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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

GeekWire

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. based Lisi Global replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests such as weeds and worms with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. Soma” Somasegar. Calling all Uncommon Thinkers!

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. Mackenroth: Everything was previously hardware-centric. Now, software eats hardware for lunch. Look at Tesla. That’s not what it’s about.

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TechNet Augusta 2016 “Cyber in the Combined Arms Fight”

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Chemical Biological. Exponential growth in software (while Army is still a hardware based organization). Source selection (contracting) methodologies: Government needs to figure out what they are willing to pay more for; it’s not just about lowest price technically acceptable. Research and development. Public health sciences.

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