A strong whiff of won’t-get-fooled again permeated much of the post-speech analysis. Last year, Trump’s first joint address to Congress was greeted by rapturous reviews. According to Michael Wolff’s book “Fire and Fury,” First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner saw it as “a total reset.” Perhaps no one was more smitten that night than Van Jones, a liberal commentator […]

A new Gallup poll from Northeastern University asked  3,297 U.S. adults just that. Surveyed by mail, they were questioned about their concerns and hopes for AI. One particular line of questioning caught my attention. It asked whether a universal basic income should be established to help Americans who’ve lost their jobs to AI.  In this chart by Column Five, […]

In other classes, 3-D printing can challenge students in similar ways. Erika Boeckler, assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, spurred one of her graduate students to create physical representations of pattern poems. The goal, Boeckler said during a panel earlier this month at the Modern Language Association meeting in New York, is to help […]

“Internationally, Naloxone is available for less than a dollar and that is the kind of price that we should be demanding, because the product is generic, cheap to make, and we need it to really make a difference,” said Leo Beletsky, a law and health sciences professor at Northeastern University. “Obviously in the U.S. you’re […]

Industry observers said the boot-camp space has gotten more competitive after its initial expansion, which in turn exposed unsustainable business models. And shrinking for-profit college companies had purchased stakes in Dev Bootcamp (owned by Kaplan) and the Iron Yard (partially owned by the Apollo Education Group). At the same time, several traditional universities have launched […]

A new poll, released on Wednesday by Northeastern University and Gallup, examines Americans’ attitudes toward artificial intelligence, a force that could upend the employment market and send people back to college to retrain for new jobs. Whose jobs are at risk and who pays for that retraining are open questions for Americans, depending on where […]

Americans don’t fear artificial intelligence as much as is commonly believed, a new study by Gallup and Northeastern University has found. Officials at Northeastern say that it shows higher education should be more involved in training people for the artificial intelligence world.

These three “iconic” companies collaborating will attract “a lot of attention and it already has,” said Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University. “It signals a certain frustration with the status quo and the existing health care system,” he said.

“No one will be held accountable for murder,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst who has been following the case. Jurors cleared Cadden and Chin on all murder counts but convicted them on the lesser charges. Last year, a judge sentenced Cadden to nine years in prison. Federal prosecutors have […]

“The tobacco companies are indeed infamous for their scorched-earth litigation tactics,” said Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and tobacco industry critic who is not involved in the case.  “This is, indeed, a huge list.  They are certainly within their rights in getting medical records from his treating physicians related to his cancer, […]

The reason these “are easy things for the administration to do,” said Rachel Rosenbloom, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in immigration policy, is “they don’t require Congress.”

Iwasa isn’t the only scientist using cutting-edge animation techniques to train the next generation of researchers looking for cures to HIV, dengue virus and Ebola. Teams from the University of Washington in Seattle and Northeastern University in Boston run Foldit, a crowdsourced computer game in which hundreds of thousands of players, a mixture of those with […]