“The reason for data collection is almost always monetization,” David Choffnes, an associate professor in computer science at Northeastern University, told Recode. 

WGBH News Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu to discuss the claims being raised by Tsarnaev’s defense team. The transcript below has been edited for clarity.

Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews, a senior contributing editor of MassBenchmarks, told the Joint Ways and Means Committee that he expects state tax revenues to total $31.804 billion in fiscal 2021 – a 3.5% rate of growth.

WGBH News Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed joined Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu to discuss the claims being raised by Tsarnaev’s defense team.

Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews, a senior contributing editor of MassBenchmarks, told the Joint Ways and Means Committee that he expects state tax revenues to total $31.804 billion in fiscal 2021 – a 3.5% rate of growth.

“It is unlike any other shipworm, both in its appearance and its unusual habits, and this was apparent from the very first moment I laid eyes on it,” says marine biologist Dan Distel, executive director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University and senior author of the June paper describing the animal in […]

“We set out to say, how can we combine info about food and disease causation,” said Albert-László Barabási, a network scientist at Northeastern University in Boston.

“Our work shows that just getting rid of microtargeting isn’t going to solve the problem,” said Alan Mislove, one of the paper’s authors and a computer scientist at Northeastern. “Facebook will deliver the ad to the subset of users that Facebook thinks is interested.”

“Computer science is one of the largest growing fields with an important impact on day-to-day life for everybody,” says Carla Brodley, dean of Northeastern University’s

When Gallup and Northeastern University asked Americans to rate the seriousness of various threats to jobs earlier this year, 56% of Republicans said immigration is a major threat, compared to just 5% of Democrats.

Alexander DePaoli, an associate teaching professor of marketing at Northeastern, and his colleagues at the University of Miami and Northwestern University, conducted a series of experiments that provoked anger in various test subjects — making them play impossible-to-win games, having them recount a particularly anger-inducing moment in their lives, or DePaoli’s preferred method: “Just asking people about […]

“It appears [the health department] has finally heard the complaints and decided to release some measure of information. It’s long overdue,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University who specializes in drug policy and harm reduction.