WGBH Speedy trial cases go before state’s highest court In the first week of every month between September and May, the state Supreme Judicial Court hears a number of oral arguments on cases that have made it to the highest levels of the state’s criminal justice system. WGBH’s Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition to break down some of […]
The political potential of millennials remains untapped because they don’t vote. Will Parkland change that? While shooting incidents involving students have decreased in the last two decades — according to researchers at Northeastern University, four times the number of children were killed in schools in the early 1990s — young organizers hope to harness society’s heightened fear of school shootings to make gun reform an issue that could make or […]
Bill Cosby faces his retrial in the #MeToo era “If the obstacles of the prosecution at the first trial related to the credibility of the survivor and why Bill Cosby would act this way, then I think the #MeToo movement has provided a cultural context and validation of Constand’s account,” Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, […]
AP analysis: Blacks largely left out among high-paying jobs Boston — where King had deep ties, earning his doctorate and meeting his wife — has a history of racial discord. Eight years after King’s assassination, at the height of turbulent school desegregation, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph from an anti-busing rally at City Hall showed a white man attacking a black bystander with an American […]
Live Nation rules music ticketing, some say with threats “It has now been eight years since the merger and the world does not look a lot different,” said John E. Kwoka Jr., a professor of economics at Northeastern University and a longtime critic of the merger.
The Christian Science Monitor As flooding frequency increases, more US cities opt for green infrastructure For other cities considering taking a lead from the likes of Milwaukee, it’s a matter of approach, according to Annalisa Onnis-Hayden, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University. “Welcome the water, but find a way to use those spaces as mitigation. It looks a lot better than building walls around the city.”
Newsday Is it smart to have artificial intelligence? A recent poll by Northeastern University and the Gallup organization found that 85 percent of Americans use one AI application or another — navigation, streaming, personal assistance, “smart” home devices like “self-learning” thermostats, that sort of thing. Of those surveyed, 79 percent said AI had a “very or mostly positive impact on their lives so […]
Click by click, drowning in data, we Internet ‘users’ are being used The Cambridge Analytica debacle reveals that the system worked exactly as intended. We never stood a chance, writes Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.
PBS NewsHour The problem with overusing antibiotics Dr. Kim Lewis, co-founder of biotechnology company NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, Director of Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, and lead scientist on the team that discovered the promising new antibiotic Teixobactin being developed at NovoBiotic.
U.S. Attorney investigating Mass. prison officials’ treatment of inmates with addictions Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, welcomed the investigation and said discontinuing the use of addiction medication for those in state custody is “barbaric,” especially for those who are civilly committed to addiction treatment.
Under Armour says 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts hacked “Email addresses are valuable for spammers because the attackers would know that active, real users are behind these addresses,” said Engin Kirda, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. “The dark web is usually where data like this is sold to the highest bidder.”
Buzzfeed 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal app had their data stolen by a third party Hashed passwords, however, are still valuable information for hackers, according to Northeastern University Northeastern Professor Engin Kirda. “Having the hashes means that attackers can launch offline brute-force guessing attacks against these passwords and potentially crack many of them as users are often notoriously bad in choosing good passwords,” Kirda said in a statement to BuzzFeed […]