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  • Mayor de Blasio and Tech Leaders Celebrate Opening of Digital.NYC

    Comprehensive Online Platform Connects New Yorkers with Information, Resources and Jobs in New York City’s Digital Economy

    NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2014—New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled Digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind online platform that will serve as a centralized hub for the City’s tech ecosystem, providing information and resources to help turn ideas into businesses, deliver valuable tools for digital startups, and connect New Yorkers to opportunities in the City’s tech ecosystem. Digital.NYC offers a pioneering search portal and database with profiles of virtually every city-based tech company and investor; a continuously updated list of tech and digital job openings, a citywide tech event and class calendar; an interactive map of tech companies, startup resources across the boroughs; and additional features that combine to create a comprehensive one-stop shop for everything startup-related in New York City.


    Mayor de Blasio Unveils Digital.NYC today (from digital.nyc)
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  • Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai Draws 10,000 Attendees

    Huawei Builds on Cloud-Centric IT Strategy at Huawei Cloud Congress
    Launches future-oriented SD-DC² architecture, innovative cloud OS and converged storage system

    Shanghai, China, Sept. 16, 2014, –Huawei today underscored its ambition to maximize value for customers by simplifying IT systems and making businesses agile with more open, converged, and innovative technologies, at the Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) 2014. At the annual event, Huawei will launch a series of innovative IT solutions – including data centers, converged storage, cloud operating systems (OS) and Big Data analytics platforms – that bring to life Huawei’s vision to “Make IT Simple, Make Business Agile.”
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    Eric Xu, Rotating CEO of Huawei, speaking at Huawei Cloud Congress 2014
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  • IBM Announces Watson Analytics

    ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Making its biggest announcement in a decade as leader in analytics, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Watson Analytics, a breakthrough natural language-based cognitive service that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses. According to analysts, only a small fraction of business people use powerful analytics tools as part of their decision making today[1]. Watson Analytics is designed to make advanced and predictive analytics easy to acquire and use.
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  • ONEin3 Announces 2014 Impact Award Honorees of 20 Bostonians under 35

    Twenty Bostonians under the age of 35 will be honored for their positive contributions to the community

    Boston, Sept. 15, 2014,  – The 2014 ONEin3 Mayor’s Council today announced the twenty honorees for the 2014 Impact Awards (#ONEin3Impact) to be celebrated at a ceremony Thursday, September 25 at 7:00pm at MassChallenge.

    Dr. Melissa Wu of Seeding Labs is one of the award honorees.
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  • Gerald Chan — BayHelix Lifetime Achievement Award Speech

    Life Science, a Life in Science and is Life Just a Science
    January 12, 2014

    I am most grateful to be bestowed this honor today by such a distinguished group of my compatriots. I gather that as a response to receiving the life-time achievement award, I should say a few words about my life. This I will do not with the view of training the focus of this talk on my life’s chronology but to touch on a few events which can be illustrative of what I consider to be important in my life.
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    Dr. Gerald Chan (file photo).
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  • University of Utah Links Genetic Mutation to Tibetan High-Altitude Adaptation

    August 28, 2014 – In an environment where others struggle to survive, Tibetans thrive in the thin air on the Tibetan Plateau, with an average elevation of 14,800 feet. A University of Utah led discovery that hinged as much on strides in cultural diplomacy as on scientific advancements, is the first to identify a genetic variation, or mutation, that contributes to the adaptation, and to reveal how it works. The research appears online in the journal Nature Genetics on Aug. 17, 2014.

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    Figure 2 of the research paper on nature.com.
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  • KTByte Computer Academy Fall Registration Is Now Open

    Lexington, Mass., August 26, 2014, –KTByte is a Lexington-based school dedicated to teaching computer science and technologies to students age 9 to 18. It believes early computer education most effectively benefits students throughout their life and career. It recently opened registration for Fall classes.
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    Picture from a programming class(file photo).
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  • Empow Studios Launches STEM-Enriched Fall Classes and After-School Program

    Lexington, Mass., August 25, 2014 , — Empow Studios recently released a full calendar of fall classes, including seven new classes: Minecraft Animation, Website Design, 3D Modeling and Printing, App Design, Digital Music Production, LEGO Animation, and Game Design with Unity.  There are also two kid-tested favorites: Game Design with Gamemaker and LEGO Robotics.

    Empow Studios students work on solar-powered cars.
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  • WSU Researchers Find Crucial Step in DNA Repair

    By Becky Phillips, Washington State University Communications

    PULLMAN, Wash., August 18, 2014, –- Scientists at Washington State University(WSU) have identified a crucial step in DNA repair that could lead to targeted gene therapy for hereditary diseases such as “children of the moon” and a common form of colon cancer. Such disorders are caused by faulty DNA repair systems that increase the risk for cancer and other conditions.

    Smerdon, left, and Mao in their lab in the WSU School of Molecular Biosciences. (Photos by Becky Phillips, WSU University Communications)
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  • Google’s Eric Schmid Answers Privacy Concerns by Chinese Scholar at HKS Talk

    By David Li, bostonese.com

    Cambridge, Mass., August 15, 2014, Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, gave a talk at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS) in May 2014. He discussed his views on innovation, technology and entrepreneurship with moderator CNN’s David Gergen. Mr. Gang Wu, a visiting scholar at HKS, asked Eric Schmidt about how Google would protect privacy of its users.
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    Mr. Gang Wu asks Eric Schmidt about privacy protection.
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