Tag Archives: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mica Endsley, former chief scientist at the U.S. Air Force, has been named to the board of directors of Charles River Analytics, where she will be tasked to provide guidance and insight in support of corporate governance activities. Endsley currently serves as president at SA Technologies.

Advanced Reactor Concepts, General Atomics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology will collectively receive a total of $70.4M in funds from the Department of Energy to mature their nuclear reactor concepts as part of the fiscal year 2020 iteration of a technology demonstration program.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture has appointed seven government and industry veterans to its newly formed board of advisers that will counsel the firm's leadership team on space business matters.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Synack officially launched the agency’s first bug-bounty effort focused on identifying vulnerabilities in the Department of Defense’s hardware and firmware protocols.

The U.S. Air Force Chief Data Office will kick off the first in a series of "datathon" events next week as the military branch looks to address scheduling challenges associated with the C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft.

A consortium launched in March to advance research into the novel coronavirus using supercomputers has approved 78 COVID-19 research proposals and has been running 68 projects as of July 1, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

A business unit under Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space segment is working with Apple and Google as well as the academic and public sectors to deploy a COVID-19 contact-tracing app.

Mitre has tapped Nadia Schadlow, formerly U.S. deputy national security adviser for strategy and Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to serve as senior visiting fellows.

Mitre has joined other private organizations to create an industrial health care-focused union against the COVID-19 coronavirus disease.

IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conducted research into artificial intelligence’s impact on employment and found that the emerging technology would result in fewer tasks and more focus on work that requires “soft skills.”

IBM has donated a computer cluster valued at $11.6M to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help further the university’s artificial intelligence research work, MIT News reported Monday.

Kenneth Kizer, chief healthcare transformation officer at Atlas Research, said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology event in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 1 that effective public-private partnerships can drive efforts to improve patient experience and healthcare.

Michael Ambrose, vice president of engineering and technology at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, has been nominated to join RBC Bearings’ board of directors.

Charles River Analytics has launched a new open-source software development kit designed to help users create augmented and virtual reality programs.

Samsung Electronics America, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology jointly hosted a three-day hackathon that challenged participants to create healthcare information technology applications.