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Apps Reinvent Green at City Hackathon
By Catherine Yang, The Epoch Times, July 3rd, 2012
NEW YORK—More than 100 application (app) developers got together over the weekend—putting in more than 1,000 hours to create sustainability apps for New Yorkers. Thirteen teams competed in Reinvent Green, PlaNYC’s first sustainability hackathon Saturday and Sunday at NYU–...
What About Clean Energy?
By Esha Ray, Thirteen.org, July 3rd, 2012
This past weekend the city hosted its first sustainability “hackathon” called Reinvent Green, a joint collaboration between NYC Digital, the Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and Brooklyn Beta. In this...
DigiCert promotes their COO, LogLogic is acquire, and more company news
SC Magazine, July 2nd, 2012
DigiCert, an online security provider based in Lindon, Utah, has promoted Chief Operating Officer Nicholas Hales (left) to CEO. Founder Ken Bretschneider will retain business strategy oversight with his appointment as executive chairman of the board. Hales, the company's COO since early 2010,...
NY Hosts First Sustainability Hackathon
NYConvergence, July 2nd, 2012
More than 100 developers and designers gathered over the weekend at NYU-Poly in Downtown Brooklyn as part of NYC Digital and Mayor Bloomberg‘s PlaNYC‘s Reinvent Green Hackathon. According to a statement from Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne, “In two short days we saw the...
Zebrafish Robot
Science Update, June 27th, 2012
BOB HIRSHON (host): Friendly robot leaders. I’m Bob Hirshon and this is Science Update. Animals have inspired the design of many robots, but they’re usually created to serve human purposes. Mechanical engineer Mauricio Porfiri, of the Polytechnic Institute of New York...
Anthony J. Wiener, Forecaster of the Future, Is Dead at 81
By Douglas Martin, The New York Times, June 26th, 2012
Einstein said he never thought about the future because it comes soon enough. Anthony J. Wiener thought about it deeply and influentially. In 1967, Mr. Wiener, a self-described futurist, collaborated with Herman Kahn to write a 431-page book brimming with forecasts for the year 2000. Home computers...
Cyber security heavy hitters gather in Brooklyn, warn of cyber crime increase
By Mary Frost, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 22nd, 2012
One of the top minds in cyber security says that the Internet is getting to be scary place. Internet crime is on the rise and businesses and individuals need to move fast to protect their financial and intellectual property, said Marcus Sachs, VP of National Security Policy for Verizon, speaking at...
What's Making China Fat?
By SARAH GOODYEAR, The Atlantic Cities, June 22nd, 2012
Mariela Alfonzo just got back from a three-week trip to China, where she's been researching walkability in the rapidly expanding megalopolises of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. And a lot of what she saw wasn’t exactly pedestrian-friendly. Kind of the opposite. In a scary way. "...
Cyber revenge is a dish best served by sharing threat data
SC Magazine, June 21st, 2012
The idea of avenging cyber attacks may be tempting for some, but organizations should focus instead on sharing threat data to strengthen their defenses, a panel of cyber security experts said Thursday. While there has been a lot of discussion recently within the security community about...
The Truth About Foul Trouble
By Jim Pagels, Slate.com, June 21st, 2012
Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka picked up his second foul just 4:44 into the Thunder’s Game 4 loss in the NBA Finals. Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks immediately subbed him out, presumably to spare Ibaka from the purgatory of late-game “foul trouble.” In OKC’s Game 3 loss...
