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Giving Tuesday is today
- November 29, 2016
“Giving Tuesday” is a global day of giving fueled by social media and collaboration, officially kicking off the charitable giving season. Join the CCIS community of supporters by texting 41444 […] -
General The Record
Retailers’ use of dynamic pricing skyrockets
- November 28, 2016
It's just a matter of time, perhaps as little as five years, before more retailers take up the practice, said Christo Wilson, an assistant professor and researcher in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. His recent academic research found some retailers offering consumers different products depending on whether they were shopping on a desktop computer or a mobile device. Android users saw higher prices. -
GeneralResearchers run largest known transparent checkpointing process
- November 23, 2016
A team of researchers led by Jiajun Cao, a PhD candidate in the College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) at Northeastern University, recently used Distributed Multi-Threaded CheckPointing (DMTCP) software in what appears to be the largest known instance of transparent checkpointing. -
NPR
Zika No Longer Global ‘Health Emergency,’ WHO Declares
- November 22, 2016
Alessandro Vespignani states it's too early to draw conclusions about why there are more Zika-linked microcephaly cases in Brazil than other countries in Latin America. -
HealthData Management
Computer models help forecast spread of Zika virus
- November 18, 2016
According to Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, what makes Zika such a challenge to track and predict is that as many as 80 percent of people infected with the virus are asymptomatic, and it is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes and spread internationally through travel. -
Network World
There’s a war on for cybersecurity talent
- November 17, 2016
Filling cybersecurity jobs is getting so hard managers need to think outside the box if they hope to fill critical positions, experts say. -
News at Northeastern
New professor builds applications that combat cyberattacks
- November 8, 2016
For new CCIS associate professor Alina Oprea, collaboration is the solution to stopping future cyberattacks, the key to halting hackers and cyberterrorists bent on sparking a global catastrophe. -
News at Northeastern
New study: Success can come at any age
- November 4, 2016
New research led by Northeastern network scientist Albert-László Barabási shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, creative breakthroughs in science can come at any age, in the 20s, 40s, even 70s. -
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