The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is at the center of the budget crisis, and government is debating: is this truly affordable or will taxpayers be stuck with the bill again? Read more at TheHill.com....
The number of mobile connections is about to overtake the number of people on Earth, statistics from tracking websites reveal. Read more at CBRonline.com....
Dr. Jonas Salk faced down one of the most frightening viral epidemics in modern times. And he stopped it in its tracks. The polio vaccine — brilliantly created through years of painstaking and meticulous research during Salk’s tenure as director of the Virus Research Laboratory...
To honor Wennberg and further the pioneering work of The Dartmouth Institute, Dartmouth College will establish the John E. Wennberg Distinguished Professorship. Made possible by the generosity of 26 donors, the distinguished professorship will provide a stable source of funding to enable one of TDI’s...
Founded in 1891, The Spencer Trask Lectures Series selects lecturers who will emphasize the importance of the humanities. Read more at Princeton.edu....
The world is home to 7.2 billion gadgets, and they’re multiplying five times faster than we are. For the first time ever there are more gadgets in the world than there are people, including a growing number that only communicate with other machines, according to...
“His story is perhaps a story for anyone in how to tackle a problem in the obsessive way Jonas had, of never, ever quitting,” said Kevin Kimberlin, longtime friend of Salk. Read more at Greenwichtime.com....
This Tuesday we heard a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on net neutrality. The Chicago Tribune has effusively called this “one of most important decisions in the history of Internet.” Read more by clicking here....
Kevin Kimberlin, the co-founder [of Ciena], and I talked on the phone for about thirty minutes. For me, the switchman protecting my network, I did not see the future coming at me. Kevin, on the other hand was building it. Read more by clicking here....
The power of inno360, an open innovation collaborative platform and Watson partner, was recently displayed for IBM’s World of Watson 2016 conference attendees Oct. 24-27, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Read more by clicking here....