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 […]

Though Gerald Herman had a nearly endless list of interests, his career was always his favorite hobby. A prolific reader and a charismatic professor, he jumped at every opportunity to instill his love of history in others, whether through the classes he taught at Northeastern University or while visiting the Imperial War Museums in London […]

Political science Prof. Costas Panagopoulos of Northeastern University said lawmakers are playing a dangerous game by joining Trump’s attacks against the FBI.

To learn more about these mind-boggling crimes, we turned to Enzo Yaksic, co-director of Northeastern University’s Atypical Homicide Research Group. The AHRG is an active network of 150 researchers, law enforcement professionals and practitioners organized to address the societal issue of serial and mass homicide.

“You don’t want to be a meme the next day. And you don’t want to have GIFs of you gulping water over and over again,” said Northeastern University professor Alan Schroeder, a reference to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s awkward water break during the GOP’s 2013 official response.

Meanwhile, one sports researcher said that if true, the allegations of withholding food and water as punishment for poor performances is an “egregious” and ineffective way of coaching. But there have been “millions” of variations of the type of behavior alleged against three Andover High School hockey coaches, said Dan Lebowitz of Northeastern University’s Center […]