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Josh Feast Answers the Call with AI

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This week on JobMakers, Guest Host Jo Napolitano talks with Josh Feast, the CEO and Co-Founder of Cogito, a Boston-based software company that deploys Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help employers in a wide variety of industries improve their customer service call centers. They discuss the many applications of Artificial Intelligence, how it helps provide emotional intelligence to augment management practices at large organizations, and how to address some of the concerns about privacy and bias that have been raised around its use.

BU’s Dr. Farouk El-Baz on NASA’s Moon Landing, Remote Sensing, & STEM

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This week on “The Learning Curve,” Gerard and Cara talk with Dr. Farouk El-Baz, retired research professor and director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University. They discuss his remarkable, varied, and pioneering career in the sciences, surveying both the heavens and the Earth, and key teachers and scientists who have influenced him. Dr. El-Baz shares what it was like serving as supervisor of Lunar Science Planning for NASA’s Apollo program, and working on the world-changing project of putting a human on the Moon.

Neptune’s Domain – Oceans, Seas, & Their Creatures- 25 Resources for K-12 Students

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Since water is all around us and in us, students should know more about the major bodies of water that shape our planet and our lives, including: what we eat, how we travel, our trade, our wars, and the many fascinating creatures who live in the oceans and seas. In fact, scientists estimate that 91 percent of ocean species remain unclassified, and over eighty percent of our ocean is unmapped and unexplored. We clearly have more work ahead of us to better understand the water that covers most of our world. To assist in this aquatic discovering, mapping, and exploring, we’re offering a variety of resources to help parents, teachers, and K-12 students.

Open Letter: Extend the Term of the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board

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Read Pioneer Institute’s Open Letter urging policymakers to extend the term of the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB), which is currently scheduled to sunset at the end of June.  The Letter also calls for the Control Board to continue to be made up of transit experts rather than political appointees, and recommends that an independent audit office be created that reports directly to the FMCB.

Additional Resources – Neptune’s Domain – Oceans, Seas, & Their Creatures – 25 Resources for K-12 Students

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Ocean: A Visual Encyclopedia, by DK Publishing The Cod’s Tale, by Mark Kurlansky (Author) and S. D. Schindler (Illustrator) Where Is the Great Barrier Reef?, by Nico Medina The Kraken’s Rules for Making Friends, by Brittany R. Jacobs  Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?, by Megan Stine Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map, by Joseph Nigg 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne Oceanology: The Secrets of the Sea Revealed, by DK Strange Sea Creatures, by Erich Hoyt The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans, by David Abulafia Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, by Simon Winchester Cod: A Biography of the Fish that […]