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How to Quantify Success

An increasing number of researchers have begun devel­oping cre­ative ways to mea­sure suc­cess from a quan­ti­ta­tive point of view, from ana­lyzing cita­tion pat­terns to number-​​crunching pres­i­den­tial elections. More than two dozen econ­o­mists, physi­cists, math­e­mati­cians, and social sci­en­tists con­vened to dis­cuss the quan­ti­ta­tive laws and pat­terns gov­erning high achieve­ment on Monday at an all-​​day con­fer­ence. The [...]

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Babies’ Babbling Enables New Research Tool

Thirty two years ago, computer and information science professor Harriet Fell had just given birth to her oldest child when Linda Ferrier, then a PhD student working on her thesis in speech language pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital came into her hospital room looking for infant volunteers. She was collecting recordings of infants “babbling” to [...]

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Researchers to Explore the ‘Science of Success’

We once thought it took a genius to be suc­cessful, but this is simply not the case. “In spite of all the claims to the con­trary, suc­cess is a col­lec­tive phe­nomena: You are only suc­cessful because many of us think that you are,” said Albert-​​László Barabási, dis­tin­guished pro­fessor of physics and computer science, and director [...]

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Northeastern University’s North Carolina Campus Adding Nine Programs to Curriculum

Northeastern’s graduate campus in Charlotte, North Carolina is adding nine degree programs to its curriculum this fall, according to university officials. Northeastern University — Charlotte will offer seven new master’s degrees and the first two doctoral degrees, campus officials said in a statement. The campus, which opened in 2011, currently has 17 degree programs, including [...]

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