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Brain Surgery

Laser Vision: How GE Engineer Helped Boston Brain Surgeon Zap Cancer With A Laser Beam

Tomas Kellner
April 11, 2016
The late Harvard radiologist Ferenc Jolesz spent much of his career looking for creative ways to kill brain cancer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early 1990s, he found a promising new weapon. He decided to send a laser beam along an optical fiber threaded in the patient’s brain through a small hole in the skull. The fiber would carry the laser’s powerful light, terminate precisely at the tumor and destroy it with its intense heat.
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Boston

How GE’s Move To Boston Is Really A Homecoming

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE said in January that it will relocate its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. The company had a significant presence in the city even before the move — GE businesses ranging from Aviation and Current to Digital and Healthcare employ almost 5,000 people in the city and surrounding area. But GE’s Boston roots go to the very beginning of the company. Our video and also our photo essay tell that story.
 

 
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Boston

GE Gives $50 Million To Boston For Schools, Clinics And Job Training

Tomas Kellner
April 04, 2016
GE will give $50 million in philanthropic funding for schools, job training and healthcare to Boston, its new home.
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LED

World’s Largest LED Retrofit Will Cut Chase Bank’s Lighting Bill In Half

February 18, 2016
Banking is about to get brighter. In a deal amounting to the largest single installation of LED lights in history, some 5,000 Chase branches will replace indoor light bulbs and fluorescent tubes and outdoor lamps with over 1.4 million energy-efficient LEDs. The project will cover a projected 25 million square feet of retail banking space in total, an area nearly 40 times the size of the Louvre. The work will begin in the coming months and is expected to finish by the end of 2017.
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Davos

Klaus Schwab: The 4th Industrial Revolution: What It Means, How to Respond

Klaus Schwab Founder And Executive Chairman World Economic Forum
January 17, 2016

As the lines blur between the physical and digital, we need to ensure the technological revolution has a positive impact on society.

 
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GE

Boston Bound: GE Will Move Its Headquarters to Massachusetts

Tomas Kellner
January 13, 2016
Seeking Boston’s “diverse and technologically-fluent” talent, GE said it would move its corporate headquarters to the Massachusetts capital from Connecticut, where it’s been based for four decades. “Today, GE is a $130 billion high-tech global industrial company, one that is leading the digital transformation of industry," said GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. "We want to be at the center of an ecosystem that shares our aspirations."
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Intelligent Lighting

Swimming With Current: New Chief Digital Officer makes Intelligent Environments a Platform for Innovation

Tomas Kellner
December 07, 2015

In October, GE launched Current, a startup focusing on bringing to market a holistic energy-as-a-service offering absent from the industry today. Former IBM Watson executive John Gordon just became Current’s first chief digital officer.

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Go with Current: GE's New Energy Business Changes the Power Game

October 07, 2015
GE announced today the creation of Current, a startup that combines energy hardware with a digital backbone to make power simpler and more efficient for customers.
The company, which is backed by GE’s balance sheet, brings together GE’s LED, Solar, Energy Storage and Electric Vehicle businesses as a one-stop shop for early customers like Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton Worldwide and others.
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Dennis DeTurck and Bruce Lenthall: Transforming STEM Education

Dennis Deturck University Of Pennsylvania
Bruce Lenthall University Of Pennsylvania
December 12, 2014
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to successfully complete a loop-the-loop without leaving the track. They then do the experiment and analyze how accurate their predictions were.
 
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