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AI Gets Real at the GeekWire Summit: Speakers revealed for Oct. 19 at former Cinerama theater

GeekWire

Clockwise from upper left: Sci-fi author Ted Chiang, Redfin CTO Bridget Frey, Screenwriter Eric Heisserer, GitHub CPO Inbal Shani, Read AI CEO David Shim, Factory managing partner Diego Oppenheimer, Pollen Systems CEO Keith McCall, author and entrepreneur Juliette Powell, Overland AI CEO Byron Boots, and Microsoft President Charlotte Yarkoni.

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Writers respond to techno-optimism about AI with a manifesto of their own: ‘It’s mostly nonsense’

GeekWire

Chiang, a longtime Seattle-area resident, is best-known as the author of “Story of Your Life,” the novella that was adapted for the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie “Arrival.” Joining Chiang on the SIFF Cinema stage was Eric Heisserer , the screenwriter who turned Chiang’s story into the script for “Arrival.”

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GeekWire Summit FAQ: What to know if you’re attending our annual conference this week

GeekWire

Recorded sessions: GeekWire Summit sessions will be recorded, with the exception of the final fireside chat with sci-fi author Ted Chiang and screenwriter Eric Heisserer. Can’t say until Thursday, but sci-fi fans will certainly be intrigued. Attire: Business casual. The sessions will not be livestreamed.

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Scientists design proteins that could keep coronavirus from spreading COVID-19

GeekWire

Cao is the lead author of a study about the protein-building experiment , published today by the journal Science. “We are working to get improved versions … deployed to fight the current pandemic,” senior study author David Baker, the director of the Institute for Protein Design, told GeekWire in an email.

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GeekWire Summit, Oct. 19: Check out the agenda and join us to explore the new era of AI

GeekWire

Register here or below to attend. Thank you to our GeekWire Summit sponsors.

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Big Data won’t solve your problem (or maybe it will)

Eric D. Brown

Apologies to the author but I was confused reading it and don’t really think the author even addressed his own question. Link Bait: 1, Eric: 0. This first part of this vent: I’m not real sure what the reason for that article was…it kind of bounced around a bit. Of course, he DID get me to link to it.

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9 traits of great IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

They deliver Although it’s true that leading , which is about visioning, is not synonymous with managing , aka accomplishing tasks , true IT leaders are indeed “great at the business of IT,” says Eric Bloom, executive director of the IT Management and Leadership Institute and part of the Society for Information Management (SIM) Leadership Institute.

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