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 […]

“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.

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.”

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

“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.”

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 […]

Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the company’s data usage policies. He speaks with Bloomberg’s June Grasso.

Gish, who is 20 years old, is currently enrolled as a music industry major at Northeastern University in Boston. As a student there, she is required to alternate coursework with full-time internships, and at the moment, the rising bedroom pop sensation is living in an apartment in Manhattan while she interns in the A&R department […]

In one study, for instance, researchers at Northeastern University recruited a group of volunteers and, on the basis of responses they had given to some questions, informed them they were either habitual “overestimators” or “underestimators.” (In reality, the feedback was fake). Next they introduced the volunteers to another person, who, unbeknownst to them, was cooperating with […]