Manufacturing 2.0: Old Industry Creating New High-Tech Jobs “I think that’s an old story,” says Barry Bluestone, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s been studying the 7,000 manufacturing businesses in Massachusetts, surveying hundreds of them and making site visits to dozens. “We’re seeing a new, almost renaissance in manufacturing,” he says. Bluestone says manufacturers are learning new technologies, and new manufacturing […]
For Comfort and Posterity, Digital Archives Gather Crowds The pressure-cooker bombs that exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon last April 15 shattered bodies and lives. But their impact was felt far beyond the blast radius as the shock spread and authorities set out to find the perpetrators. The ensuing manhunt put an already traumatized city on lockdown. One of the […]
Boston Magazine The Socii App Lets Users Get Free Food From Social Media Posts Noting that it’s difficult for businesses to generate buzz using social media merely by asking people to “like” their Facebook page, or follow them on Twitter, Victor Dweck saw an open opportunity to introduce a product that he says could change the way customers interact with establishments, while rewarding everyone involved. Using the app Dweck […]
Are Jobless Benefits Leading to Higher Unemployment? The latest entry in the debate comes from Rand Ghayad, a graduate student atNortheastern University who has already won attention for his work studying the plight of the long-term unemployed. In an earlier paper, Mr. Ghayad and a colleague looked at the well-known relationship between unemployment and job openings. Ordinarily, the two indicators move together, in a predictable pattern: More […]
Healthcare IT News 3 benefits of virtual health assistants In explaining NextIT’s work, Morrison repeatedly cited research conducted by Northeastern University’s Timothy Bickmore, who argues that so-called relational agents “can play a major role in the chronic disease management process by providing patients not only with an additional source of information about their disease, treatment regimen and adherence level, but with motivational support for taking care […]
Asia Pacific Forum Generic Drug War: Global South vs. Big Pharma Can you put a price tag on your health? Around the world, people are being denied life-saving medicines simply because they can’t afford the cost of medicine. But there is a growing movement to resist the power of the big pharmaceutical companies that currently control the global medicine market through monopolies and patents.You might have […]
How Greater Boston’s Colleges are Using Social Media to Welcome in the Class of 2016 Ready or not, students are coming back to Boston. The first flood will likely be the class of 2016 — those incoming freshmen with a panicked look in their eyes and a lanyard from their respective school slung around their neck, because they just don’t know how nerdy it looks yet. To help students navigate […]