A few years ago, Timothy Bickmore, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, developed an artificial-intelligence program to help low-income patients at Boston Medical Center prepare for their return home from the hospital. The virtual nurse, alternately called Louise or Elizabeth, was embodied as an animated figure on a screen. It began by asking patients whether […]

Filling in for Jim Braude on WGBH’s Greater Boston, Adam Reilly asked me and Northeastern University’s Dan Kennedy whether the Globe should be reporting this. “People are struggling to make sense out of what happened, how serious it is and what the Globe should do about it,” said Kennedy. “What Linda and John Henry might be […]

In fact, a study from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University showed teenagers who work while in high school have higher incomes later. Another study, by a team of neuroscientists, found people are much more careful when they manage their own money — such as that earned from a summer job — than they are when they handle other […]

Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University, in his book Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (MIT Press, 2017), has suggested a complementary learning model that he calls “humanics.” It blends technical, social, and data skills, and, in the process, develops “higher-order mental skills” like critical thinking, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and cultural agility, enabling people […]

Although it was unclear yesterday what motivated the Santa Fe High School gunman to kill at least 10 people and wound at least 10 others, the “overwhelming majority” of school shooters are not mentally ill, said Jack Levin, co-director of Northeastern University’s Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict.

“It was important to do things, to make a statement, and I was going to be a part of it,” said King, who lives in Hyde Park and has been a math professor at Northeastern University for 37 years.

Many experts — like James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University and author of several books on school violence — say that sworn law enforcement officers are the only people who should carry guns in schools.

“The nominal price of a ticket for a particular performance is usually established by the artist and the manager, sometimes with input from the promoter,” writes John E. Kwoka, a professor at Northeastern University who has studied and written on the concert industry, in a published study.

Because superhero blockbusters demand that philosophers must also pulverize, Thanos matches his big brain with bigger purple muscles. He doesn’t just look the brutish part. Based on a recent “whimsical by design” analysis, Northeastern University engineering assistant professor Steven Cranford calculated that Thanos is powerful enough to dead-lift the RMS Titanic.

Knake, a senior fellow for cyber policy at CFR and a senior research scientist at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, noted that the Department of Defense already uses such a network for sharing intelligence with cleared defense contractors on threats to their companies. This system, he says, could be replicated as a way to share […]

Nevertheless, it would be wrong to ignore the fact that an increasing number of women do find guns empowering; women are the fastest-growing gun ownership demographic. According to a study from Harvard and Northeastern University, gun ownership among American men dropped from 42% in 1994 to 32% in 2015, while female ownership increased from 9% to 12%.

Yet the reality is that school shootings are extraordinarily rare — and, our perceptions notwithstanding, have actually been declining since the 1990s, according to James Alan Fox, professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University, who has analyzed school shootings nationwide. This “is not an epidemic,” Fox told the university’s news service. Though […]