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  • Student software development team wins award for community service

    • June 30, 2016

    Experiential learning at CCIS doesn’t end when co-op is over – it continues in the classroom. In Professor Mike Weintraub’s Software Development class this spring semester, students weren’t tasked with creating projects for made-up clients. Instead, they were split into teams, assigned a community partner and a project, and given a semester to bring that to life.

  • Prof. Choffnes’ research finds T-Mobile’s Binge On doesn’t live up to the hype

    • June 20, 2016

    Want to watch unlim­ited videos from Net­flix, YouTube, and other providers on your mobile device for free? Make us your internet ser­vice provider, says T-Mobile. Our Binge On ser­vice allows you to do just that. Not so fast, says Northeastern’s David Choffnes, assis­tant pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence. New research by Choffnes and his col­leagues shows that what T-Mobile promises is not what you, or con­tent providers, may actu­ally get.

  • Internships Help Define Doctoral Research

    • May 31, 2016

    By Shandana Mufti The internet is home to a staggering amount of information, much of which is accessible through web searches. Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg, a PhD candidate in Computer Science, specializing […]

    Matthew Ekstrand

  • Students Participate in Google Code Jam Competition

    • May 31, 2016

    By Shandana Mufti CCIS students don’t shy away from challenges. Examples might include a tough higher-level class, a highly specialized co-op, or nuanced research into a computer science topic. Alp […]

    Google Code Jam

  • It’s easier to defend against ransomware than you might think

    • May 24, 2016

    Ransomware – malicious software that sneaks onto your computer, encrypts your data so you can’t access it and demands payment for unlocking the information – has become an emerging cyberthreat. Several reports in the past few years document the diversity of ransomware attacks and their increasingly sophisticated methods. Recently, high-profile ransomware attacks on large enterprises such as hospitals and police departments have demonstrated that large organizations of all types are at risk of significant real-world consequences if they don’t protect themselves properly against this type of cyberthreat.

    Ransomware

  • 3Qs: Can ‘scrubbing’ your online identity save your reputation?

    • May 23, 2016

    What hap­pens when you Google your­self? For those wor­ried about less than favor­able search results or news sto­ries, “scrub­bing” has emerged as a pop­ular approach to improving a poor online rep­u­ta­tion. From celebri­ties and large cor­po­ra­tions to uni­ver­si­ties and orga­ni­za­tions, there is a growing appetite to boost the online image of their brand. One way to do that is to hire experts to clean up and lit­er­ally wipe neg­a­tive men­tions of them from the Internet. Here, David Choffnes, pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence, weighs in on whether scrub­bing is an effec­tive and real­istic way to manage and improve an online reputation.

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