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Fewer than 10 percent respondents in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom said their undergraduate education will provide the skills they will need when artificial intelligence displaces millions of people from their jobs. Graphic by iStock.

People want to keep up in the artificial intelligence age. Employers, educators, and governments are letting them down.

A first-of-its-kind international poll conducted by Northeastern and Gallup finds that majorities of people in the U.S., U.K., and Canada are optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. They also fear that institutions are failing to provide lifelong learning in the new era of automation.

by Ian Thomsen June 27, 2019

This mollusk grows fat on a diet of rock

Scientists are turning to shipworms and other mollusks as a potential source of new compounds for human medicine. The discovery by researchers of Northeastern’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center of a bizarre shipworm, and the bacteria that help it survive, provides an opportunity to look for new antibiotics or chemicals that might help in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.

by Laura Castañón June 18, 2019

More than 4,000 students received degrees at Northeastern’s 117th Commencement exercises. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

May 2019 in photos

We captured the pomp and circumstance of Commencement, learned about the rover that Northeastern students are building to help astronauts on Mars, and got an up-close look at the new campus mural that swirls and dives along the entrance to Ruggles Station.

by Matthew Modoono June 3, 2019

Illustration by Hannah Moore/Northeastern University

It’s time to study machines the way we study humans

With intelligent machines doing more of our collective ‘thinking,’ it’s time for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding machine behavior, says a team of researchers that includes two Northeastern University professors.

by Molly Callahan April 24, 2019

Facebook invests to expand Northeastern computer science master’s program for women and underrepresented populations

Facebook’s investment includes funds for 200 scholarships for students in Northeastern’s Align program, which provides people who didn’t study computer science in college with a pathway to earning a master’s degree in the field. The funding will be critical for increasing the the enrollment of women and underrepresented minorities in the program.

by Greg St. Martin April 18, 2019

People want to keep up in the artificial intelligence age. Employers, educators, and governments are letting them down.

This mollusk grows fat on a diet of rock

May 2019 in photos

It’s time to study machines the way we study humans

Facebook invests to expand Northeastern computer science master’s program for women and underrepresented populations

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