article thumbnail

Facebook CTO says hiring matters for mitigating AI bias, but the company lacks AI research diversity stats

Venture Beast

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer emphasized the importance of diversity and hiring to address algorithmic bias, despite little evident diversity at Facebook. Read More.

article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

GeekWire

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

GeekWire

Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. The company hired Jared Nieuwenhuis as marketing director for North America.

article thumbnail

SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

SAP 105
article thumbnail

Should your next big hire be a chief A.I. officer?

ComputerWorld IT Management

As companies increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to communicate with customers, make sense of big data and find answers to vexing questions, some say it's time to think about hiring a chief A.I. in the workplace, see Computerworld’s Artificial intelligence in the enterprise: It’s on. ].

article thumbnail

Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet joins insurance tech startup; Cyemptive Technologies adds exec

GeekWire

Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. She then led product and engineering at Amazon’s Alexa team.

article thumbnail

Seekr finds the AI computing power it needs in Intel’s cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. Seekr’s main business is building and training AIs that are transparent to enterprise and other users. What are you getting for your spend in terms of enterprise-class support?” There’s no doubt in my case.”

Cloud 119