Are you a physician, innovator, or entrepreneur with a commercial idea that might be a startup? Join us for this half-day event to discuss today’s unique challenges for life science, medical, and health entrepreneurs starting companies and raising capital. Learn from some of the leading...

Please join us for our February Robotics Roundtable at the new UMass Lowell NERVE. We will be discussing the 2013 calendar and initiatives. The meeting will include a briefing on the new MassTLC Robotics Report, which will officially be launching that day.  After the meeting stay for the...

Join us for Labs Open House: February 12, 2013, 4-6pm Looking for the newest techniques to optimize your front-end design and code for conversions and registrations? Is your product’s mobile experience driving your users up the wall? Want a peek at the latest web and mobile APIs that will transform...

The Pitch Contest consists of two rounds of selection.  In the first round, applications are evaluated anonymously by a group of area business leaders.  Ten finalists will be selected from among the applicants and invited to compete at the Venture Forum’s final meeting of the season,...

Agenda   Richard Mallah, Cambridge Semantics: Leveraging Semantics for Text Mining and Text Analytics Semantic web technologies provide the operational meaning and flexibility to both aid the process of text analytics and unlock the potential of that analysis. Linked Data, OWL, and...

Go Botany – Using eCommerce Techniques to “Sell” Science” Abstract We didn’t set out to “sell” science, we were trying to create a great way for people, including kids, to connect with the science of botany. We did the usual steps – interviewing users, creating personas, making sketches....

Please RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Facebook-Developers/events/98954312/The Facebook Open Graph API enables apps to publish user interactions (e.g. "took a photo", "listened to a song") to the user's News Feed, Ticker, and Timeline. Integrating with the Open Graph unlocks vibrant...

$20 admission fee includes complimentary food and drinksCelebrate Mardi Gras in a special way. We know as entrepreneurs you often entertain and host events with current, potential and future clients. Join us for an exclusive tasting from top mixologists on perfecting that special cocktail. Learn...

Developing mobile apps can involve a lot of new and unexpected challenges. Beyond needing to learn a whole new programming language (Objective C for iPhone, or Java for Android), one common complaint among new app developers is that the development environments for those languages are...

Java and Documents: PDF Parsing to Make Reflection Your Compliant Minion by Steve Hawley   Abstract The Adobe Portable Document Format is a deceptively simple format that lends itself to obvious Java parsing solutions, which guarantee either hard to read code or fragile code or both....