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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

GeekWire

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies. 31 was down 5% to $2.23

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Allen Institute for AI takes over Vulcan’s portfolio of environmental big-data projects

GeekWire

the diversified holding company that Allen created, to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. ” AI2’s CEO, Oren Etzioni, said the new researchers will represent a substantial addition to the 120 employees currently involved in nonprofit research activities at the institute. Maybe,” he said.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. Hunome is an online application and tool for thought networking. Twitter: @RitaJKing.

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