As Ontario pilots a basic-income program, support for the concept is growing. For instance, in a recent Northeastern University/Gallup survey, 48 per cent of Americans supported the implementation of a universal basic income, up from 12 per cent in a poll 10 years ago.

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute and Northeastern University may have figured out how to beat ad discrimination on Facebook once and for all. After a string of alarming ProPublica stories, Facebook has had trouble keeping advertisers from targeting ads to specific races, potentially violating discrimination laws around housing and employment.

“He would be one of the most remarkable personalities in science in the last century, there’s no question about that,” said Pran Nath, a physicist at Northeastern University. “He was amazing, a human dynamo.” Hawking spoke at a conference at Northeastern University at Nath’s invitation in 1991, and spent the day giving an in-depth technical […]

“Schools are safer today than they had been in previous decades,” says James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology at Northeastern University who has studied the phenomenon of mass murder since the 1980s.

Now, veteran media critic and Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy offers a deep dive into this current nail-biting news environment with “The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century,” as did the Hearsts and Pulitzers of another era.

Northeastern University Criminology Professor James Alan Fox argued that the new age guidelines probably won’t affect women between the ages of 18 to 20, especially in the state of Florida.

The researchers, from Northeastern University, said the review yielded significant findings worth further examination, but they also noted that the low number of officers with cameras in the study, and the relatively low number of complaints against Boston police compared with other departments in general, could make it difficult to say whether body cameras would […]

Twitter’s cooperation with the study was a good start. In a perspective paper published alongside the study, David Lazer of Northeastern University and Matthew Baum of the Harvard Kennedy School are now calling for more cooperation among social media companies and academics to get a handle on the anything-but-fake problem.

After being battered by story after story of AI’s coming domination — the singularity, if you will — it shouldn’t be surprising that 58% of Americans today are worried about losing their jobs to “new technology” like automation and artificial intelligence according to a newly released Northeastern University / Gallup poll. That fear outranks immigration […]

Identifying basic emotions in others — like fear, sadness or anger — seems instinctive, but psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett says we’re doing more guesswork than we think. Lisa Feldman Barrett is Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She has studied emotion in the brain for […]

“We can’t shy away from phrases because they’ve been somehow weaponized. We have to stick to our guns and say there is a real phenomenon here,” said David Lazer, one of the authors of the essay and a professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University.

More than half of Americans (58%) believe that artificial intelligence poses a greater threat to U.S. jobs over the next 10 years than immigration and offshoring (42%,) according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey.