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Current StudentsMeet the Class of 2015
- June 1, 2015
Four hundred and thirty-two CCIS students graduated and joined the ranks of Northeastern alumni this month. Among them were 107 undergraduates and 325 graduate students. A number of graduates reported […] -
General News at Northeastern
Professor David Lazer | Researchers use mobile phone data to predict employment shocks
- May 27, 2015
Northeastern University computational social scientist David Lazer and his interdisciplinary research team have demonstrated that mobile phone data can be used to quickly and accurately detect, track, and predict changes in the economy at multiple levels. The findings, published Wednesday in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, highlight the potential of mobile phone data to […] -
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General News at Northeastern
How to battle disease using Big Data
- May 20, 2015
When it comes to fighting diseases in the 21st century, Big Data is becoming an integral weapon. At the forefront of this battle is world-renowned network scientist Alessandro Vespignani, who is using Big Data to predict a pandemic’s progression. Vespignani, the Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor of Physics, Computer Science, and Health Sciences at Northeastern, […] -
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How Companies Are Getting Collaboration Wrong
- May 20, 2015
Businesses have embraced employee collaboration lately, from software that helps bring together remote teams to open, workspaces designed to better connect employees, with the hope that bringing different types of workers together will lead to breakthrough ideas and solutions. But is collaboration at work all it’s cracked up to be? Maybe not. Recent research led […] -
CCIS Seattle Event | Women & Minorities in High Tech
- May 20, 2015
Increasing the involvement of women and underrepresented minorities in U.S. high tech companies is a major challenge. The Puget Sound region has the potential to set the standard on how […] -
General News at Northeastern
Northeastern launches new faculty speaker series
- May 19, 2015
Fighting disease in the age of Big Data. Measuring and understanding personalized Web services. Building trust between police and communities. These are among the group of compelling issues being featured in a new faculty speaker series running throughout May and June at Northeastern. The “Minds over Matters: NUterm Faculty Speaker Series” features weekly presentations from […] -
GeneralCCIS professor awarded NSF CAREER award
- April 30, 2015
Amal Ahmed, an assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science, was recently awarded a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant for a proposal titled “CAREER: Verified Compilers for […] -
GeneralCCIS students at computing research association’s for women
- April 30, 2015
Four CCIS students attended a workshop series hosted by the Computing Research Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) in San Francisco earlier this month. The […]
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