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Giving Tuesday is today
“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 […]
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Retailers’ use of dynamic pricing skyrockets
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.
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Researchers run largest known transparent checkpointing process
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.
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Zika No Longer Global ‘Health Emergency,’ WHO Declares
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.
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Computer models help forecast spread of Zika virus
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.
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There’s a war on for cybersecurity talent
Filling cybersecurity jobs is getting so hard managers need to think outside the box if they hope to fill critical positions, experts say.
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New professor builds applications that combat cyberattacks
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.
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New study: Success can come at any age
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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Researchers tracking Ebola’s spread win first Aspen Institute Italia Award
Research by Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in Liberia in 2014 and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions has won the first annual Aspen Institute Italia Award.
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