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GeneralFrom co-op to employee: CCIS student to start work at Google
- August 29, 2016
By Shandana Mufti Receiving and accepting job offers for life after graduation always brings a sense of relief. Prachi Bhansali (MSCS ’16) recently felt that relief after accepting a position […] -
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Computers can sense sarcasm? Yeah, right
- August 26, 2016
"Irony or sarcasm requires a notion of context. It is quite different from spam or even [textual] sentiment analysis," says Byron Wallace, an assistant professor at Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science. Trying to incorporate some notion of context; that's what's cool about this." -
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How Big, Really, Is The Zika Outbreak In Florida?
- August 24, 2016
"Zika is one of those diseases that is always like an iceberg — you just see the tip," says Alessandro Vespignani, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, who has been tasked with modeling the spread of the virus. -
New proof techniques for adaptive security – Zahra Jafargholi – 8.25.16
- August 24, 2016
Master’s Thesis Defense Abstract Selective security refers to the case where the attacker decides on some parameters of the attack before the attack even begins. In contrast, adaptive security refers […] -
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General Bank Info SecurityBetter ransomware detection: Follow the shouting
- August 19, 2016
At the 25th Usenix Security Symposium in Austin, Texas, this week, a team of researchers from Northeastern University in Boston presented a new method to detect ransomware, called Unveil, and they report that it's proved highly effective in testing. -
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Technavio releases report on top three emerging trends to impact the global connected health market
- August 19, 2016
“The current healthcare system faces a shortage of resources. The supply of experienced medical professionals has been insufficient to meet the rapidly growing demand for medical services. The shortage of nurses is one of the major reasons for a drop in the quality of medical services. Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, US has developed the concept of a virtual nurse to overcome this,” according to Amber. -
Analysis of Named Entity Recognition & Entity Linking in Historical Text – Kunal Asarsa – 8.12.16
- August 18, 2016
Master’ Thesis Defense Abstract Named Entity Recognition is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique that is used to identify names of people, places, organizations, and more from a given piece […] -
Introduction to side-channel cryptanalysis (and some recent results) – Francois-Xavier Standaert – 8.11.16
- August 18, 2016
Abstract Side-channel cryptanalysis is a new research area in applied cryptography that has gained more and more interest since the mid-nineties. It considers adversaries trying to take advantage of the […]
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