‘More of a Band-Aid’: US cities canceling ShotSpotter due to cost, efficacy questions Eric Piza, Ph.D., a professor of criminology and criminal justice, director of crime analysis initiatives, and co-director of the Crime Prevention lab at Northeastern University in Boston, was part of a team that conducted extensive studies on ShotSpotter in Kansas City, Missouri, and Chicago using 15 years’ worth of crime data.
Nature.com New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden The molecule was found in soil samples collected from a laboratory technician’s garden. The discovery shows that “there is terrifically interesting stuff hiding in plain sight”, says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the research. “Kudos to them that they knew what to look for.”
Gun control group wants to show you how and where guns are being used But there have been efforts to create resources like EveryShot before, including the Gun Violence Archive and AmericanViolence.org. A collaboration between USA TODAY, Northeastern University and The Associated Press has also been tracking all mass killings in the United States over the past decade.
Boston.com AI-assisted reporting in Boston-area newsrooms raises questions about role of new technology in building a community “I would like to know more specifically about the process,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor in the School of Journalism at Northeastern University. “What exactly is she doing, and what exactly is AI doing? It doesn’t seem like they are telling us that.”
Trump declared war on fentanyl traffickers. Is it what parents of overdose victims want? “The parent paradigm of pushing for tougher sentencing and tougher approaches in many ways reflects this theater that prosecutors and lawmakers are engaged in,” said Leo Beletsky, a drug policy researcher at Northeastern University and UC San Diego.
What 23andMe’s bankruptcy means for your DNA data “At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
WYPR Baltimore Many bridges across the U.S. face the same risks as Maryland’s Key Bridge Stephen Flynn, a critical infrastructure analyst for Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, says there are a handful of options to protect bridges for a fraction of the price of a disaster like the Key Bridge.
Bloomberg Law Kennedy’s Health Cuts Seen as Taking Toll on Services, Oversight Among those HHS agencies being moved is the Office for Civil Rights, which “really is not focused on waste, fraud and abuse,” said Brook Baker, professor of law emeritus at Northeastern University. “It’s about discrimination. It’s about people not getting equal health services.”
Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves “The general idea is very promising,” says Christopher Amato, a computer scientist at Northeastern University who works on reinforcement learning. “I do completely agree that the lack of good training data is a big problem.”
Forbes How Jennifer Sey’s XX-XY Athletics Brand Transcended Politics In Its First Year An experimental study by Northeastern University political science Professor Costas Panagopoulos and colleagues found that brands perceived as partisan, i.e. aligned with Democrat or Republican candidates, drew consumers with similar party affiliations and distanced those on the other side. The stronger the consumers’ party affiliation, the stronger their movement one way or another.
Newsweek Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Plunges With Baby Boomers Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “There appears to be deterioration in approval among baby boomers over the past few weeks, although the relatively limited number of the polls’ respondents in this subgroup requires caution.”
The Hill The Republican plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act Tiffany D. Joseph is Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Northeastern University and the author of “Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare.”