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gender gap

3 Responsibilities For Men And Women To Close The Gender Gap

Sue Siegel
October 03, 2016

How do you talk about the gender gap with male colleagues and our children? Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures, discusses our shared responsibility to close the gender gap -- and her biggest professional mistake. The following column is based on her recent remarks during the Babson Breakaway Challenge, the first and only competition to promote gender parity in the VC industry.

 

 
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Robotics

Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages

April 11, 2016
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a poet, thought of robota, the Czech word for forced labor, and told Karel to call them robots.
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Someone’s Gotta Do It: This Collaborative Robot Does the Dull Jobs Few Humans Want

January 21, 2015
A manufacturing robot is hardly chummy chap. Set off from its flesh-and-blood coworkers inside a safety cage, its powerful metal biceps easily lift, weld and shape massive machine parts. People can watch it in awe from a distance, but they better keep away or risk injury.
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Taming North Dakota’s Gas Flares

September 10, 2014
A few years ago, astronauts orbiting the Earth started seeing a strange patch of lights flickering in a formerly dark corner of North Dakota. The region is going through an oil boom and the lights, which are spread over an area larger than Minneapolis, are flares burning up natural gas from hundreds of new oil wells in the Bakken shale formation.
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Testing the Water: RainDance is Stalking Cancer Drop by Drop

March 03, 2014

RainDance Technologies is developing new “liquid biopsy” systems using tiny droplets separated by oil to analyze DNA. Researchers using the technology are evaluating its ability to identify whether the samples may contain cancer, viruses, pathogens and markers released by the immune system.

The new tools could allow doctors to test tumors and cancer cells with a simple needle prick. RainDance, which is based in Billerica, Mass, just received a new $16.5 million round of financing from a group of investors including GE’s venture capital arm, GE Ventures.

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It’s Not Brain Surgery: These Earbuds Can Measure Brain Pressure, NoDrills Required

July 08, 2013
In 1953, Russian archaeologist A. D. Stolyar excavated a group of 14 skeletons from a Mesolithic cemetery near Kiev, Ukraine. One of the skulls found at the 7,000 year-old site showed signs of trepanning, the surgical removal of a small piece of bone from the cranium.
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Fantastic Voyage: GE Invests in Bowel Surfing Capsule that May Help Doctors Detect Colon Cancer

February 03, 2012
There are better ways to pass time than prepping for a colonoscopy. This week, the GE healthymagination fund invested in Israeli company called Check-Cap Ltd. seeking to change that experience.
Inside knowledge: Check-Cap’s capsule may help doctors screen for polyps, the precursors of colorectal cancer.
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