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General News at NortheasternCoast-to-coast collaboration targets food security
- July 22, 2016
A team of 20 graduate students at Northeastern University’s Boston and Seattle campuses spent the spring semester working together, collaborating via Skype, GitHub, and Google Hangouts to build a software platform aimed at connecting stakeholders in the aquaponics farming community. -
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General boingboingCCIS researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites
- July 8, 2016
CCIS Professor Guevara Noubir and CCIS PhD Student Amirali Sanatinia have announced a paper (to be delivered at this summer's Def Con hacker convention in Las Vegas) that reveals over 100 spying Tor nodes that were shown to be targeting hidden services. -
General NYU
Building a better computer bug finder
- July 7, 2016
A paper detailing the research was presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy and was published in the conference proceedings. Technical staff members of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory led the technical research: Patrick Hulin, Tim Leek, Frederick Ulrich, and Ryan Whelan. Collaborators from Northeastern University are Engin Kirda, professor of computer and information science; Wil Robertson, assistant professor of computer and information science; and doctoral student Andrea Mambretti -
General The Atlantic
When should hacking be legal?
- July 6, 2016
The four professors bringing the lawsuit are conducting research into racial and other discriminatory biases in online services. One pair of researchers—Christian Sandvig, of the University of Michigan, and Karrie Karahalios, of the University of Illinois—is examining real-estate websites, and the other pair—Alan Mislove and Christo Wilson of Northeastern University—is looking at hiring websites. -
GeneralAlgorithms are everywhere – How do they work?
- June 30, 2016
By Shandana Mufti We take technology for granted. We expect low prices on goods purchased through Amazon, and we expect cars requested through Uber to show up promptly. We think […] -
GeneralCommunity service award highlights student’s commitment to tutoring, mentorship
- June 30, 2016
By Shandana Mufti Working toward a PhD is time-consuming: there’s research to be done, grants to be secured and papers to write. But Ben Greenman, who hopes to earn his […] -
Current StudentsStudent 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. -
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