Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud services provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Akamai's content delivery network is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms, responsible for serving between 15 and 30 percent of all web traffic. The company operates a network of servers around the world and rents capacity on these servers to customers who want their websites to work faster by distributing content from locations close to the user. Over the years its customers have included Apple, Facebook, Bing, Twitter, eBay, Google, LinkedIn and healthcare.gov. When a user navigates to the URL of an Akamai customer, their browser is redirected to one of Akamai's copies of the website.The company was founded in 1998 by Daniel M. Lewin (then a graduate student at MIT) and MIT applied mathematics professor Tom Leighton. Lewin was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed in the September 11 attacks of 2001. Leighton currently serves as Akamai's CEO.
The Cambridge Coworking Community (C3) is a collaborative community work space located inside Kendall Square’s Cambridge Innovation Center with the goal of supporting the many and diverse needs of it’s clients. Ideal for startups, freelancers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs who want the "power of community,” C3 provides a variety of secured shared & personal working areas, huddle & conference rooms, whiteboard walls, WiFi, printing/faxing/scanning stations, personal storage, and a fully stocked kitchen for $350 per month per person.
ThriveHive is a powerful all-in-one marketing platform that enables small businesses to create great marketing programs that are custom built for your business and your budget. Coupled with the ThriveHive platform, we provide skilled marketing experts we call HivePros to help guide and support you as little or as much as you need. Find us on Twitter: @thrive_hive Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+Thrivehive LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/thrivehive?trk=hb_tab_compy_id_2237890
The Collaborative’ s Board of Directors and Program Partners include national leaders in government, industry, academia, and environmental advocacy. Our work is non-partisan and framed by four organizing principles: • Over-dependence on fossil fuels has immediate, cumulative, and systemic impacts on human health, the environment, and national security. America must aggressively pursue cleaner, more sustainable and secure energy pathways now. • Offshore wind, an abundant renewable resource close to major load centers, is the best opportunity for coastal and Great Lakes regions to make a significant contribution to the nation’s energy portfolio. Taking on the short-term challenges associated with building this new clean energy industry will yield long-term energy, environmental and economic benefits. • Market-scale offshore wind development has transformative economic potential: industrial scale job creation, new manufacturing, advanced transmission, and revitalized maritime infrastructure. Realizing this potential requires a long-term, market-based, sustainable industrial development strategy. • Seizing the offshore wind opportunity calls for regional infrastructure and deployment approaches, supported by national clean energy policy and federal investment. Individual state action alone is not enough to build a cost-competitive domestic offshore wind industry.
The mission of the Venture Café Foundation consists of three pillars: - Building and connecting communities of innovation locally, nationally, and internationally. - Expanding the definition of innovation and entrepreneurship. They are not just about making apps . - Building a more inclusive innovation economy. We want to make sure that questions about inequality and inclusion are part of the innovation and entrepreneurship conversation –not an afterthought.
More than 1-in-3 people will have cancer in their lifetime. Even more eye opening is that tiny, microscopic cancers are developing in our bodies all the time, even before we are old. It is whether blood vessels near these dormant tumors are held in check or instead grow that determines if the cancer will expand and spread. Angiogenesis is the name of the natural process that blood vessels grow in the body. How important are these vessels? The healthy body maintains its blood vessels in a continuous state of balance. Cancer develops into a disease when abnormal cells overcome this balanced state and new blood vessels grow to feed cancers. But these blood vessels are also cancer's Achilles Heel. Cutting off a tumor’s blood supply starves it of oxygen and nutrients. Forty years of research has now resulted in modern drugs that effectively combat cancer through anti-angiogenesis. These drugs effectively starve growing cancers in a way totally different from toxic chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. Novel drugs based on this unique approach have been successfully tested in thousands of patients, been approved by the FDA and other drug agencies throughout the world and have helped increase the survival and quality of life of people living with cancer. The anti-angiogenesis approach has been proven to be an effective in fighting cancers. Targeting angiogenesis also provides an opportunity to prevent cancer. Certain foods contain natural molecules that can suppress abnormally growing blood vessels. What separates Eat to Beat is its focus on what you should add to your diet, rather than what to eliminate.
NEHI (Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) is a health policy institute focused on enabling innovation that will improve health care quality and lower health care costs. Working in partnership with members from across the health care system, NEHI brings an objective, collaborative and fresh voice to health policy. We combine the collective vision of our diverse membership and our independent, evidence-based research to move ideas into action.
The Veritas Forum invites students and faculty to ask life's hardest questions. With a commitment to courageous discourse we put the historic Christian faith in dialogue with other beliefs and invite participants from all backgrounds to pursue Truth together. Founded at Harvard in 1992, The Veritas Forum now partners on dialogues at over 130 leading universities in North America and Europe. Past presenters include Francis Collins, Tim Keller, N. T. Wright, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Singer, Nicholas Kristof, Cornel West, Condoleezza Rice, Steven Pinker, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.
EyeCanDoIt.org is a patient-friendly web resource about vision awareness for patients with diabetes.
The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), a non-profit multi-sector alliance working in the public interest, brings together diverse stakeholders from across the clinical research enterprise and harnesses their expertise and investments to collaboratively build an open, integrated global system, based in principles of Accountable Research™. This system, employing integrated information technologies and interoperable standards, policies and practices across the global drug development enterprise, will enhance safety, quality and efficiency worldwide and industry-wide to benefit all stakeholders, especially patients.
Brazilian Connection to Knowledge, Innovation and Creativity Our mission is to connect Brazilian scientists, artists and entrepreneurs working abroad and to mobilize their talents to create a more prosperous, fair and sustainable Brazil.
TEL is dedicated to bringing communities out of poverty by driving the adoption of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions that improve the lives at the bottom of the pyramid. We host a crowdsourced database of over 600 innovations in order to connect practical solutions to the people who need them most. Through our Project Accelerator service, we help NGOs and communities leverage appropriate technology solutions to maximize the impact of last-mile development.
My mom, Margaret, was diagnosed in October, 2007 with Stage III Ovarian Cancer. Our family was devastated and had no idea about Ovarian Cancer. After learning more than we ever wanted to know, we realized my mom experienced all the symptoms – bloating, pelvic or abdominal pain, trouble eating or feeling full quickly, feeling the need to urinate urgently or often. After 11 months filled with doctors’ appointments, treatments, and side effects, my mom lost her battle on September 19, 2008. During the last three years of grieving, I had wanted to do something to honor my mother, but couldn’t decide what effort would be worthy of my mom’s name...until this fall. In September 2011, I launched a non-profit organization, Margaret’s Mission for Ovarian Cancer Awareness, to sponsor an initiative to obtain the first Ovarian Cancer Awareness specialty license plate in Massachusetts. In order for the Massachusetts Department of Motor Vehicles to begin manufacturing the Ovarian Cancer Awareness specialty license plate, we must obtain 750 pre-paid orders for the plate. Although the rate at which we are receiving applications is slow, we are dedicated to this effort and sure that we will reach this goal. The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness of Ovarian Cancer to educate women (and those who love them) about the symptoms and the importance of early detection, which can save lives. It is my hope that people will see this plate, Google it and learn all about this devastating disease to extend the lives of women, both young and old.
OLE realizes that there is no ‘one size fits all’ answer when it comes to improving education. We are therefore committed to implementing customized learning solutions — and to providing local educators with the essential training to foster successful employment of these processes. In order to do this, we maintain a ‘catalogue’ of robust learning solutions that can be adapted to fit a wide variety of educational needs and contexts.
The Clean Energy Prize innovation and entrepreneurship competition awards over $400,000 in prizes to cutting-edge startups from universities across the US. We prepare tomorrow's clean energy leaders by advancing their relationships with academic, community, industry, and government players to help them meet the world’s pressing energy challenges. The CEP is generously sponsored by: Title Sponsor: NSTAR Gigawatt Sponsors: GE and GDF Suez Legal Sponsor: Morrison and Foerster Megawatt Sponsors: Factor(E) and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Based within MIT’s School of Engineering’s Engineering Systems Division, the AgeLab has assembled a multi-disciplinary team of researchers, business partners, universities, and the aging community to design, develop and deploy innovations that touch nearly all aspects of how we will live, work and play tomorrow.