Next generation neutron detection systems
Wednesday evening, a crowd of the city’s top innovators and East Coast industry leaders spilled into District Hall in the Seaport for The Challenge Cup, a seven month-long, 16-city startup competition. Leading the initiative is none other than 1776, a novel yet fast-growing incubator hailing from our nation’s capital in Washington D.C. (Read the entire story at BostInno)
Silverside Detectors received a $50K award from MassChallenge at the Awards Ceremony, held on 30 October 2013. Silverside was one of 10 Gold Winners (selected from a field of over 1200 initial applications), coming out of the four-month accelerator program that arms early-stage companies with the resources and mentors needed to execute on their vision. […]
1. The threat is real and present. We’re not fear mongers; we’re realists. In 2006, the Lugar Survey on Proliferation Threats and Responses [.pdf] (a report issued by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) polled 85 national security experts on the estimated risk of a nuclear attack during the next 10 years. The […]
“Silverside Detectors Inc. has developed a new kind of nuclear bomb detector to reduce the threat of nuclear terrorism.” When we open a conversation with that bombshell (so to speak), the most typical reaction is a stunned expression. It’s not easy to focus on a problem that most people understand only in an abstract way, […]
Should the threat of a nuclear terrorist attack be on our collective radar screen? What is the probability of such an attack actually happening? Does the clean track record mean that the threat is low, that existing systems are working, or that we’re just really lucky? The international efforts for nuclear threat reduction are not […]
One Marina Park, 14th floor, MassChallenge Headquarters, and Silverside’s new home. Yesterday, 128 finalists were chosen from the roughly 1200 that applied for the MassChallenge 2013 Accelerator program. A company we started called Silverside Detectors Inc. was accepted into the program. Silverside is trying to solve a hard problem: how do we make our cities […]
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