BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 4 -- Brown Rudnick, a law firm, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 3, 2024 - Brown Rudnick announced today that Vince Shier and Ryan Smith have joined the firm as life sciences and technology partners in the firm's Washington, D.C., office. The move enhances Brown Rudnick's reputation as a go-to firm for life sciences and technology, and follows the arrival in New York of life sciences litigator Merri Moken in May 2023, BR BioAdvisory Servic  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 4 -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, issued the following news: Foley Hoag has grown its International Trade & National Security practice in the EU with the addition of a four-person team led by partner Olivier Dorgans to its Paris office. The group, which comes to Foley Hoag from Ashurst LLP, also includes counsel Paul Charlot, senior associate Camille Mayet, and associate Pauline Montaldier. Olivier Dorgans and his team have a diverse client base including financial ins  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Charalampos Sampalis explores all that MIT Open Learning has to offer while growing his career in Athens, Greece. * * * By Lauren Rebecca Thacker, MIT Open Learning Charalampos (Haris) Sampalis was well established in his career as a product manager at a telecommunications company in Greece. Yet, as someone who enjoys learning, he was on a mission to acquire more knowled  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 4 -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: Legal implications of artificial intelligence are increasingly part of intellectual property transactions. In a Managing Intellectual Property article, IP transactions counsel Georgina Suzuki discussed key legal issues in licensing and strategic collaboration in AI transactions as awareness of the technology grows. Georgina explains that life sciences companies that partnered with AI businesses were previ  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 4 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: The Massachusetts Attorney General's Office (AGO) has joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, urging that court to affirm the lower court's decision to uphold a Florida law that prohibits individuals under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms. The AGO and the coalition filed the brief in Natio  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 4 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release on Sept. 3, 2024: * * * Coalition of 20 Attorneys General File SCOTUS Brief in Support of FDA's Denial of Flavored Vape Products, Highlighting the Importance of Federal Action to Support States' Efforts to Address Youth Vaping * * * Amidst an ongoing nationwide youth vaping epidemic, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has led a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 3 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Mechatronics combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it's about design. * * * By Anne Wilson, Department of Mechanical Engineering The field of mechatronics is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary, occupying the intersection of mechanical systems, electronics, controls, and computer science. Mechatronics engineers work in a variety of indust  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 30 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits the purpose of their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias. * * * By Adam Zewe, MIT News In order to train more powerful large language models, researchers use vast dataset collections that blend diverse data from thousands of web sources. But as these datase  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 29 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs. * * * By Michelle Luo, MIT Morningside Academy for Design As a mechanical engineering and theater double major, senior Alayo Oloko often finds herself at the western end of MIT's campus in Building W97, where the academic program in theater at   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 4 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: * * * New MIT Sloan research explores partisan differences in attitudes towards fact-checkers and shows that social media fact-checking warning labels are broadly effective across the political spectrum. * * * Do you trust fact-checkers? It might not matter. A new Nature Human Behaviour paper from MIT Sloan School of Management PhD candidate   more