Wade Roush, a longtime technology journalist and outreach officer for the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, said he cringed a little when he saw the STAT headline, out of concern that it could reinforce the views of people who are already suspicious of vaccines.
Date: Nov 27, 2015
Category: Health
Source: Google
Report: Google Buying Seattle Startup Wavii to Augment Knowledge Graph
As part of the deal, Aoun and Waviis two dozen employees will reportedly relocate to join Googles Knowledge Graph team, which is building Googles second brain, as my colleague Wade Roush put it in an in-depth profile of the effort last December.
Date: Apr 23, 2013
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
GrabCAD Grabs $8M from Charles River Ventures, Yammer's David Sacks
The involvement of CRV and Yammers Sacks adds an interesting new wrinkle. (You can read an in-depth interview with Sacks after the Yammer acquisition by my colleague Wade Roush.) Yammer is anotable example of social Web technology being applied successfully to the enterprise software market. So lo