Khoury News

Across Northeastern's global network, Khoury College's students, faculty, and staff are discovering, collaborating, and innovating, and their stories can be found here. In the News Source filter, check out Khoury News and Northeastern Global News for student and faculty achievements and stories, and Khoury in the Media for faculty perspectives on the day's news.

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News at Northeastern
The cat-and-mouse game of blocking digital ads
- August 15, 2016
Two Northeastern faculty members—including assistant professor Christo Wilson—explain how new strategies and technologies are changing the digital landscape for users, content providers, and advertisers.
Chronicle
Zika moves quickly, and scientists fear that journals aren’t keeping pace
- August 10, 2016
With the Zika virus spreading north into the United States, network scientist Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern, pulled together some important information he wanted to share.
General News at Northeastern
Biological detectives use Big Data to track disease progression
- August 8, 2016
Just as investigators use evidence to reconstruct crime scenes, Northeastern data scientist Olga Vitek hunts down and analyzes molecular changes that drive diseases to reconstruct their biological “crime scenes.” The evidence she compiles in her massive datasets leads to earlier diagnoses and more effective treatments.
General Bostinno
Android apps can infer your location through sensors – no permissions needed
- August 5, 2016
Android users beware: You might have apps tapping into your whereabouts without your knowledge. Recent research from Northeastern has shown Android apps requiring zero permissions can actually access certain sensors in your phone that enables them to infer your location, past and present.
General The Atlantic
There’s probably way more zika in the United States than has been counted
- August 4, 2016
“CDC is doing a great job, but it is really hard to detect cases,” said Alessandro Vespignani, one of the authors of the paper. The federal agency is faced with an exceedingly difficult task, in part because it is cobbling together data from various monitoring systems in different states and jurisdictions. The nature of the virus presents additional challenges, making it more complicated to track than other epidemics. “You have to ingest much more data and deal with another level of complexity as well as other sources of uncertainties,” Vespignani said.
General News at Northeastern
Vespignani & team project Zika’s growth and spread
- August 2, 2016
The news comes on the heels of new research by Northeastern professor Alessandro Vespignani that can help countries in the Americas plan a response. The new study, along with interactive maps, provides current numbers as well projections for the number of Zika cases in the Americas through January 2017. It also provides projections for the number of microcephaly cases associated with the disease through October 2017, a date chosen to allow for the nine months of pregnancy. Microcephaly is a serious neurological birth defect characterized by a smaller than normal head.
General News at Northeastern
News at Northeastern: How the Democratic Party’s email fiasco will affect the presidential race
- August 1, 2016
Wikileaks recently posted nearly 20,000 emails belonging to top officials in the Democratic National Committee, many of which derided the Bernie Sanders campaign while positioning Hillary Clinton as the clear […]
CCIS launches six new combined majors programs with CSSH, CAMD
- July 30, 2016
- by Shandana Mufti
Author: Shandana Mufti As college students increasingly seek out interdisciplinary programs and work to master the technical skills demanded by so many industries today, CCIS has announced five new combined […]
General
Quitting Engineering to Code
- July 30, 2016
By Shandana Mufti After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental engineering followed by several years working in the field, Isabel Su (MSCS ’16) needed a new challenge. She’d already […]