“From a manufacturing standpoint, it’s never a good idea to give 100% of your capacity to one product or one customer,” says Nada Sanders, professor of supply chain management at Northeastern University. “It’s very risky. One of the tenants of supply chain management is to diversify.”

“They end up extracting all this data from us to make these predictions that they think are going to enhance their bottom line,” explained Ari Ezra Waldman, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

The streaming site also has to decide whether offensive words are allowable elsewhere on its app, where songs with racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant messages are available, said John Wihbey, a Northeastern University professor and specialist in emerging technologies. “There’s some real self-examination to be doing beyond Joe,” Wihbey said Sunday. “This is a big moment […]

Fifty-four percent of parents of children under 5 said they were likely or somewhat likely to get their children a COVID-19 vaccination, down from 62 percent in September and 58 percent in November, according to the survey released Friday by the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public’s Policy Preferences Across States, a joint project of […]

Reuse of venues is beginning to become almost an expectation, according to David Fannon, architecture and engineering professor at Northeastern University, who has studied the afterlives of Olympic venues in Rio de Janeiro and other former host cities.

John Basl, associate director of AI and Data Ethics Initiatives at the Ethics Institute of Northeastern University, says the controversy is another instance of a “broader kind of failure” in artificial intelligence.

Deborah Ramirez is a professor at Northeastern University School of Law. 

“Donors cannot deploy the tests until WHO say it’s OK to deploy, and countries themselves don’t want to use the tests until they get that guidance,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University who advises the WHO and others on equitable access to COVID-19 medicines and tests.

“Decriminalization holds a lot of promise and the Commonwealth should absolutely pursue it,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University associate professor of law and health sciences who has been critical of Baker’s response to the crisis. “It is necessary, but not sufficient.”

And every time that the pool of vaccinated people expands, so does economic activity, said Alicia Modestino, an economics and public affairs professor at Northeastern.

“The number of 3G devices has been decreasing steadily,” Tommaso Melodia, the director of Northeastern’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things, told Recode. “Now it’s at the point where carriers are starting to say, ‘It doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to continue to use these precious frequency channels for 3G. Let’s turn […]

Dan Koloski, director of professional studies at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute in Portland, said students at both the institute and within the University of Maine System already are working closely with the Maine Space Grant Consortium. Roux students last year explored using satellite data for forestry, aquaculture and weather related industries. He believes that investing […]