“The annals of criminal law are full of cases where defendants insisted on taking the stand and paid the price,” Daniel Medwed, a professor of criminal law at Northeastern University.

Companies often worry that loosening job requirements will create a perception among customers or employees that businesses are lowering standards, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University.

Leo Beletsky, professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, sees a disconnect between “how the court was sold to policymakers and the public and what is actually happening.” “It’s a way of cosmetically improving the situation while also churning very vulnerable people through a very harmful system,” Beletsky said. The sessions seemed to […]

Leo Beletsky, executive director of Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University, plucked me from relative obscurity and then taught me how to be an academic. Or at least how to navigate within academia, going so far as to bestow the title of Research Associate upon me for my work with the lab.

A 2020 report by researchers with Google, OpenAI, Apple, Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and Northeastern University found that certain language-based algorithms can essentially be reverse-engineered to output information from their underlying training data, and that larger models are more susceptible to such attacks compared to smaller ones.

Kimberly Eddleston uses “Succession” as a teaching tool in her Northeastern University course called Examining Family Business Through Film. She says the show is a case study in how some founders feel entitled to run their companies until they die, and how some potential successors feel unworthy to take over.

Raytheon, General Electric and many of the state’s largest private colleges have also instituted the requirement, including Harvard University, Boston University and Northeastern University.

Computer scientists and doctors from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brandeis University, and Northeastern University will partner on the research, which will be funded by roughly $20 million in grants from the National Institute on Aging distributed over the next five years.

Dr. Curtis Odom is the Managing Partner at Prescient Strategists, and an Executive Professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern University law professor, joined Henry Santoro on Morning Edition to discuss the legal issues.

Remember the movie “Avatar,” where humans could take control of other bodies through technology? That’s basically what the Northeastern team is trying to achieve with their robotic avatar. “Hollywood is always a century ahead of the technology, but you know I think we’re catching up,” said Professor Taskin Padir, who leads the project.

Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University, called the decision a “win” that shows the need for ongoing privacy advocacy and critiques of tech companies.