News Category: General
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GeneralInternships 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 […] -
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 […] -
General The ConversationIt’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. -
General News at Northeastern
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. -
General News at NortheasternCCIS dean’s own path spurs drive to increase student opportunities
- May 17, 2016
Carla Brodley ardently believes every college student should give computer science a try—whether that means diving in with a major or dipping in by taking an elective. “It’s a basic […] -
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General News at NortheasternIs that a turnip or a bomb?
- May 4, 2016
Computer science professor Mitchell Wand has a surefire way of introducing his research in social settings. "When people come up to me at a cocktail party and ask about my research, I tell them this: Somewhere down in the bowels of the Pentagon is this guy whose job is to write a computer program. The program will take the video feed from a drone over in Afghanistan or Iraq, or wherever drones fly these days, and figure out if that guy kneeling on the side of the road is planting turnips or planting a bomb." -