How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Noah Giansiracusa shares five key insights from his new book with the Next Big Idea Club. "Math is too powerful a tool to leave in the hands of the elites. It’s time to take math back from the rich ...

Alongside two coauthors, Bruce Schneier argues that the US government and semiconductor firms alike must enforce (and comply with the enforcement of) regulations.

Ryan Kellett explores resistance to the "labels, markers, and/or pedigree of traditional journalism," suggesting that "code-switching" toward and away from the journalist label can be strategically ...

Josh is also the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Covariance.ai, an MIT-based startup named to the STEX25 and awarded ...

RSM Visiting Scholar Noah Giansiracusa's new book explores how non-mathematicians can wield algorithmic tools to reclaim their agency.

Zahra Takhshid examines the legal potential of addressing torts committed via avatars, a particularly pressing issue given the emergence of the metaverse and spatial computing.

Northeastern's Khoury College shares the news of Upol Ehsan's BKC Fellowship. During his Fellowship term, Ehsan will continue his work on "algorithmic afterlife cycles," including his highly ...

Jonathan Zittrain and Aleksander Mądry discuss the challenges (and potential benefits) of living alongside increasingly autonomous AI as the technology approaches AGI.

Sahana Udupa sits down with Germany's DW News to discuss Elon Musk's Grok, including the chatbot's tendency to generate hateful extremist content under the guise of 'fun' vulgarity.

Angela Xiao Wu sheds light on the Chinese government's 1% 'golden shares' in tech companies, and how these shares have ended up limiting companies' ability to capitalize on globalizing markets.

Mark Esposito focuses on the data center as a new "battleground" as countries fear that cross-national data processing and storage could put their citizens' digital and economic security at risk.