Reddit’s move was sparked by the same usage problems that led companies such as Getty Images to enforce their copyright rules contractually with AI vendors, said Michael Bennett, director of the education curriculum and business leaders for Responsible AI at Northeastern University.

To see whether this had any impact on the racial disparities in prison, Brennan Klein, a Northeastern University network scientist studying how different populations changed during the pandemic, and his colleagues first needed to know how many people of different races and ethnicities were incarcerated over time.

This is what Andrew Mall, an assistant professor of music at Northeastern University, describes as “mainstreaming.” 

Northeastern University Professor of Structural Engineering Mehrdad Sasani told WBZ there is a possibility something similar could happen right in our backyard.

A total of 88 people have died in the killings so far in 2023. A mass killing is defined as the slaying of four or more people other than the perpetrator, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

As Kathleen Creel, a professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, put it: “When you give it a prompt, it says, Okay, based on this prompt … this word is 60 percent most likely to be a good word to go next, and this word is 20 percent, and this word is 5 percent.”

This year’s convention came just days after mass shootings at a school in Nashville, Tennessee and at a bank last week in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter of which marked the 15th mass killing of the year in the U.S. in which four or more people were killed other than the perpetrator, according to a mass killings database maintained […]

American guns are concentrated in a tiny minority of households: just 3 percent own about half the nation’s guns, according to a 2016 Harvard and Northeastern University study.

A 2022 study from Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute estimated that 73 percent of the United States food supply is ultra-processed. 

On the surface, that seems like an easier problem to fix: if more people need a drug, simply make more of it. But “even if everyone wants to increase the production, it might just not be possible,” says Ozlem Ergun, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University and an expert in pharmaceutical […]

Op-Ed by Leo Beletsky is a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and faculty director of the Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law.

Northeastern University student Andre Neto Caetano watched NASA’s Artemis 1 launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida live on a device in the lobby of a hotel across the country in California.