Dan Schawbel spoke to Joseph E. Aoun, author of Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, about how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact higher education, the future role of students and teachers, how AI will impact entry-level jobs, the role of human connection in a world driven by technology, the relevant of liberal […]

The study’s researchers, who hail from Columbia Business School, New York University and Northeastern University, say one of the responses to these kinds of privacy issues could be a “cloaking device” that would protect users from having advertisers make assumptions based on their likes.

According to Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, if companies help cyber criminals make money off hacks, they will only continue.

David Choffnes is an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University. He joins The Takeaway to discuss how the FCC’s proposed deregulation would affect individual consumers and small businesses.

Market forces are, in part, responsible for the rise in generic drug prices, said Todd Brown, pharmacy instructor at Northeastern University. “Some of the price increases are due to generic companies that have decided not to make a product,” Brown said. “So all of the sudden when there’s a shortage… you know the price will […]

“While some online users may benefit from being targeted based on inferences of their personal characteristics, others may find such inferences unsettling,” the study’s authors, who hail from Columbia Business School, New York University and Northeastern University, wrote.

WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed tells Morning Edition that the bill aims to address a real problem but falls short of reaching a solution.

According to Northeastern University Professor and Independent Pharmacists Association Executive Director Todd Brown, pharmacies are required to keep a perpetual inventory of drugs with a high abuse potential and verify the count every ten days.

“He had that maniacal look that was always so striking,” said James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston, calling Manson the most notorious killer of all time. “Manson was memorable: his voice, his appearance, his mannerisms, as well as his crimes and the ‘crazy Charlie’ act he put on.”

“Network providers have business incentives to make their media products more desirable than their competitors, like Netflix or YouTube,” David Choffnes, an assistant professor in Northeastern’s College of Computer and Information Science, said in an university publication earlier this year. “One way to do that is to slow down or block Netflix or YouTube, making […]

“No more than 1 percent of all homicides are committed by serial killers, but on the other hand you’re talking about a very small number of guys who are responsible for a large body count,” said Jack Levin, a renowned criminologist at Northeastern University.

Research from Northeastern University has found that people who felt grateful for little, everyday things were more patient and better able to make sensible decisions, compared to those who didn’t feel very gracious on a day-to-day basis. When 105 undergraduate students were asked to choose between receiving a small amount of money immediately or a […]