News Category: General
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Ian Gorton Named Director of CS- Seattle
- March 13, 2015
Dr. Ian Gorton will be joining Northeastern’s College of Computer and Information Science’s Seattle campus as Director of Computer Science, effective June 1, 2015. Gorton comes to Northeastern with 25 […] -
A Problem Solver Shares His Lessons
- February 28, 2015
With the encouragement of faculty and friends, Dan King gained both confidence and a new career direction. Now, by staying involved with his alma mater, the 2013 College of Computer […] -
GeneralFrom Hacking to Hong Kong: A Computer Science Student Explores Her Possibilities
- February 28, 2015
Interning with Google. Studying in Hong Kong. Mentoring members of the Science Club for Girls. -
GeneralResearch seeks to beat the botnets
- February 28, 2015
It’s become regular news: Cyber criminals are taking down company networks, stealing personal data, and holding hard drives hostage to extract ransoms from computer users. They’re activating stealthy botnets and […] -
Current Students
Go Time for Game Jammers
- February 4, 2015
Creating a game often takes months or even years. But for one weekend each year, thousands of people from dozens of countries condense the process into 48-hours. Global Game Jam […] -
Corporations & IndustryExperiencing research through co-op
- January 29, 2015
Alex Gimmi already plans to continue his education once he completes his computer science degree in 2016. So the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science (CCIS) undergraduate jumped […] -
GeneralMellon Grant to Northeastern University and UMass Amherst to explore big data in the humanities
- January 29, 2015
Northeastern University has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop the Proteus toolset for information retrieval and visualization. Building on their existing strengths in information […] -
GeneralUnderstanding the Human Component of P2P File Sharing
- January 29, 2015
Millions of people turn to BitTorrent each month, making it the world’s most popular peer-to-peer communication protocol. But how and why are they using it? A multi-university team of researchers […] -
Corporations & IndustryNortheastern Joins New Research Center on Healthy Aging
- January 26, 2015
Northeastern’s membership in this new Roybal Center dovetails with the university’s focus on health—one of its primary research themes—and builds upon its leadership in research on healthy aging. Photo via […]