Features Region: Northeast

Any chief information security officer who believes he or she can ease up on the job ought to think again. So reminds Dr. Trebor Z. Evans, who makes a mission out of securing data while enabling the business operations at the Pittsburgh-based Dollar Bank. “You can’t be too comfortable for a moment,” the ever-businesslike Evans […]

In the past, a patient might go days—even weeks—before knowing the results of their scan. At Pennsylvania’s Geisinger Health, the clinical team are using a specific kind of machine learning, known as tensor flow, to take a deeper, on-the-spot dive into radiology scans—deep enough to notice things they weren’t even looking for. If a tumor […]

There’s something major in the high-tech mix that’s soon to be unveiled by Sharp Electronics Corp., but Associate Vice President and CIO Tom McElligott wasn’t about to let the details slip during a chat with Toggle in early August. Still, while listening to the Irish-born McElligott expand on what a dynamic industry info-tech is, one […]

It’s not a revelation that technology is a powerful tool that engages students, but Kristine Bewley has been awed by just how true it is. Now equipped with Chromebooks, students in grades 3 through 12 at Red Clay Consolidated School District are “super involved” in their curriculum; they take initiative, go out and do their […]

When it comes to cyberdefense in that perpetual war between the white and black hats of info-tech, there’s no Great Wall of China. So reminds Gregory J. Turner, the CIO and senior vice president of services for IT seller and solutions provider MTM Technologies in Stamford, Connecticut. Even if there were, he explains, it would […]

High-tech oversight of more than 600 properties in the United States and United Kingdom needed upgrading. In-house, legacy software was an impediment to efficiency. So last year, Liberty Property Trust looked to bring aboard an info-tech boss who could help on all fronts, settling on James Kurek, an IT veteran of a quarter-century, whose background […]

There might be irony in the technology boss of metro New York City’s premier independent grocery wholesaler being old school, but Steven Laskowitz seems so comfy the way he’s always been. “Information, efficiencies, services and accommodations” is how he describes the business model of Krasdale Foods, and the unpretentious and lighthearted Laskowitz would know. After […]

Thirty years ago, the most obvious sign that your local bowling alley had arrived on the cutting edge was whether those old-fashioned score cards—hand written on plastic sheets and projected onto a blurry screen—had finally been replaced by a keyboard. Today, America’s 10-pin pastime is in the midst of a full-on makeover, powered by high-tech […]

Having completed the exceedingly rare Triple Crown on June 9 at Belmont Park, Justify didn’t make it to the Saratoga Race Course for the start of its 40-day summer season the following month. Seems the prize thoroughbred’s right front leg was swollen and his owners didn’t want to put him at further risk. Besides, Justify […]

Simita Mishra has a vision for what she says is the not-so-distant future of health care. It’s one in which patients will have the tools to monitor and manage their health and well-being—all while keeping their physicians informed and in the loop. Providers, in turn, will be able to access resources to not only keep […]