Boston Herald Sochi sites, security fears rise with days to go Lingering fears in Sochi about terrorism and basic preparations just days ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies indicate the International Olympic Committee needs to overhaul its process for choosing host countries, experts tell the Herald. “The IOC has no internal expertise on security matters, so they really do have to rely on the […]
Gizmodo These geographically accurate subway maps reveal where the trains really go It’s no secret that subway maps are mere approximations of geography. Designed for maximum readability, they map the subway system onto stylized curves and evenly spaced stops. Still, the images of these familiar maps distorted by geographic accuracy are more striking than I even imagined. These maps were created by Benjamin M. Schmidt, an assistant […]
Medium Generation Brand Student-led startups at Northeastern’s IDEA Venture Accelerator are given coaching, community, and funding. Max Kaye is the CEO, a position coordinated through Northeastern’s esteemed Co-op Program. He’s an undergraduate finance major, but sounds more like the startup-world people I encounter in mixers and meet-ups—passionate about young innovative companies, recognizes a huge need for change in […]
Big Companies Join Obama in Initiative to Help Long-Term Unemployed Studies have shown that, deliberately or not, companies tend to look askance at applicants who have been without a job for many months. Researchers at Northeastern University sent out 4,800 fictitious, computer-generated résumés and found that those from people out of work for six months or longer rarely got responses. Similarly, scholars from the University […]
Men's Journal Underwater robots – ocean technologies: AUVs featuring Fetch and Robolobster A lot of marine scientists are more than happy to spend time in the ocean, placing instruments, taking samples, and getting a firsthand look around. Mark Patterson, an affable Harvard-educated professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, takes it a bit farther. He’s lived on the seabed for a grand total of 87 […]
Fox 25 Home offices becoming more popular [VIDEO] Ten percent of the work force works at least part-time from home.
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State and national economies poised for growth In Massachusetts, unemployment also remains high — 7 percent in December, compared with 6.7 percent nationally. But Alan-Clayton Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor and one of authors of the UMass report, said he expects those rates to come down. He said the economy appears headed into a “classical recovery phase,” in which increased consumer […]
WGBH Obama’s Subtle SOTU Intent: Put Congress In Its Place President Obama’s fifth State of the Union speech wasn’t his best, but it may have been his most entertaining. Freed from the illusion that Republicans will ever work with him, the president last night was upbeat, funny and slashingly partisan. He paid tribute to House Speaker John Boehner as “the son of a barkeep,” forcing a pained […]
Bloomberg Businessweek To Meet President Obama’s Jobs Goal, Involve All Colleges In last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama announced a new effort to help Americans get “the skills employers need and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now” by increasing apprenticeships and community college training programs. The president is absolutely right to focus on using higher education to increase […]
Boston Magazine Next Stop: Olympics Believe it or not, the experts say this idea might actually work. Professor Stephanie Pollack, of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, says that while we often vaguely discuss fixing the MBTA in the future, tying the project to the Olympics would focus our attention. “If you’re going to host […]
TechTarget Microsoft provides data center ‘blueprints’ to Open Compute Project Microsoft’s open designs included in patent applications? In mid-December, a Microsoft patent application for a blade server design surfaced, showing a design similar to the specs released to the OCP. The patent has yet to be granted. When asked whether that patent is the same design it offered to the open community this week, Microsoft said it […]