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State Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for 2024-02-28 ( 11 items )  
Bay Path University Announces Acquisition of Cambridge College (10)
LONGMEADOW, Massachusetts, Feb. 28 -- Bay Path University issued the following news release: Today the Boards of Bay Path University and Cambridge College announced that Bay Path has entered into a formal agreement to acquire Cambridge College. This transformative move reflects a strategic focus by both institutions on planning for future success providing career-focused education models to a diverse student population. "The determination and spirit that have guided Bay Path for 127 years pave more PR

Circle and Coincheck to Partner on Expanding Access to USDC in Japan (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 28 -- Circle Internet Financial, a financial technology firm, issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Coincheck, Inc. (Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Satoshi Hasuo, Representative Director & President; hereinafter "Coincheck") and Circle Internet Financial, LLC (Headquarters: Massachusetts, USA; Co-founder and CEO: Jeremy Allaire; hereinafter "Circle"), a global financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC/1, announced today plans for a partnersh more PR

City of Boston's Urban Tree Data Now Available Through Analyze Boston (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 28 (TNSres) -- The city of Boston issued the following news: The Parks and Recreation Department and Urban Forestry Division have announced a new milestone in ongoing efforts to enhance public access to urban tree data. Building upon the completion of the street tree inventory in 2021 and the ongoing efforts to inventory trees in parks, both datasets (street and park trees) are now accessible and downloadable through Analyze Boston, the City of Boston's Open Data Hub more PR

GE Vernova Ranked #1 in 2024 Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard for GridOS DERMS Software That Enables a Smarter, Resilient Grid (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 28 (TNSres) -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Today, GE Vernova, a purpose-built global energy company and a leader in distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) software, announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard: DERMS Providers. This distinction reflects GE Vernova's commitment to innovation in DER more PR

Generative AI for Smart Grid Modeling (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 27 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT LIDS awarded funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission as part of a multi-state collaborative project to model and test new smart grid technologies for use in rural areas. * * * MIT's Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) has been awarded $1,365,000 in funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to support its involvement with an inn more PR

MASS. A.G. CAMPBELL FILES LAWSUIT AGAINST TOWN OF MILTON FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH MBTA COMMUNITIES LAW (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 28 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Feb. 27, 2024: Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell filed suit (https://www.mass.gov/doc/ag-campbell-complaint-against-town-of-milton/download) today against the Town of Milton for failure to comply with the MBTA Communities Law, a bipartisan law that addresses the Commonwealth's housing affordability crisis by requiring municipalities served by the MBTA to have at least one more PR

Mintz's Dean Zioze Named Go to Business Transactions Lawyer By Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (10)
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 27 -- Mintz, a law firm, issued the following news release: Mintz is pleased to share that Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Chair Dean Zioze has been named a 2024 Go To Business Transactions Lawyer by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. The award recognizes top business transaction lawyers across the Commonwealth who demonstrate significant leadership in the field with a record of success, and to whom other lawyers make referrals for their expertise and accomplishment. De more PR

MIT: "We Offer Another Place for Knowledge" (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 27 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: By Katherine Ouellette, MIT Open Learning In the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, Jospin Hassan didn't have access to the education opportunities he sought. So, he decided to create his own. Hassan knew the booming fields of data science and artificial intelligence could bring job opportunities to his community and help solve local challenges. After earning a spot in the 2020-21 cohort o more PR

MIT: Cybersecurity Software Wins a 2024 Federal Laboratory Consortium Excellence in Technology Transfer Award (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 27 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Lincoln Laboratory-developed Timely Address Space Randomization (TASR) was transferred to two commercial providers of cloud-based services. * * * By Ariana Tantillo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory The Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) has selected MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Timely Address Space Randomization (TASR) as one of the recipients of their 2024 Excellence in Technology  more PR

MIT: New AI Model Could Streamline Operations in a Robotic Warehouse (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 27 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * By breaking an intractable problem into smaller chunks, a deep-learning technique identifies the optimal areas for thinning out traffic in a warehouse. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News Hundreds of robots zip back and forth across the floor of a colossal robotic warehouse, grabbing items and delivering them to human workers for packing and shipping. Such warehouses are incre more PR

MIT: Putting AI Into the Hands of People With Problems to Solve (10)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Feb. 27 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Alumni-founded Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder so domain experts can build solutions without writing any code. * * * By Zach Winn, MIT News As Media Lab students in 2010, Karthik Dinakar SM '12, PhD '17 and Birago Jones SM '12 teamed up for a class project to build a tool that would help content moderation teams at companies like Twitter (now X) and YouT more PR