Success will be determined with help from researchers at MIT’s J-PAL and researchers from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University to evaluate the program with the goal of making it a national model, he said.

If we want to use technology to help people learn, we have to provide information in the way the human mind evolved to receive it. We have to speak the mind’s language, and that includes the language not only of information but also of social cues. Failing to do so will continue to artificially limit […]

The $38.5 million project, originally approved under Governor Deval Patrick but expanded by the Baker administration, is funded by a combination of state and federal funds. Nearby Northeastern University is also building a footbridge over the tracks as part of the project, connecting the two sides of its campus. The project, scheduled to be completed […]

David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and author of The Truth About Trust, says trust is an “evolving thing that ebbs and flows.” It’s important for all leaders to actively work on building trust with their teams, regardless of any issues of resentment.

But it’s not just structures that skew in favor of Confederate history in the South. Two new maps created by Caroline Klibanoff, a digital public historian at Northeastern University, document street names. In the first, she tallies the number of streets named after Confederate leaders alongside those celebrating prominent figures from the civil rights era.

Researchers at Northeastern University have made a major advance in developing significantly smaller antennas, hundreds of times tinier than currently existing versions. The development is significant because, in a world in which virtually every piece of portable wireless communications technology has shrunk over time, antennas have stubbornly remained the same size.

It may be that someone steeped in Islamic traditions would find Elizabeth Bucar’s exploration of style among Muslim women in Iran, Turkey and Indonesia simplistic. Indeed, the main message in her book, “Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress,” is quite basic: Fashion among Muslim women, whether they are fully cloaked in a chador or wearing […]

“You can do a significant amount of valuable networking without ever making a cold call,” says Lynne Sarikas, director of Northeastern University’s MBA Career Center. “Start with a known instead of an unknown to demystify the process. This helps a shy person over the hurdle.”

Just how intelligent does a machine have to be to qualify as a robot, though? Lots of systems take in information from the outside world, process it, and then output an action—take the autopilot software that flies commercial planes. Hanumant Singh, a roboticist at Northeastern University, says a robot is “a system that exhibits ‘complex’ […]

“Oftentimes we get on a hamster wheel of running from one conversation or meeting to the next. The result is a lack of work-life balance and, more detrimentally, a lack of focus. Inevitably, this leads to meeting fatigue. To stop this in its tracks, ask yourself what your contribution is to this meeting or this […]

Christo Wilson, a lead researcher on Uber surge pricing and an assistant professor at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, says that “it is immediately obvious that airports are special.” He argues that pricing algorithms at airports are “clearly different than anywhere else” thanks to the bursty traffic patterns and different […]

There’s been so much written and said about free speech and the lack thereof at Saturday’s rally on the Boston Common that the big picture is in danger of being lost. So let me try to bring it back into focus. An estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people turned out not to protest what a few right-wingers had […]