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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

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College of William and Mary (Williamsburg), Developing Sonic Net Technology to Reduce the Risks of Bird-Aircraft Collision , Dr. John Swaddle, $99,781. Proposals underwent a four-step review process beginning with guideline compliance performed by CIT and followed by a review by subject matter experts from industry, academia and government.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

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Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Car Site & Car Culture : 100 years making history by HOY.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

The Verge

Former Facebook employees working at the political nonprofit Acronym are hoping to harness the platform’s power to defeat President Trump. International ethics groups designing guidelines for artificial intelligence consist mostly of people based in Europe or the United States. Brent Kendall, John D. Arielle Pardes / Wired ).

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

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uprising is very unlikely and very far in the future, we still need to think about it, design precautionary measures, and establish guidelines,” he writes. Disclosure: MIRI is a nonprofit and I donated to its work in 2017-2019.). Even if the risk of an A.I. That’s not to say there’s an expert consensus here — far from it.