Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said that unless the owner or operator of a system specifically authorizes an attempt to guess a password, anyone who does so and enters that system could be charged under the CFAA. It wouldn’t matter whether the password was obtained through insider knowledge […]

As Enzo Yaksic, a map board member and the director of the Northeastern University Atypical Homicide Research Group, told me, the project “demonstrates that there’s a whole population of unapprehended killers that are clearly out there.”

There’s no question that the rise of digital technology has hollowed out traditional media, rendering the cross-ownership ban archaic in some respects. On balance, though, the ban has been good for Boston news consumers. What comes next is likely to have a lot more to do with profits than with the public interest.

In 2014, a study conducted by Northeastern University in Boston found that several major e-commerce sites such as Home Depot and Walmart were manipulating prices based on the browsing history of individual customers.

Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law there, said it’s important for lawmakers to devise a solution to bring at least DACA participants into the health care system.

As the antitrust expert John Kwoka of Northeastern University has written, 2 more generally, about remedies aimed at constraining a company’s behavior, “They are difficult to write, difficult to enforce and at the end of the day, they don’t work.”

When machines come for our jobs, we will need skills in communication, creativity, collaboration, and complex thinking to compete, says Joseph E. Aoun, president of Northeastern University. It will take a completely different kind of education system, he says — not the current one, created at the height of the farm and factory economies — […]

Today, we are living through yet another revolution in the way that human beings work for their livelihoods—and once again, this revolution is leaving old certainties scrapped and smoldering on the ash heap of history. Once again, it is being powered by new technologies. But instead of the domesticated grain seed, the cotton gin, or […]

The great majority of mass murders, on the other hand, stem from people with a grudge. Or rather, not just a grudge, but people who see themselves as victims in life. After studying mass shooters for decades, Northeastern University criminologist, James Alan Fox, concluded that mass killers are often driven by a constellation of motivations, […]

Nestled in the depths of Hayden Hall on the expansive Northeastern University campus lies a small but innovative accelerator program. The program, IDEA, is leading the charge at Northeastern University’s Center of Entrepreneurship Education and is one of our 50 on Fire education category winners for 2017.

The Federal Communications Commission, the FCC, has voted to lift a more than 40-year-old ban on cross-ownership in media markets. It’s also loosened restrictions on owning multiple television stations in a single market. The FCC commissioners voted along party lines: three Republicans prevailing over two Democrats. In the studio to talk about all of this […]

But it’s not clear that simply adding education, particularly early in one’s life, will be enough to keep up in this new era. “If a job can be automated in the future, it will be,” Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, told me. “Very few are talking about the implications for […]