FBI steps into case of gay candidate’s homicide “If you look at state-by-state comparisons, you’ll see states … the Northeast region reports hundreds of hate crimes yearly,” said Jack Levin, a leading hate crime expert at Northeastern University in Boston. “Does that mean there are more hate crimes in Massachusetts than in Mississippi? Absolutely not.” Massachusetts reported 346 hate crimes in 2011. But […]
Phys.org Through a sensor, clearly: Complex systems made observable A complex system can, in principle, be observable – that is, the system’s complete internal state can be reconstructed from its outputs, which would ostensibly involve describing in complete quantitative detail all of its internal state variables at once. In an actual experiment, however, such measurement is typically beyond our reach, and so is limited […]
Ever-Tighter U.S. Abortion Limits Probe Boundary of Roe v. Wade Wendy Parmet, associate dean at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, said in an e-mail she isn’t surprised by the Arkansas law because it is “the next step in a trend.” “What will be interesting is whether by going this far, anti-abortion opponents in Arkansas have overplayed their hand,” Parmet said in an e-mail.
MIS Asia Hot security skills of 2013 It will always be extremely important to be able to communicate with diverse audiences, says Young. Not only must CSOs make complex security issues understandable to the enterprise at large, they must also make it clear how important security risk, particularly digital risk management, is to the executive suite’s agenda. David Luzzi, executive director of […]
U.S. News & World Report How Ashley Judd Can Overcome Daily Caller’s ‘Sexist’ Hollywood Stigma “Their job is being able to sell a role or a message and to do that you have to be able to articulate yourself and capitalize on your personality,” says Alan Schroeder, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and author of Celebrity-in-Chief: How Show Business Took Over the White House. “Innately, [entertainers] have a […]
Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? Of course, the benefits wouldn’t accrue to the wearer. Google would sell the data (suitably anonymised, of course). And your smartphone already provides a huge amount of detail about you. Song Chaoming, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, has been analysing mobile phone records (including which base stations the phone connects to) and has […]
5 Questions for Northeastern’s Peter Stokes Dr. Peter Stokes is currently the executive director of postsecondary innovation in the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University. Many of you probably got to know Peter during his tenure (almost 14 years!) in various leadership roles at Eduventures. Why interview Peter when we can skip the middleman and read exactly what is on his […]
Hardening Our Defenses Against Cyberwarfare A common military tactic by which an attacker attempts to disable or weaken a target before an invasion is referred to as “prepping the battlefield.” Digital warfare is one way that foreign nation states disable critical infrastructure to make it vulnerable to conventional assaults. Stephen Flynn of Northeastern University, testifying last year before the House […]
U.S. News & World Report Why Immigration Reform Is a Big Senior Issue Worker shortages loom. “Our real problem is going to be finding enough people to fill the jobs we have, and not the other way around,” says Barry Bluestone, a labor expert at Northeastern University in Boston who heads the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. Bluestone has researched the future employment landscape for seniors, and […]
ABA Journal Want a smoke-free generation? Ban tobacco sales to anyone born this century, law prof says If you want to cut tobacco deaths, you need look no further than federal legislation signed into law in 2009, according to a law professor. The Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act paves the way for two aggressive approaches, according to a New York Timesop-ed by Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard. The law allows the Food […]
3-D pen garners $2m on crowd-funding site Somerville toy creators Peter Dilworth and Max Bogue struck Internet gold just two days after they posted a project on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pay for their latest invention: a three-dimensional printer in the form of a hand-held pen. Their gadget, known as the 3Doodler, attracted so many pledges — with many people offering the […]
The Plain Dealer A. Schulman launches $855 million hostile takeover bid for Ferro Corp. Don Margotta, a finance professor who has written extensively about hostile takeovers at Northeastern University in Boston, said that staggered board structure “is very effective in fighting off takeovers, or at least slowing them down.” On top of that, Margotta said, are Ohio laws that prevent investors from buying more than 20 percent of a company without […]