Why Machine Learning is a Delivery Driver’s Best Friend
from Fortune by Larissa Zimberoff Despite radical advances in technology, many companies still plan routes for their delivery trucks the same way they did a decade ago. Managers create itineraries the day before, and then hand printouts to drivers to follow or add them to the hand-held devices that their ...
Lightmatter aims to reinvent AI-specific chips with photonic computing and $11M in funding
from TechCrunch by Devin Coldewey It takes an immense amount of processing power to create and operate the “AI” features we all use so often, from playlist generation to voice recognition. Lightmatter is a startup that is looking to change the way all that computation is done — and not in a ...
Meet the Four MIT Students Working to Disrupt the Expert Network Industry
from Forbes by Frederick Daso If you’re a C-suite executive or institutional investor, chances are you’ve face a problem that you personally couldn’t solve on your own. Your immediate circle of co-workers and colleagues in your industry aren't able to find an answer either. Going through your Rolodex, you're unable to ...
Our Favorite MBA Professors of 2017
from Poets & Quants by Jeff Schmitt Bill Aulet (MIT) Bill Aulet is fond of saying that you learn more from failure than success. He should know. Before he became the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, he ran a startup himself – right into the ...
11 Student-Founded Companies Backed by RDV in 2017
from BostInno by Lucia Maffei Over the past years, Rough Draft Ventures – General Catalyst’s student-focused program backing founders at the university level – has backed many student companies our readers are familiar with, including Freebird, User Interviews and LogRocket. According to the program, in 2017 RDV backed 11 new Boston-based companies across industries such as ...
This Housing App Pairs Boston’s Baby Boomers with Graduate Students
from Boston Magazine by Madeline Bilis Lifelong Cambridge resident Susan Richards has never lived with a stranger. She’s shared her home with her children for just over 20 years, and even in her twenties, she always lived with friends. But recently, the 54-year-old received a new roommate: a postdoctoral scholar ...
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