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Successful CCIS alum works to pay it forward
By Shandana Mufti When Bill Mayo (BSCS ’88; MBA ‘94) attended Northeastern as a computer science student in the 1980s, it was a different place. The computer science program was […]
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Faculty’s summer assignment: prepare for the fall semester
Associate professor Magy Seif El-Nasr, who holds joint appointments in theCollege of Computer and Information Science and the College of Arts Media and Design, spent the summer designing a new […]
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Feds spend $500,000 to ‘combat online trolling’
The National Science Foundation is spending roughly half a million dollars to combat “online trolling.” A joint project by Northwestern and Northeastern universities is examining how to create “trolling-free environments” on the Internet. The researchers define online trolls as those who try to influence public opinion by boosting “misleading” and “inauthentic comments.”
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CCIS Student brings passion for ‘white hat’ hacking to Northeastern
David Dworken’s interest in cybersecurity took shape somewhat accidentally, by finding vulnerabilities in his high school’s website during a technology class. By his senior year however, he was hacking into […]
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Media coverage roundup: Suspicious Tor node research by Professor Guevara Noubir
Professor Guevara Noubir and PhD student Amirali Sanatinia conducted research on the Tor network, a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the […]
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Amazon employee takes advantage of CCIS ALIGN program
By Shandana Mufti Many people would be done with school after earning an undergraduate degree and an MBA. Not Andrew Dickens (MSCS ’17). Andrew is currently working on his second […]
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CCIS launches three new degree programs
By Shandana Mufti Intro CCIS has announced three new degree programs for its undergraduate and graduate students. The programs – BS in Data Science, MS in Data Science and MS […]
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From co-op to employee: CCIS student to start work at Google
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
"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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