A husband, father, intern on his first day: How an Illinois city is remembering workplace shooting one year on In 2019, the year of the Aurora shooting, the U.S. witnessed more mass killings than any other year dating to at least the 1970s, according to a former database compiled by the Associated Press, USA TODAY and Northeastern University.
Ars Technica Researchers have already tested YouTube’s algorithms for political bias Motivated by the long-running argument in Washington, DC, computer scientists at Northeastern University decided to investigate political bias in YouTube’s comment moderation.
Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop Two Northeastern University researchers, David Choffnes and Daniel Dubois, recently played 120 hours of television for an audience of smart speakers to see what activates the devices.
The Cut Domestic Violence Survivors Want Legal Protections, Not Platitudes The rate of murders committed by domestic partners has risen significantly, according to a Northeastern University study released in 2019, and most victims are women.
Business Insider Chinstrap penguins are starving to death in Antarctica as the temperature hits record highs. Researchers from Northeastern and Stony Brook universities are using drones and a machine learning program to measure the losses.
Amy Klobuchar’s ‘surge’ proves media still has a ‘woman’ problem The coverage they do get tends to be more negative: Northeastern University School of Journalism last spring analyzed almost 1,400 news articles from mainstream outlets and found “female candidates running for president are consistently being described in the media more negatively than their male counterparts.”
Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good “Year by year there have been improvements in forecasting models and the way they are combined to provide forecasts,” said physicist Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University, a leading infectious-disease modeler.
Los Angeles Magazine The Dark History of Quarantines in the United States Often times, quarantines are used by politicians to show they’re taking a problem seriously, regardless of whether research finds them effective, says Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor.
International Business Times McClatchy, Second-largest US Newspaper Group, In Bankruptcy Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who follows the sector, said McClatchy’s woes follow “the narrative that we’ve seen with corporate chain ownership” by accumulating debt that kept it from investing in future technologies.
Scientific American Here’s How Computer Models Simulate the Future Spread of New Coronavirus Alessandro Vespignani, a physicist and director of the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems at Northeastern University, leads a team that is simulating the novel coronavirus’s spread using official air-travel data and predicted commuting patterns among census populations.
A ‘slap in the face’ to federal prosecutors? Specialists weigh in on Boston Calling decision Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said judges seldom vacate a jury’s decision. “To some extent, it undermines the function of the jury ― that’s the fear at least,” he said.
The Public Writing Life: the Venue, the Pitch, and the Fee For insights on how to connect with editors, I reached out to Liz Bucar, a professor of philosophy and religion at Northeastern University and project lead of the Luce-funded Sacred Writes: Public Scholarship on Religion.
