Web Premiere: On-Line Tech Tax

Springfield Attorney Scott Foster, who specializes in business and entrepreneurial law, played a key role in the challenge of the Massachusetts so called “Tech Tax.” He sat down with Connecting Point’s Jim Madigan to discuss why he feels the...

Lying Online

Psychology Professor Robert Feldman, Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Amherst,  discusses his paper “Liar, Liar, Hard Drive on Fire: How Media Context Affects Lying Behavior” and his finding that people are more likely to lie in...

Healthy Eating with Apps

For most, it’s relatively easy to eat healthy food when you’re at home and have the time to shop and plan a meal, but how about when you are out and about? UMass Chef Simon Stevenson takes a look at how you can use technology to eat healthy while on the run in today’s...

Movies in the Digital Age

In the era of Netflix, satellite TV,  downloading and streaming on the web, people are watching movies in different ways. We take a look at how some brick and mortar DVD stores that are still hanging on, and why people are still going out to the theater to see...

Cyber Attacks

  UMass Prof.essor Emery Berger discusses recent cyber-terrorism directed against major financial institutions including Capitol One, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan Chase and others. How can this impact or possibly damage the economy and what does this mean for...

Holyoke Computing Center

With the construction of a new $168 million high-performance computing center in Holyoke, what does it mean for the Paper City?  Correspondent Carolee McGrath looks at the economic offshoot this project will bring and what it will mean for the people who live in one...

Douglas Trumbull

Veteran Hollywood director, special effects designer, and Berkshires resident Douglas Trumbull talks with Producer Tony Dunne and Videographer Mark Langevin about his career and the new technology he’s working on to move motion pictures into the...

Robotic Team

Instructor Eric Duda, Junior students Bernadette Dineen and Kyle Lussier,and senior Jacob Moriarty and 2 robots from Pathfinder Regional Vocational/Technical H.S. in Palmer will discuss their double-victory at the recent state Robotics Championship competition....

Lying Online

Psychology Prof. Robert Feldman, Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at UMass Amherst, will discuss his paper “Liar, Liar, Hard Drive on Fire: How Media Context Affects Lying Behavior” and his finding that people are more likely to lie in...

New Media and Businesses

John Garvey, principal and Mary Fallon, Media Director of Springfield-based Garvey Communication Associates will discuss the importance of businesses being on the web and being savvy about social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Garvey Communication...

Cyber Terrorism

University of Massachusetts Prof. Emery Berger discusses the danger of cyber terror attacks against the United States. Prof. Beger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UMass. His research focuses on systems that transparently improve...