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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. He will help lead the company’s engineering, product management, data science, machine learning, AI, user experience, data security and corporate technology teams.

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. The company raised a $6.4

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How Important Is “Perfect Data” To Data Analytics Programs?

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Back in 2014 I published a guest post on the Open Data Institute's web site titled How important is the quality of open data? The question of "where to start" on a data analytics program was another important question raised by the DorobekINSIDER attendees. Don't just recruit and hire data analysts.

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Haystax Technology (@HaystaxTech) Names Advisory Board Members (including @BobGourley and @BobFlores)

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McLean, VA – January 14, 2014 – Haystax Technology, Inc. The new advisory board members include: • Matt Bettenhausen, Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO) for AEG Worldwide. Previously, Bettenhausen served as director of the California Office of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Advisor to Gov.

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MACH37: America’s premier market-centric cybersecurity accelerator

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That goes for all high tech, but Virginia has also had very virtuous qualities when it comes to cyber security firms. At the completion of the session, cohort companies will present to professional investors to secure company funding. The program consists of two 90-day sessions per year.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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6, 2014 – In the future, when an earthquake or tsunami strikes a populated area or a terrorist attack decimates a city, teams of disaster experts partnered with robots — whose skills are being honed in rigorous competitions funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — may be the first responders. By Cheryl Pellerin.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5