Dr. Polli, who worked as a neuroscientist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Pymetrics’s algorithms have been audited by experts from Northeastern University to ensure they don’t inadvertently discriminate.

Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the current bill “has actually gutted some of the soul” of the Massachusetts Information Privacy Act. He said that earlier legislation was far better in putting “substantive limits” on the type of data that companies could collect and sell, whereas the new […]

“There’s been a lot of criminal charges brought against various cogs in the wheel of Big Pharma over their supposed role in the overdose crisis, and corporate executives have been insulated from that,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes on the law’s impact on public health.

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined host Henry Santoro on Morning Edition to discuss highlights from this month’s docket. 

The COVID States Project includes Harvard Kennedy School, Northeastern University, Rutgers University and others. Its previous surveys have looked at the use of at-home COVID tests, mask use, vaccines, as well as contentious school board elections and the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

These concerns track with another recent report from Northeastern University that found that more than half of C-suite executives were concerned about their workforce’s ability to be creative and innovative in a primarily remote work environment.

Spotify has shown more transparency in the past few days than it ever has about how it deals with questionable content, and the new policy is a good first step, says John Wihbey, a Northeastern University professor and specialist in emerging technologies. Yet it’s not clear that anyone has effectively dealt with the issue of […]

Sometimes the deterioration is minor enough that the bridge will be put in the queue for repair and the frequency of inspections will increase, said Jerome Hajjar, professor and department chair at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering. “When a bridge is added to the queue, it can be years before there’s funding to take care […]

“It would be a bitter irony if Sarah Palin, of all people, proves to be the vehicle through which the media are taken down,” wrote Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy on Boston’s WGBH last week. Ironic, he explained to me later, because of the emptiness of Palin’s past anti-media rhetoric and the overall weakness of her suit.

A study by researchers at Northeastern University and Imperial College London found data from TVs and smart devices was sent to Google’s ad business and to Netflix, even if people didn’t have Netflix.

As of December 2021, the PFAS Project Lab at Northeastern University had documented per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil or water at 1,781 sites, with groundwater at 1,385 of those sites contaminated with the man-made chemicals.

“The reason this is not a top priority is this is invisible work that gets done by generation after generation of American women,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University who has done extensive research on the impact of the pandemic on women.