BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance, a provider of commercial property, casualty, healthcare and executive and professional lines and marine insurance, issued the following news release: * * * BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY SPECIALTY INSURANCE LAUNCHES LIFE SCIENCE, BIOTECH & PHARMACEUTICAL (LBP) MANAGEMENT LIABILITY POLICY IN AUSTRALIA BOSTON, SYDNEY, June 9, 2025 - Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced the introduction of a Management Liabil  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 11 (TNSrep) -- Akamai Technologies, a provider of content delivery network services, issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * DDoS Attackers Increase Targeting of Global Financial Sector, According to FS-ISAC and Akamai Report Financial sector is the top industry for volumetric DDoS attacks; sophisticated, precision-targeted threats are growing * FS-ISAC, the member-driven, not-for-profit organization that advances cybersecurity and resilience  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 9 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Faces of MIT: Lorena Tovar * Lorena Tovar is an assistant director for academic programs for the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), where she runs the Master in City Planning (MCP) program. A longtime employee of MIT, she has gained a great breadth of institutional knowledge and values in the course of making connections with and supporting both faculty and student  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * How we really judge AI * Suppose you were shown that an artificial intelligence tool offers accurate predictions about some stocks you own. How would you feel about using it? Now, suppose you are applying for a job at a company where the HR department uses an AI system to screen resumes. Would you be comfortable with that? A new study finds that people are neither entirely enthus  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Inroads to personalized AI trip planning * Travel agents help to provide end-to-end logistics -- like transportation, accommodations, meals, and lodging -- for businesspeople, vacationers, and everyone in between. For those looking to make their own arrangements, large language models (LLMs) seem like they would be a strong tool to employ for this task because of their ability to i  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Melding data, systems, and society * Research that crosses the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines, and boundaries between academia, industry, and government, is increasingly widespread, and has sometimes led to the spawning of significant new disciplines. But Munther Dahleh, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, says that such multidisciplin  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * MIT has an unparalleled history of bringing together interdisciplinary teams to solve pressing problems -- think of the development of radar during World War II, or leading the international coalition that cracked the code of the human genome -- but the challenge of climate change could demand a scale of collaboration unlike any that's come before at MIT. "Solving climate change is n  more

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, June 10 [Category: BizConsulting] -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, posted the following news release: * * * MITRE and Gambit Partner to Advance Autonomous Systems for Homeland and National Security * McLean, Va., and Bedford, Mass., June 10, 2025 - MITRE and Gambit (link is external) announced a strategic partnership to transform the deployment and safe use of autonomous ground and aerial veh  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Once-a-week pill for schizophrenia shows promise in clinical trials * For many patients with schizophrenia, other psychiatric illnesses, or diseases such as hypertension and asthma, it can be difficult to take their medicine every day. To help overcome that challenge, MIT researchers have developed a pill that can be taken just once a week and gradually releases medication from wit  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 11 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release: * * * Pega Named a Leader in AI Decisioning Platforms by Independent Research Firm Pega's AI-powered decisioning and workflow automation capabilities recognized with highest scores possible in all strategy criteria * WALTHAM, Mass - June 10, 2025 - Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company, today announced Forrester Research   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 10 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Recovering from the past and transitioning to a better energy future * As the frequency and severity of extreme weather events grow, it may become increasingly necessary to employ a bolder approach to climate change, warned Emily A. Carter, the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. Carter made her case for why the energy transition is  more

NEW YORK, June 11 -- Skanska, a construction and development company, issued the following news release on June 10, 2025: * * * Skanska awarded $303M contract to replace Rourke Bridge in Lowell, Massachusetts LOWELL, MA - Skanska, a leading global construction and development firm, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) to carry out the $303 million design-build of a new, relocated Rourke Bridge carrying Wood Street over  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 10 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * Through Instagram, BU Deaf Studies Empowers the Deaf Community Accounts focus on research, student life, and public outreach; "All of the posts have impacted someone who is in need." By Amy Laskowski There's one post on Instagram explaining financial literacy research that helps deaf students build money skills. There's a story of a Boston University professor who learned American Sign Language (ASL) so she  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 9 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Universal nanosensor unlocks the secrets to plant growth * Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology have developed the world's first near-infrared fluorescent nanosensor capable of real-time, nondestructive, and species-agnostic detec  more

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts, June 9 [Category: BizEngineering] -- Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc., a provider of transportation planning, engineering, design, land development and environmental services, posted the following news: * * * VHB Honored with Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Awards * Preservation Massachusetts recently recognized VHB with two prestigious Mayor Thomas M. Menino Legacy Awards, acknowledging the firm's work on the Lincoln School in Brockton and the McElwain School in Bridgew  more