Voice of San Diego Public Safety a Phantom Issue in Mayor’s Race Public safety makes up more than half the city’s day-to-day budget, but the mayoral candidates aren’t talking much about it. Instead, the candidates are focusing on issues, such as economic development and education, where they will have less control. Even though public safety comprises a significant chunk of municipal budgets nationwide, San Diego isn’t alone […]
Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security In today’s Academic Minute, Northeastern University’s Amy Sliva examines how advances in computing power are allowing for an artificially intelligent approach to cyber security. Sliva is an assistant professor at Northeastern with a dual appointment in political science and the College of Computer and Information Science.
Was Obama too relentless with Romney? The third and final Obama-Romney debate may not change many minds, but as a study in competing strategies, it is certain to ignite strong opinions all around. Although the two candidates sat side by side, like guests at a dinner party, each man was playing an entirely different game. Mitt Romney came ready to float […]
Center for Digital Education Presidential Election Draws 4K Visitors to Multimedia Curriculum A U.S. Political Conventions & Campaigns website has drawn more than 4,000 unique visitors and gathered more than 33,000 pageviews since it launched in August. A professor and students at Northeastern University developed the website to provide an in-depth, nonpartisan look at conventions and campaigns. The site features interviews with at least 24 people across […]
Tracking Malaria Through Cell Phone Use It would be a lot easier to end the disease if infected people just stayed put, but they tend to move around and bring malaria with them. But using cell phone data, scientists can help predict where outbreaks will spread, and work to stop them before they start.
Marie Claire Women on Top Awards: The Transformers For Marie Claire’s third annual Women on Top Awards, we combed the country for the up-and-comers leading thought-revolutions, creating businesses, and making names for themselves in fields from the military to the arts. None is a day over 40, with a couple of notable exceptions: We’ve added a “Super Woman” category to celebrate women of […]
How to improve the debates Until about three weeks ago, most Americans had never seen Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in a room together. That’s what made the prospect of their debates so exciting: After months of posturing, spinning, and sniping from afar, the two rivals would finally go toe-to-toe, stepping into the ring without a protective shield of advisers.
The Seattle Times Northeastern U’s Seattle branch to open in Jan. near Amazon When he visited Seattle last week, the president of Northeastern University took pains to explain why the Northwest’s largest city — some 2,500 miles and three times zones away — was a logical site for a private research institution in Boston to open a branch campus.
Metro Behind the degree: Digital media Cynthia Baron directs the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media program at Northeastern University. Like most graduate degrees of this kind, the Northeastern program only emerged in the past few years. She sat down with Metro to discuss this budding field of study.
Presidential Debate Hosts Face Lengthy Checklist Is the humidity in the hall just right? Are there enough hotel rooms nearby to hold the hordes of campaign staffers and journalists? Will the candidates’ dressing rooms be big enough? Landing a presidential debate requires painstaking adherence to a lengthy checklist, not to mention millions of dollars. Colleges and universities big and small have […]
The New York Law Journal The Time for Legal Educators to Be Bold In one of his most celebrated dissents, Justice Louis D. Brandeis addressed an issue not likely to come before the U.S. Supreme Court again: whether the state of Oklahoma could regulate distributors of ice as a public utility.
US defense chief calls cyberspace battlefront of the future Cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. William Robertson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston who testified on cyber security legislation in Congress earlier […]