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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO Business Intelligence

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. I send data back to the cloud where I can afford a 5-10 millisecond delay of processing. “

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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What’s the plan if customers are presented with false data, or if critical decisions are based on inaccurate AI responses? Bias can be inadvertently perpetuated when AI is trained on historical data, he notes. Stakeholders need to comprehend how AI makes decisions and handles data.

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Haystax Technology (@HaystaxTech) Names Advisory Board Members (including @BobGourley and @BobFlores)

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Bettenhausen has overall responsibility for security, public safety and preparedness for the domestic and global operations and facilities of AEG, a leading sports and entertainment presenter. Bob Gourley, Founder and CTO, Crucial Point LLC. Analysis CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC' About Haystax. Haystax Technology, Inc.

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What it takes to succeed as a CIO today

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Shawn Banerji, managing partner for the Data, Digital, and Technology Leaders Practice, Caldwell. It’s kind of like the Dickens classic, A Tale of Two Cities : “It was the best of times. And the temperament and the patience on the part of many stakeholders has contracted. In the middle, you’ve got data.

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Tech Moves: Bioengineer joins AI2 incubator; Icosavax adds execs, expands board; and more

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He has been a professor of neurological surgery at UW for 14 years and the director of UW Medicine’s Sports Institute since 2017. Proprio’s high tech surgical tools utilize computer vision, AI and virtual reality to produce a real-time image for surgeons. Kahan was chief data analytics officer and vice president.

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