SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, April 11 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news: Alafair Burke has led a life of crime - mostly fictional, at least. Burke, a native of Wichita, Kansas, is an Edgar Award nominee and a New York Times bestselling novelist of more than 20 crime novels. She is also a professor at Hofstra Law School, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, where her scholarship explores police and prosecutorial discretion. Despite her literary success, her path to th  more

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts, April 11 (TNSres) -- Ameresco, a cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, issued the following news release: Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that it will release its first quarter 2024 financial results after the close of the market on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. The earnings press release will be available on the "Investor Relations" sectio  more

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, April 11 -- Clark University issued the following news: By Melissa Hanson Tools help us save time, freeing up mental space so we can accomplish more. But, the assistance of technological tools can become problematic, suggests Professor Eduard Arriaga-Arango, chair of the Department of Language, Literature, and Culture. We expect devices like Alexa and Siri to respond to our every command, which, he says, can replicate human slavery. "Slavery is a structure that consi  more

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, April 11 -- DNV, a provider of classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services, issued the following news on April 10, 2024: DNV has awarded HD Hyundai Mipo Dockyard an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of ammonia dual fuel 45,000 m3 LPG carriers. The presentation took place at the HD Hyundai Global R&D Center (GRC) in Seongnam, Korea. HD Hyundai Mipo (HMD), who have developed the basic ship design, provided detailed en  more

OXFORD, England, April 11 -- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, a life insurance company, issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: OXFORD, England & SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Genomics plc (Genomics), a healthcare company transforming health through the power of genomics, and MassMutual, a leading mutual life insurance company in the United States, today announced the next phase of their innovative partnership enabling more eligible MassMutual policyowners to gain knowledge about their  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 11 -- Harvard University's Business School issued the following news release: Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced that five distinguished graduates will receive the School's highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. The award is given annually to recognize alumni who are leaders in their fields and who exemplify the mission, highest standards, and values of the School. As role models of outstanding leadership for HBS's graduating students, the recipien  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers create a curious machine-learning model that finds a wider variety of prompts for training a chatbot to avoid hateful or harmful output. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely be able to generate useful code or write a cogent synopsis. However, someone could   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 11 (TNSres) -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), the leading enterprise AI decisioning and workflow automation platform provider, today announced it will report financial results for the first quarter of 2024 on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, after market close. A conference call and audio-only webcast will be conducted at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday,  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2024, the organization announced today. The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Lin  more

NEWTON, Massachusetts, April 11 -- TechTarget, a provider of data-driven marketing services to business-to-business technology vendors, issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: TechTarget, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTGT), the global leader in B2B technology purchase intent data and services today announced the launch of Account Intent Feeds in the latest release of its leading Priority EngineTM purchase intent insight platform. Priority Engine's Account Intent Feeds are powered by TechTarget's   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The device, based on simple tetromino shapes, could determine the direction and distance of a radiation source, with fewer detector pixels. * * * By David L. Chandler, MIT News The spread of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan in 2011 and the ongoing threat of a possible release of radiation from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex   more