Forbes How Big Data Will Transform IT Security In a recently published security brief, Big Data Fuels Intelligence Driven Security, experts from RSA, Northeastern University and Booz Allen Hamilton set out the components for a Big Data-oriented security management system: Set a holistic cyber-security strategy: Align security capabilities behind a holistic cyber security strategy customized for your organization’s specific risks, threats and requirements. Establish a […]
Fixing Black History Month So instead of constant odes to the past, I want to see people like Marquis Landon Cabrera lauded during Black History Month. Just a few decades ago, the 24-year-old Cabrera would have been considered a statistic with poor odds. He bounced around foster homes till he was 15. But then he was adopted by a […]
Dr Seldon, I presume “FOUNDATION”, a novel by Isaac Asimov from the golden age of science fiction, imagines a science called psychohistory which enables its practitioners to predict precisely the behaviour of large groups of people. The inventor of psychohistory, Hari Seldon, uses his discovery to save humanity from an historical dark age. A fantasy, of course. But the […]
The Particle Accelerator of Learning “The fruit ripens slowly,” the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, “but it drops suddenly.” In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out of nowhere, in quick succession – first Udacity in February of last year, followed by Coursera in April, then edX in May. Remarkable as it […]
Mass shootings toll exceeds 900 in past seven years But Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox said offering better mental health care is no cure-all. “Mass murderers won’t take you up on treatment. “They tend to externalize and blame other people for their problems,” he said. “They blame the spouse, the co-workers, immigrants. They feel persecuted. “The kind of crime which motivates you to […]
ABA Journal Only law schools that tackle costs, graduate client-centered lawyers will survive—a dean’s view As calls for reform of legal education continue to suggest a variety of directions, one thing is certain. Law schools will be expected to do more with less. We often hear legal educators highlight tensions within the loud criticisms aimed at today’s law schools. Critics tell us that costs are too high compared to the […]
NECN Champions in Action: The DREAM Program Northeastern University is one of 13 colleges in Massachusetts and Vermont involved in the program, which reaches children in 18 affordable housing communities throughout the two states.
Teen employment falls to 45-year low “Kids haven’t gotten anywhere in the economy’s recovery,” said Northeastern University economist Andrew Sum, who compiled the data for the report. “Adults and older kids are filling those jobs. When kids go to look, they have so many people ahead of them in line they go to the back of the line.”
Most Universities Do Business Plan Competitions, But Northeastern Just Does Business IDEA CEO Chris Wolfel is amazed when he thinks back to his first Northeastern Entrepreneurship Expo (NEXPO) in spring 2011. The event was held in the University’s Curry Student Center Ballroom and featured 10 ventures, visited only by Northeastern students. On Wednesday night, however, more than 500 people packed into one of the school’s larger athletic […]
High school students march for jobs Even with that funding, the coalition says employment of high-school age youth has fallen dramatically, citing a 2012 report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies that put teen employment at a record low of 27 percent, compared with 54 percent in 1999.
Colleges With BEST Learning Disability Programs Northeastern University’s learning disability program ensures a regimented schedule of dynamic and intensive tutorials on top of courses. The school also emphasizes individual student attention.
U.S. Attorney’s Office Takes Heat From Judges Northeastern University School of Law professor Daniel Medwed said the Dein and Woodlock rulings are noteworthy. “It’s incredibly striking to have seasoned, reasonable judges say that ‘I have never seen this’ and go so far as to put it in a public document,” he said. “It does suggest where there is smoke there is fire.”