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Amazon and Microsoft vets raise $10M for computer vision startup used in warehouses

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Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. ”

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Data science drives big decisions at Kohl’s

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Like many retailers, Kohl’s also uses publicly available machine learning models on the Google platform and has used Google’s Vertex AI platform. billion American department store chain. The Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. For example, retail sites typically have times when very few people shop.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. com CEO Jay Westerdal is a senior venture partner.

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Tech Moves: Qualtrics exec moves to Google; NHL Seattle expands team; former Amazon exec named Bluecrew CEO; and more

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Wood is co-founder and currently a partner at consultancy AirNote. He was a longtime member and former chairman of the Washington Technology Industry Association’s board of directors. Qumulo also recently hired Barry Russell as SVP and general manger of cloud and Michael Cornwell as chief technology officer.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.