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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

GeekWire

As a development manager, he worked on early versions of technologies including the Windows 1.0 software development kit and the C++ programming language. ” Vellon liked to read management books and would use them as lighthearted inspiration and motivation for his team.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

GeekWire

” That warning, so obvious today, was a blunt wake-up call 20 years ago for many of the software developers reading the book Writing Secure Code, by Microsoft security engineering leaders Michael Howard and David LeBlanc. And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision.

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

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Hiltunen is known for co-inventing the TrendWiki tool for crowdsourcing organizational futures, as well as creating the “ Futures Window ” and “ Strategic Serendipity ” tools. She is the Secretary General of the Office of Finland Prime Minister’s Government Foresight Group 2020-2023. Twitter: @heathermcgowan. Roxanne Meadows.

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