ProfNet Experts Available on Interest Rates, Swarm Robotics, More

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EXPERT ALERTS

• Administration Change Good Time for Fed to Raise Interest Rate
• Planning for Health Care Expenses in Retirement
• Swarm Robotics

MEDIA JOBS

• Engagement Editor – Honeyguide Media (NY)
• Producer – Bloomberg Radio (NY)
• Politics Reporter – The Independent (DC)

OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES

• 5 Things to Know About Branded Content
• Real-World Application: How Innovative Apps Are Driving News Overseas
• Blog Profiles: Home Improvement Blogs

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EXPERT ALERTS:

Administration Change Good Time for Fed to Raise Interest Rate
Kyle J. McCauley
Managing Partner
City Center Financial, LLC
The Federal Reserve's plan to raise interest rates is not a surprise, given the administration change this year, says McCauley: "The administration change from Barack Obama to Donald Trump is the perfect time for the Federal Reserve to change policy and begin raising interest rates"
Based in Troy, Mich., McCauley is a Certified APMA from the College for Financial Planning.
ProfNet Profile: http://www.profnetconnect.com/Kyle_McCauley
Website: www.citycenterfinancial.com
Expert Contact: [email protected]

Planning for Health Care Expenses in Retirement
Jeffrey Swett
Founder and Financial Advisor
The Swett Wealth Management Group
"One tool available to people to help plan for health care expenses in retirement is a long-term care insurance plan. These plans can help pay for health care expenses not covered by Medicare or Medicaid, such as in home care, a nursing home, assisted living, etc. It is best to consider buying a long-term care policy at least a few years before you retire."
Named one of Financial Times' Top 400 Financial Advisors in the country, Swett is available to discuss economy changes with the election, retirement planning and advice, employee stock option plans, 401(k)s, IRAs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, women's investing hurdles, millennial investing advice, planning for care of an elderly family member, health care, when to retire, financial literacy with young adults and mentoring. He is based in Boston.
Website: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/team/swettgroup/
Contact: Lauren Scarlett, [email protected]

Swarm Robotics
Carlo Pinciroli
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
According to a recent segment on "60 Minutes," the use of artificial intelligence is revolutionizing United States military tactics. One area of particular interest is swarm robotics, a new approach to the coordination of large groups of relatively simple robots. In swarms, these robots can perform complex tasks in a more efficient way than a single robot. A key to the swarm successfully completing their tasks is communication between the robots. Says Pinciroli: "Swarm robotics promises to offer solutions for application scenarios that today are either too expensive, too impractical, or too complex to achieve, such as disaster recovery, ocean restoration, space exploration, smart agriculture, and construction. As the demand grows, research is moving away from the purely natural inspiration that gave swarm robotics its first impulse. The current challenge is the formulation of new methods that allow practitioners, as well as newcomers, to design swarm systems of increasing complexity."
Pinciroli has been studying this technology for years and has developed a programming language, called Buzz, that can be used in all swarm systems, whether the robots are on land or in the air. His articles have been published in MIT Technology Review, Communications of the ACM, RoboHub, and IEEE Computer. He is fluent in Italian and French.
Website: www.wpi.edu
Contact: Colleen Wamback, [email protected]

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• Politics Reporter – The Independent (DC)

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• 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT BRANDED CONTENT. Branded content is going to have its heyday in 2017 and we'll see brands who formerly invested in traditional advertising start to pour dollars into relevant, useful content in an effort to connect with their customers. Here's what you need to know about this rising trend: http://prn.to/2jJyLsR   
• REAL-WORLD APPLICATION: HOW INNOVATIVE APPS ARE DRIVING NEWS OVERSEAS. We've all heard these words before: "There's an app for that." You even may have said this a couple of times yourself. Today, developers can build applications around anything to manage your needs. This definitely holds true for the publishing world, where news organizations constantly are challenged to provide content to readers hungry for breaking information and features. Here are some apps that are making inroads into newsrooms around the globe: http://bit.ly/2jzKFaL  
• BLOG PROFILES: HOME IMPROVEMENT BLOGS. Each week, PR Newswire's Audience Relations team selects an industry or subject and a handful of sites that do a good job with promoting and contributing to the conversation. This week, they look at feminist blogs: http://prn.to/2j5TUvr   

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