Legally, says Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at Northeastern University and co-director of the school’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity, the DNC hacking indictment is “boring” and unremarkable for the charges brought under the CFAA, despite how broad they are. But its technical details should serve as a “wake-up call” to “every” political campaign in […]

Designing protections for outdoor workers has been slow in part due to their lack of political clout, said Sharon Harlan, a professor of health sciences and sociology at Northeastern University in Boston. “If executives were sitting in their offices dropping off from heat exhaustion, probably something would be done more quickly,” she told the Thomson […]

Laurie Edwards, an associate professor of English at Northeastern University, knows what that’s like. All her life, she has struggled to breathe. She suffers from a chronic but rare lung disease that was never properly diagnosed as she was growing up, with doctor after doctor telling her that her symptoms were all in her head […]

Scholars’ skepticism about Wikipedia also stems from its community-authorship model, said Amanda Rust, a digital-humanities librarian at Northeastern University. Not all academics felt that way about Wikipedia in its fledgling days, but a critical mass perceived the online encyclopedia as a threat, Rust said.

“It’s surprising to me that this company, which has had such high profile privacy failures and is sitting on such a large body of personal data had yet to hire a CPO or face significant public pressure to do so,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University.

The report, conducted by the Boston Area Research Initiative, found that Boston’s algorithm for assigning students to schools is restricting access to high-quality schools for many minority students, and that high-quality schools are disproportionately grouped in the city’s historically white neighborhoods. The findings are reflective of the racial and socioeconomic segregation evident in the city’s geography.

The joint North American team made up of engineering students from Memorial University and Northeastern University in Boston was the first group to ever run an air-bearing model, meaning they levitated their pod by pushing air from the bottom — something that was previously only an idea.

StreetScan started as a research project at Northeastern University and became a private company partly owned by the university in 2015, according to Chief Growth Officer Jon-Erik Dillon. He said the company has assessed sidewalks and roads in numerous Massachusetts communities, including Beverly, Brockton, Chelsea, Concord, Everett, Kingston, Newton, Revere, Sharon and Winthrop.

This surge in geotargeted ads is raising the ire of privacy advocates, who say marketers can learn far more about us from our location data than we may realize. David Choffnes, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, has found that some retailers’ apps, running in the background of our phones, collect the […]

“It’s hard to compare districts with different boundaries,” said Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University. “But I will say, it creates challenges for incumbents or representatives just because a constituency that they had been cultivating is shaken up in such a way that they have to appeal to new voters and […]

Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies at Northeastern University, discusses how Israel’s right-wing coalition government narrowly passed a highly controversial law that had been years in the making.

“I think that he is definitely viewing this as, ‘This is emphasis. You are going to have to slow down and read this. You are going to have to pay attention to this,’” said Cynthia Baron, the academic director of digital media programs in Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies.