Wade Roush
Wade is Chief Correspondent for Xconomy. He is a veteran science and technology writer whose recent work has focused on consumer Internet technology, including search, social computing, geocomputing, Web services, online virtual worlds, and the visual Web.
As a staff member at MIT’s
Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, Wade served as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com, and helped lead the magazine to a nomination as National Magazine Award finalist in 2006. Before joining
TR, he was the Boston bureau reporter for
Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
Wade graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. His work has appeared in
Science,
Technology Review,
IEEE Spectrum,
Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Technology and Culture,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, and
World Business, and he has been a guest of CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and NPR.
You are invited to catch up on Wade's weekly column,
World Wide Wade, read his personal blog at
Travels with Rhody, or follow his Twitter stream at
http://twitter.com/wroush. You can reach him by e-mail at wroush@xconomy.com or by phone at (617) 252-7323.
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What’s the connection between hardcore, chest-pounding video game action and Niels Bohr’s interpretation of wave-particle duality? It’s an Iranian-American physicist-turned-entrepreneur named Shahriar Afshar. Five years after Afshar announced the results of... Read more »
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The list of 37 companies named by the Department of Energy today as grant recipients in the federal government’s first-ever ARPA-E competition contained many local companies, but was topped by... Read more »
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GamerDNA, the Cambridge, MA-based startup building an online community where avid gamers can find recommendations for new games, has cut its staff nearly in half, shrinking from 13 employees to... Read more »
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Axeda, the Waltham, MA-based startup that makes a cloud-based system for wireless tracking of company assets, announced today that it has completed a $5 million Series B funding round led by... Read more »
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American Well, the Boston-based company that provides a Web-based system in use by several large health plans to let their members consult with doctors over the Internet, has raised $10... Read more »
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The Department of Energy this morning announced that FloDesign Wind Turbine of Wilbraham, MA, and five other Massachusetts startups and laboratories are among the 37 companies and organizations awarded research and... Read more »
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NetProspex, a three-year-old Waltham, MA-based startup that provides marketers with sales leads using contact information contributed by users, has completed a new equity financing round led by American City Business... Read more »
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[Updated 10/24/09 5:30 p.m. with additional interview material] All 1.6 million books digitized so far by the Internet Archive, the San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to the universal sharing... Read more »
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Xconomy didn’t score a ticket to President Obama’s speech on clean energy at MIT today, so we can’t bring you a first-hand report. But we’ve got something that’s arguably even better:... Read more »
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[Corrected 3:35 p.m 10/23/09] Wind Power Holdings, the parent company of Barre, VT-based wind turbine developer Northern Power Systems, intends to raise $45 million in a new private equity... Read more »
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The inventor of the World Wide Web has arrived, somewhat belatedly, in the Twitterverse. Tim Berners-Lee, head of the Cambridge, MA-based World Wide Web Consortium, set up a Twitter account... Read more »
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[Update, 12:05 p.m., 10/23/09: The time for President Obama's speech has been pushed back to 12:25 p.m., according to the White House. It appears that MIT's video servers are... Read more »
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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick traveled to Holyoke, MA, yesterday to talk about the next steps for the planned Holyoke High Performance Computing Center, a massive project designed to advance the state... Read more »
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Luminus Devices in Billerica, MA, may hold the record among Massachusetts technology companies for the shortest time between conception and launch. But the journey since then has been anything but straightforward.... Read more »
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Rapid7, the Boston- and El Segundo, CA-based startup that makes software to protect corporate networks, databases, and Web applications from hostile outsiders, said today that it has acquired the Metasploit... Read more »
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Revolution Computing, which has offices in New Haven, CT, and Seattle, said today that it has raised $9 million in venture financing from North Bridge Venture Partners of Waltham, MA,... Read more »
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North Shore Innoventures, a Beverly, MA-based network of technology incubators, announced today that it has opened a new “Cleantech Innoventure Center” in Lynn, MA. Established with funding from... Read more »
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For 15 years now, we’ve all thought of the World Wide Web as a near-literal web of connections between millions of servers in different locations, with each machine hosting just a... Read more »
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In a joint announcement, Austin, TX-based Freescale Semiconductor and Cambridge, MA-based E Ink–which makes the “electronic ink” displays used in the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, and other e-book devices—said... Read more »
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Boston-based Currensee announced today that it’s opening its online community for foreign currency traders to all comers, after nearly six months of private beta testing. The company also said that it... Read more »
