Quartz Meet the US government office for tricorders, thought-controlled robots, and new life forms The ability to link human brains to machines, create new life forms and build Star Trek-style disease detectors will be the focus of a new Defense Department office soon. The new office, named the Biological Technology Office, or BTO, will serve as a clearinghouse for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, programs into brain […]
Boston.com Design for understanding? Watch the Swiss. Revolutions in computing and communications have produced a relentless flood of information about our world and ourselves—right down to our DNA. Today, Boston’s research and technology sectors generate, process and interpret huge amounts of data across industries, from global business to personal genomics. This information gives us fresh insight and new answers, but presents its […]
Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? Sean Gallagher, the founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, says that global economic expansion in the technology fields has “really highlighted the fact that there is a gap between the supply of people in the workforce coming out of university with skills and credentials to […]
The Verge Go read this NYT expose on a creepy new facial recognition database used by US police “We’ve relied on industry efforts to self-police and not embrace such a risky technology, but now those dams are breaking because there is so much money on the table,” said a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, Woodrow Hartzog, “I don’t see a future where we harness the benefits of face recognition […]
The Degree Rules, for Now Recent headlines have touted the move by several big employers to stop requiring new hires to hold college degrees. Meanwhile, a drumbeat of studies show increasing labor market returns for degrees, and employers say they value the critical thinking skills of liberal arts graduates. These seemingly oppositional trends are both real and on display in a new report from Northeastern University’s Center for the Future […]
Forbes Northeastern University President Joseph E. Aoun: How to be ‘robot-proof’ Dan Schawbel spoke to Joseph E. Aoun, author of Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, about how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact higher education, the future role of students and teachers, how AI will impact entry-level jobs, the role of human connection in a world driven by technology, the relevant of liberal […]
Forbes Northeastern U opens in Silicon Valley with STEM courses PK Agarwal holds one of the more unusual posts in academia — he is regional dean and CEO of Northeastern University Silicon Valley. “Northeastern has a disruptive view of the future,” said Agarwal, explaining why he is running a campus all the way across the continent from the university’s home base in Boston. The university […]
Boston Herald App could help stop epidemics Developing countries could stave off the spread of future deadly epidemics with the help of an Android app in the making — the brainchild of a Northeastern University student fighting outbreaks with the next generation of disease management. “In these countries, they’re not completely familiar with technology, but one thing they do have is cellphones,” […]
CBS News NASA is sending two humanoid robots to college They look like they could be cousins of C-3PO of “Star Wars” fame, and now they’re off to college. NASA has awarded two prototype humanoid robots to research groups at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern University for development work. NASA’s R5 robots were initially conceived for disaster-relief maneuvers, but now are seen as potential […]
Yahoo! ‘Freezing’ software could kill malware by starvation Future defenses against Windows malware may include changing the code of legitimate applications as they run, a security researcher explained at the Summercon 2015 hacker conference today (July 17). Collin Mulliner, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University, said that he and a fellow researcher, Matthias Neugschwandtner of the Vienna University of Technology, devised a way […]
Foreign Affairs Battle bots: How the world should prepare itself for robotic warfare People living today find their lives bookended by two eras of weaponry: nuclear arms and the emerging threat of lethal autonomous weapons. On the one hand, nuclear Armageddon is still a real risk as states fail to live up to their legal obligations to disarm and dispose of their nuclear stockpiles. Lethal autonomous robotic weaponry, […]
Northeastern opening Silicon Valley outpost McNamee is one of several students piloting a new program Northeastern University plans to open this fall. The university has struck a partnership with the company where McNamee works, Integrated Device Technology, to open a small Northeastern campus inside its San Jose corporate headquarters, aimed at reaching midcareer workers like McNamee. The program, a mix […]