New Scientist Inside China’s plan to give every citizen a character score Christo Wilson, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, suggests that SCS may spawn a kind of black market in which people can pay for fake online profile details which will boost their scores, much like existing grey areas in which social network followers can be “bought” and “Likes” on posts paid for. “The […]
Whether a job requires a degree may shift with the economy But employers’ expectations can also ebb and flow with the state of the labor market. Beginning in 2007, firms posting job listings in a variety of industries began requesting bachelor’s degrees or multiple years of experience where previously neither was required.Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University, calls this cyclical phenomenon, in which an […]
Clinton crushed it? Not for this debate watcher n 1987, when I was a senior in college, my debate partner and I won the National Debate Championship, and I finished first individually. Before and during law school, I coached high school and college debate. Now, my son competes, and I spend many weekend days judging high school debate. Last night, I watched every […]
Robust growth in jobs, wages forecast in Mass. “Massachusetts is experiencing a burst of economic growth reminiscent of the 1990s,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and an author of the report. The tech boom of the late 1990s fueled one of the most prosperous periods in the state’s modern history as the unemployment rate fell below 3 percent — until […]
University-run boot camps offer students marketable skills — but not course credit Level, a venture that offers students courses in data analytics, has a motto of sorts. It’s written in large letters acrossthe program’s website: “Real skills. Real experience. Two months.” The motto sounds a lot like the boot-camp style of education offered by companies like General Assembly. But Level, a product of Northeastern University, is neither […]
Boston Herald Democratic debate likely to be ‘Sanders & Clinton Show’ “It’s become a little bit of a mini-series, and if you watched the first couple Republican debates, the next installment is the Democrats,” Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University debate expert, said of tonight’s five-person CNN showdown headlined by Clinton and Sanders. “It probably mostly will be the Sanders and Clinton Show, but some of that […]
Police say they want to aid, not arrest, addicts Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, called the police involvement “a positive development” but cautioned that officers need the tools to fulfill this role effectively. Police academy training does not address the issue, and officers’ success at getting someone into treatment doesn’t win them a promotion, he noted. “Their […]
Health: Schoolchildren get into stand-up act Early research into sitting too much confirmed that being sedentary is bad for the body. Now, scientists are analyzing the best ways to break up the sitting habit, said Dinesh John, an assistant professor in the Health Sciences Department at Northeastern University in Boston. It’s not yet be shown how much people should stand or […]
Democratic primary debates vs. Republican primary debates After two history-making Republican debates, what can we expect from the Democrats? Five contenders–Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb–will take the stage on Tuesday in a match that is likely to feel very different from the Republican extravaganzas of August and September. Some key points of comparison: VIEWERSHIP. Each of […]
Yahoo! A new era in women’s hockey After graduating with a degree in broadcast journalism from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn., in 2010, Dani Rylan began studying for a master’s in sports leadership at Northeastern University. While there, she skated on the Huskies hockey team that won the 2012 Beanpot Tournament. Rylan, whose father worked in marketing for the Tampa […]
Haggen struggles after trying to digest Albertsons stores “It’s not easy to get these things right,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, who studies such efforts. “And it’s a bigger stretch when you’re trying to turn a company into something much larger than it was before. Here it failed spectacularly.” The FTC defends its approval of the Haggen deal, saying […]
Boston’s three-deckers remain a mainstay, but bigger buildings are on the rise Dillon said few new three-deckers are expected to be built in the future, though the city encourages people to live in existing ones by by offering home repair and downpayment assistance programs. “In the last 50 years, none of that [triple-decker] housing has been built. Instead, it has been high-rise apartments, especially luxury ones,” said […]