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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Girl Develop It. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.”

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Longtime Microsoft hardware leader Panos Panay is leaving the company after 19 years

GeekWire

Panay joined the company in 2004 as a program manager and rose to prominence in the tech industry as the leader of Microsoft’s Surface hardware business, overseeing the development and launch of various products such as the dual-screen Surface Duo. He also led development of Windows 11.

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Secretive new startup focuses on off-road autonomous vehicles, led by UW robotics experts

GeekWire

An autonomous Polaris vehicle equipped with sensors and computers developed by researchers at the University of Washington. UW competes with Carnegie Mellon’s National Robotics Engineering Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the DARPA program.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

CTOvision

Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. Big data and its effect on the transformative power of data analytics are undeniable.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT.

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Stratolaunch’s huge airplane aces its third flight test, building on Paul Allen’s legacy

GeekWire

If the development program proceeds as planned, Stratolaunch could begin testing its air-launched, rocket-powered Talon-A hypersonic vehicle as early as this year. The first two Talon-A hypersonic test vehicles, known as TA-0 and TA-1, are currently under development. Update for 3:55 p.m.