Our own research seeks to identify these problems through study and scholarship, without needing to wait for whistle-blowers to spill the beans. We leverage real users and fake accounts created by us to compile data from online services. Using these data, we try to tease out how black-box algorithms work: What data do they use? […]

Bay State employers added more than 10,000 jobs last month and more residents rejoined the labor force, the latest signs that Massachusetts’ labor market is continuing to grow — though some analysts worry the good times may soon be coming to an end. “It’s been steady, relatively strong growth,” Northeastern University economics professor Alan Clayton-Matthews […]

Many people in the United States are betting on economic opportunity in Cuba as well. Last month, a delegation that included U.S. Reps. Jim McGovern and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts visited Cuba and met with representatives from Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council to discuss opportunities in the agriculture and health sectors. Former U.S. […]

The case, now before a Suffolk Superior Court Judge, is just one example of several in recent years where Evans has disagreed with an arbitrator’s decision to reinstate a fired officer. According to data from Northeastern University journalism students, 72 percent of discipline cases within the Boston Police Department are overturned, with officers reinstated despite […]

Peter Furth, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, dissects Boston’s most dangerous intersections and shows why they are a headache for drivers.

There’s also a case to be made that better insurance coverage could have prevented the rise in opioid deaths. As Northeastern University drug policy expert Leo Beletsky pointed out and others have argued, one of the big reasons that doctors resorted to opioid painkillers to treat their patients’ pain in the first place is because […]

“Tax-exempt hospitals, tax-exempt organizations, are perceived by the public to have this higher social standard. They’re expected to behave in ways that are not profit-driven,” said Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Northeastern University in Boston, who was the lead author of the 2013 NEJM study. Those expectations […]

Carey Rappaport, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Awareness and Localization of Explosive-Related Threats Center, acknowledged that the restrictions present a real inconvenience for people, particularly those who use the devices to get work done during long flights. “But if there’s credible intelligence that terrorists are threatening us with more effective means […]

Lisa Feldman Barrett says we need to revamp our thinking on emotions. She’s a professor of psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, where she applies psychology and neuroscience research to explore how emotions arise in the brain. In her new book, How Emotions are Made, she challenges the classical view, which holds that emotions are […]

Northeastern University announced Tuesday that its new cybersecurity institute will be led by a director of engineering at Google, a coup for academia as well as a city known for losing more bright minds to the Silicon Valley tech industry than it steals back. John Manferdelli will head the Northeastern University Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, […]

One particular challenge is pinpointing hate crimes against immigrants, said Jack McDevitt, director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University. In cities such as Boston that are declared sanctuaries for immigrants, local law enforcement agencies decline to enforce immigration rules, leaving that job to the federal government. “Police don’t want to ask […]

Timothy Gagnon, an associate professor of accounting at Northeastern University, questions the effectiveness of states asking for driver’s license information. “They don’t think someone who got your Social Security [number] and name and address won’t have that?” he said sarcastically. “And I don’t like them collecting more information that they don’t need to have in […]