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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. Maheshwary previously worked at Amazon as programs lead for underserved populations and special projects and was a Fulbright fellow with the U.S.

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Are You Agile Enough for Polyglot Programming?

CTOvision

he said, no way, I program in six languages: Object Pascal, C++, Java, Visual Basic, TCL, and JavaScript. What good is to be a polyglot when it comes to programming? Polyglot Programming. An interesting case study in Polyglot Programming is the Obama re-election campaign. Ok, I thought—he was truly a polyglot. I think so.

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GeekWire Gala recap: Seattle community dances, sings and parties at annual bash

GeekWire

Partygoers packed the dance floor and the “Geekaroke” karaoke lounge; a select few took the stage for a fierce holiday fashion contest; they sipped specialty cocktails and munched on tasty treats; they posed all night in the glittery photo booth; had their caricatures drawn; took home airbrushed tattoos; and more.

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Before generative AI there was… just AI

CIO Business Intelligence

AI isn’t just GenAI,” John Roese, Global CTO of Dell Technologies, said on a recent Tomorrow’s Tech Today webcast. As a result, employees must fashion compelling stories around the data to make it actionable. These AI tools may struggle with tasks which they were not programmed to accomplish.

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How Zillow Group is thinking about AI and the future of real estate

GeekWire

Zillow CTO David Beitel was one of the first executive leaders at the real estate giant. “We want to make it easy for people to find homes they love,” said longtime Zillow CTO David Beitel. “We want to make it easy for people to find homes they love,” said longtime Zillow CTO David Beitel.

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Inside the satellite factory: How LeoStella uses software to track spacecraft hardware

GeekWire

“What you see here is the physical layout,” Brian Rider, LeoStella’s chief technology officer, told us during a tour of the satellite venture’s headquarters in Tukwila, just south of Seattle. Army’s Tactical Geospatial Intelligence prototype program, or TACGEO.

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Strata Hadoop World 2014: Watch Live Streaming Here

CTOvision

Strata Program Chairs, Roger Magoulas, Doug Cutting, and Alistair Croll, welcome you to the first day of keynotes. In this talk John will argue that the ability to program a computer gives you special access to the deepest and most fundamental ideas in statistics. Style Stalking: The Stochastic Patterns that Drive Fashion Trends.

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