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Prestigious National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Announces Grant to Uncover the DNA of Social Knowledge NEW YORK, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative announced it will fund research by a team led by Oded Nov, an assistant professor of technology management and innovation at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), into what Nov calls "silicon brains" - large-scale knowledge repositories created online. (Logo:...

Smith & Jones introduces Ellis Medicine’s 2013 maternity marketing campaign. Troy, NY (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 “Obstetrics is inherently a dangerous situation,” said Dr. Susan Dantoni, an OB/GYN Hospitalist at Ellis Medicine’s Bellevue Woman’s Center, “and having an OB hospitalist who specializes in handling OB emergencies, it simply reduces the risks to the moms and the babies.” Bellevue Woman’s Center is the only facility in the Capital District that offers an OB...

NYU-Poly Hosts New York Metropolitan Student Engineering Chapters, Competes in Popular Steel Bridge and Concrete Canoe Competitions NEW YORK, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Proving that innovative engineering can overcome specific weight, students of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) this weekend steered their concrete canoe to one first-place finish while taking first place for constructing the most technically sound and aesthetically pleasing canoe....

Researchers at New York University and NYU Langone Medical Center have created a novel way to enhance MRI by reducing interference from large macromolecules that can often obscure images generated by current chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) methods. Their work, which appears in the Nature publishing group journal Scientific Reports, has the potential to improve MRI for cartilage as well as for brain tissue. "We have found a way to eliminate signals of certain molecules and...

NEW YORK, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- At what may well be the first conference of its kind, Commissioner Scott D. O'Malia of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will join thought leaders from throughout the financial industry to grapple with issues arising from massive amounts of digital financial data. The Department of Risk and Finance Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will host Big Data Finance on Friday, May 3, 2013, on its...

Happening April 26-27 at NYU-Poly BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Different Games will celebrate its inaugural conference on April 26 and 27, 2013, at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly). A project of NYU-Poly's Department of Technology, Culture and Society, the conference will address the issues of diversity, difference and inclusivity in game design, production, scholarship and criticism. "We want to amplify seldom-heard voices in the games...

The certification of seafood as "sustainable" by the nonprofit Marine Stewardship Council is too lenient and discretionary, a study by a consortium of researchers has found. "When consumers want sustainable fish there are two options to meet the demand: fisheries can become more sustainable or the definition of sustainable can be watered down to be practically meaningless—with MSC seafood, the definition has been repeatedly watered down," said Jennifer Jacquet, a clinical assistant...

NEW YORK, April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- There's a battle going on right now, as companies compete to attract and retain top talent. Among the most potent weapons a human resources manager can wield is applying data analytics to talent management. On Thursday, April 18, 2013, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will host a free half-day conference exploring advances in talent management and offering advice on data-driven practices that can benefit...

NEW YORK, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will honor three remarkable leaders of industry and education during its annual i(2)e Gala, on April 17, 2013 in Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan. The event will recognize Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation; Jerry M. Hultin, NYU-Poly president on sabbatical; and Arthur Martinez, retired chairman and CEO of Sears Roebuck & Co. (Logo:...

MARI GAMES, sponsored by Carney Labs, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, and George Mason University, is a learning games competition with $50,000 in prizes available. Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) March 21, 2013 Alexandria-based Carney Labs LLC has announced the first in a series of learning games called MARI GAMES for 2013. MARI GAMES, http://www.marigames.org, is a competition among developers of all ages to create games to improve human performance and learning. The top...