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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

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The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Average salary: $170,939 Torch Torch is a scientific computing framework, scripting language, and open-source machine learning library based on the Lua programming language — and it’s often used to build and train deep neural networks.

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

CIO Business Intelligence

This is why innovation programs have become so critical to sustaining the success of enterprises. In 1994 , his open-source Netscape Navigator browser transformed the difficult-to-navigate world wide web with a user-friendly point-and-click interface. Innovation programs spur change – even to an organization’s own values.

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Fed News Roundup 16 July 2015

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Why government needs open source databases - GCN.com GCN (Today) - GCN.comWhy government needs open source databasesGCN.comRecent reports on our economy have been positive, but government agencies are still facing unprecedented financial pressures as a result of the 2008 economic crisis.

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Revolution Analytics, A Statistical Software Company, Now Part Of Microsoft

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First announced at both Revolution Analytics'' and Microsoft''s blogs, on 23 Jan 2015, the purchase of Revolution Analytics by Microsoft was done in order to help customers "find big data value with advanced statistical analysis.". Analysis CTO Big Data Computational statistics microsoft R (programming language) Revolution Analytics'

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Fed Tech Roundup September 29

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Michael Wheeless to Receive FCW 2015 Rising Star Award: Randy Fuerst Comments - GovConWire. For NGA, key to open source might be embracing uncertainty - FCW.com. New report says government privacy programs underfunded, understaffed, but that's changing. Brits demand smarter digital government services - GCN.com.

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Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions

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“We’ve heard and recognize that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not always accessible to all learners,” writes Jennifer Holland, Google’s director of education program management. “As Google launched Expeditions for its Cardboard VR viewer in 2015 , and classrooms could get boxes of Cardboard headsets for “virtual field trips.”

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