CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

And the pipeline doesn’t suggest a near-term correction, as only 19% of computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2016, down from 27% in 1997. 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.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Paul Allen, at right, looks over a slice of brain tissue with Allan Jones, CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, in 2016. Swedish has appointed Douglas Kieper as interim program director. Swedish Health Services, which is part of Providence, is the largest nonprofit health provider in the Seattle area. Vulcan Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

” Karim Meghji , who became CTO in October 2020 and joined Remitly in 2016, will transition into an executive advisory role at the end of February. iUrban Teen , a STEM+Arts program for underrepresented teens, announced new directors.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Black Code Collective The Black Code Collective (BCC) was started in 2016 to create a safe space and community for Black software engineers. She wanted to provide a way for founders of color with limited resources to get the training and resources to support their business idea, helping them grow their businesses without outside funding.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A study spanning 2016-2020 found that chronic homelessness had increased at an annual rate of 27% statewide and 42% in Seattle-King County. While the homelessness-related fund has publicly issued four rounds of grants, little has been said about the schools program. million for Portland Homeless Family Solutions, Portland.

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GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2022

The Infectious Disease Research Institute was founded in 1993 with a broad mission to address diseases affecting low- and middle-income countries, and was known for its vaccine programs. It also was set up as a nonprofit that operated like a biotech company, taking discoveries through early-stage research to manufacturing and clinical trials.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Computational biologist Robert Bradley was named the scientific director of Fred Hutch’s Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center , a program that applies data science to cancer and disease research. Lisa Wallace joined as VP of program operations. Joe Braidwood. TraceMe Photo). Vancouver, B.C.-based

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

Breakthrough Energy Ventures is led by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and publicly launched in December 2016. Last summer, Amazon unveiled its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund, a venture capital program directed at sustainable technologies that could help it fulfill its promise to become net carbon neutral by 2040.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2021

They come from universities, public schools and nonprofits, and are working with kids from elementary school into college and supporting fellow teachers as well. Core contributor to the College of Engineering’s State Academic RedShirt (STARS) program, which serves low-income, first-generation and underserved students.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As Microsoft and Amazon have earmarked billions toward affordable housing in the region, startups and nonprofits are also getting involved. “Elements of the campaign show the faces and stories of real people who have changed their lives with the help of our services and programs. People can change.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

The program will start in November at the UW. (UW The news: Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs nine startup accelerators across the world, is coming to Seattle. It does not take equity as the program is funded by founding members such as Microsoft and the UW.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

The wireless industry veteran is certainly keeping busy these days as CEO and chairman of the Seattle Mariners, a position he took on in 2016 following decades of leadership roles at VoiceStream Wireless (the predecessor of the modern day T-Mobile), Clearwire Corp, McCaw Cellular, and Western Wireless. It’s really hard. ”

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

-based company described it as “a vehicle, when the time comes, to help explore potential other initiatives that don’t fit naturally or neatly within the [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s] program areas.”. The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2021

Seth Nesbitt , who has been CMO since 2016, has been appointed as the global head of purpose, values and culture. ZoomInfo uses machine learning to help customers drive sales and marketing programs and went public last year. . — Icertis hired longtime SAP executive Gretchen Eischen as its new chief marketing officer. based RocketReach.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

” Kaushik said that in 2006, when the Indian government announced an affirmative action program to help oppressed caste people, the topic was discussed in an email thread at Microsoft. “Caste discrimination exits right here in our midst.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

” Wang, who is in his early 20s, dropped out of MIT to found Scale AI in 2016. Ekin Yasin is the new director of the Communication Leadership graduate program at the University of Washington. He will continue to support the program as a co-founder. “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Prior to joining collaboration work management Smartsheet in 2016, Ceran held executive roles at Box and eBay. Techstars Seattle, which hosts a three month accelerator program, graduated its 11th cohort this year and is led by Managing Director Isaac Kato. based Auth0. Former SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia. Madrona Venture Group Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 9, 2021

The organization supports life science and technology through grants, commercialization, and licensing technologies from universities and other nonprofit research institutions. University of Washington, for example, has earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue through WRF.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. Microsoft is also offering Codex as a service in the form of GitHub Copilot, an AI-based pair programming tool that can generate code fragments from natural language prompts.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 20, 2022

One former seattlepi.com staffer, who recently left her role as a web producer for a job in nonprofit communications, expressed skepticism about Hearst’s long-term commitment, based on her experience. A representative sample of local news headlines published by seattlepi.com in December 2016, left, and December 2021, right.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dewing, who holds a law degree from the University of Washington, worked for a nonprofit legal aid program early in her career and was involved with immigrant advocacy and street youth while in law school. To fill that gap, she helped spin out Rubica in 2016 as its COO, taking over as CEO two years ago.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2023

A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. That’s the wrong approach, because that doesn’t actually build for the future,” said Hermida, who also co-founded The Conversation Canada, a nonprofit news startup. What it does is support a failing commercial legacy media model.”

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 17, 2023

For example, take Mayhem 's result on 1,644 open source programs. In 2022, Mayhem explored over 132 billion new code paths in those programs, automatically authored 2.24 million tests will crash, hang, or break program logic due to 29,691 new unique bugs. million missing tests for corner cases the developer missed, of which 1.32

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg predicted in 2016 that televisions and phones would be replaced by holographic glasses. In 2016, for instance, millions of people fell in love with the phone-based AR game Pokémon Go. AR has populated science fiction, specialized industries, and high-tech experiments for decades.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. Itucas continues to lead product and operations at the startup, which participated in the 2018 Techstars Seattle accelerator program. .” Vellore came up with the idea for Ally after an experience at his previous startup.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

The problem was big enough that it even personally impacted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who in 2016 saw his own profile swarmed by anti-vaccine comments after he posted a routine picture of his own young daughter getting vaccinated at a doctor’s visit.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon hasn’t publicly released data on the racial breakdown between its corporate and front-line workforces since 2016.). If Amazon was to ever enjoy wholesale success in diversity and inclusion programming, they need to have experienced D&I practitioners represented at every level,” Kelly-Rae told Recode.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

AirPods are too difficult to fix — that is clear,” said Jenn Engstrom, state director at CALPIRG, a California consumer rights nonprofit that has been pushing the state to implement Right to Repair legislation for years. In 2022, Apple launched its own Self Service Repair program. But yeah, we can only repair what is repairable.”

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

In December, 2016, the lights went out in Kyiv, Ukraine. So the reality is that there was a team of criminal hackers, and like all intrusions, this attack didn’t just start in December 2016; it began months before it was executed. Probably Probably who has an interest in setting back the Iranian nuclear program?

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

OpenAI, the AI developer that built the ChatGPT language model, recently announced the release of APIs, or application programming interfaces, for its ChatGPT and Whisper, a speech recognition model. Or it could make things a lot worse. OpenAI is also backed by some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Microsoft quickly took it offline.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Amazon hasn’t publicly released data on the racial breakdown between its corporate and front-line workforces since 2016.). If Amazon was to ever enjoy wholesale success in diversity and inclusion programming, they need to have experienced D&I practitioners represented at every level,” Kelly-Rae told Recode.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

And people are talking about hacking control system tackling PLCs and what we quickly realize is they don't they've never touched to be able to say they have no idea what these control systems are how they work their security researchers, you know that that maybe the firmware or maybe they found a program or something somewhere.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2023

The program serves tech-focused students in 44 high schools spread across multiple districts north of Seattle. Portia Kibble Smith, head of DEI programs and partnerships at Karat, accepts the Geeks Give Back Award at the 2023 GeekWire Awards. Impinj went public in 2016. See this post for more background on this category.

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