DETROIT – Some 1,500 people from across the globe are expected to attend the Sustainable Brands conference this week at Cobo Center, which was recently recertified to the American Society for Testing and Materials International Venue Standard, the premier global sustainability standard for the meetings and event industry. Cobo Center, Detroit’s main convention and exhibition venue
LANSING - The Institute For Public Policy and Social Research is hosting an event March 29 briefing to provide an update on what’s happening with the development of autonomous vehicles in the Great Lakes Region. Called “Autonomous Vehicles: Where Research and Innovation Hit the Road,” researchers and manufacturers in the business and transportation industry, policy
NEW YORK - Cancer is caused by mistakes in DNA, and a new study finds that in most cancer cases, these mistakes are completely random; they're not due to heredity or environmental factors, but rather the result of random errors. The mistakes, or mutations, cause cancer to happen because even a tiny error in DNA
WASHINGTON DC - The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation met this week to hear testimony from unmanned aircraft systems experts, officials and interested parties. To explain the work the FAA has completed, started or continues with, Earl Lawrence, director of the office of unmanned aircraft systems for the Federal Aviation Administration, offered
DETROIT - Real-time video surveillance solutions provided in a pilot program by Comcast Business through its SmartOffice suite has been credited by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan for much of the success of Project Green Light that uses the high-definition video feeds from nearly 120 partnering businesses to fight crime. "Without the complete video technology system
TROY - Managed Way announced it has established a Point-of-Presence at the Canada151 Data Center in Toronto, creating an international connection. The partnership is a milestone in ManagedWay's strategy to establish a strong partner ecosystem in major North American market hubs. The PoP site launched with 10G IP services installed (up to 100G available on
SOUTHFIELD – Comau and LIFT – Lightweight Innovations For Tomorrow, opened the doors Thursday to a new LIFT Lab inside the Comau Innovation Center in Southfield. The 1,000-sq. ft. facility will serve as an extension of LIFT’s Corktown research center providing additional collaborative space for LIFT members and partners to conduct lightweighting research along with
SOUTHFIELD - Civil Rights law expert Jocelyn Benson will keynote the Detroit Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications 2017 Matrix Awards on May 18, honoring achievement in communications. The annual awards ceremony will take place at Plum Hollow Country Club in Southfield. Benson, CEO of the Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality, served for
SOUTHFIELD - ImageSoft, which offers paperless court products, announced Thursday a partnership with the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction to improve the use of technology in legal education. CALI developed A2J Author, a cloud-based tool that helps self-representing litigants more easily complete and print documents in preparation for filing. A2J Author provides Guided Interviews which
ANN ARBOR - Actifio, an Enterprise Data-as-a-Service (EDaaS) company, on Tuesday announced it had partnered with Online Tech, a specialist in hybrid IT and cloud services. The partnership will equip Online Tech clients with the agility they need with an easily manageable long-term data retention solution and the ability to recover large data sets instantly.
