News Category: General
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General News at Northeastern
News at Northeastern: How the Democratic Party’s email fiasco will affect the presidential race
- August 1, 2016
Wikileaks recently posted nearly 20,000 emails belonging to top officials in the Democratic National Committee, many of which derided the Bernie Sanders campaign while positioning Hillary Clinton as the clear […] -
CCIS launches six new combined majors programs with CSSH, CAMD
- July 30, 2016
- by Shandana Mufti
Author: Shandana Mufti As college students increasingly seek out interdisciplinary programs and work to master the technical skills demanded by so many industries today, CCIS has announced five new combined […] -
GeneralQuitting Engineering to Code
- July 30, 2016
By Shandana Mufti After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental engineering followed by several years working in the field, Isabel Su (MSCS ’16) needed a new challenge. She’d already […] -
Three generations of PhD students, united at Northeastern
- July 30, 2016
By Shandana Mufti When Sarah Brown receives her PhD in electrical engineering this December, she will be third in a line of PhD holders convened at Northeastern, and an “academic […] -
News at Northeastern
Northeastern receives global recognition in career services
- July 27, 2016
Northeastern’s renowned Career Development department has earned global recognition for its work meeting students’ needs in career services and job preparation. The university received the No. 1 Global Career Services […] -
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. -
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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