GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

Coding for Cancer Hanako Osuga, in the background, is the program coordinator leading the Coding for Cancer program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an effort designed to expose students to the possibilities of applying computational skills to cancer research. Denver and Dallas and has helped more then 6,200 people get housing.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

(Certifi AI Photo) In January, pornographic deepfake images of Taylor Swift were viewed by millions of people on X and other social media platforms before the sites took action. Research shows that women and girls are overwhelmingly the victims of this sort of exploitation. The response from the tech sector has been limited.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

. — Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues. He was also VP of marketing, sales and business development at online photography platform SmugMug.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

. — Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. Founded in 2012, DataKind connects organizations with pro bono data science and AI experts to tackle social issues. He was also VP of marketing, sales and business development at online photography platform SmugMug.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. SeaCiti, a nonprofit of the Washington Technology Industry Association that aims to help tech workers create local impact, hired Terrence Stevenson as director. Joseph L u, founder of Portland, Ore.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Research VP, Gartner. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS. Pat Fiorenza.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

SOCIAL IMPACT. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Research VP, Gartner. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS. Pat Fiorenza.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2022

Sophy Lee , an Austin, Texas-based tech executive, has assembled a volunteer team of 11 researchers, programmers and designers, alongside eight advisors, to quickly build the site and help money flow to more than 100 organizations inside and outside Ukraine. Logo via Pledge Ukraine). But he was frustrated that he wasn’t doing enough.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Mainstream media critic Project Veritas sues University of Washington and Stanford, alleging defamation by social media researchers. Amazon introduced a home robot called Astro, under development for the past several years, using artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies to operate autonomously in the home.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Bank of America recognized that leadership this past summer by selecting Li as one of hundreds of Student Leaders for 2021, a program that helps prepare young people to enter the workforce through hands-on skill- building and leadership development. And now GeekWire is choosing Li as the Junior Geek of the Month for September.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

That’s not just something that startup founders rushing to cash in on the latest fad believe; some very reputable economists are predicting a massive boom in productivity as AI use takes off , buoyed by empirical research showing tools like ChatGPT boost worker output. How much teeth the board has had in practice is debatable.)

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

The novel coronavirus has brought with it fears of infection, massive job losses, the challenges of teaching kids at home, social isolation, and the list goes on. ’” said Atkins, who is also a research professor at the University of Washington. Mental health tech startup Lyssn is launching its telehealth platform this week.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The CiviForm tool was developed by the City of Seattle’s Innovation and Performance team and Seattle Information Technology Department and first piloted in June 2021. A pro bono team of 14 full-time Google.org Fellows including product managers, engineers, user experience researchers and designers dedicated nine months to the project.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. At the same time, connecting with people working remotely in Spokane can be hit and miss, said Megan Hulsey , a Spokane-based vice president and business lender with Craft3 , a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

All mission crew supporting this launch are exercising strict social distancing and safety measures to mitigate COVID-19 risks to personnel, customers and surrounding communities.” The payload was developed by Space Lab in collaboration with the University of Colorado at Boulder. amounting to a total of 12 commercial payloads.

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

There is so much research about how difficult it is for women to raise funding for venture capital,” said Emily Cox Pahnke , an associate professor with the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. Pivotal projects. Ada Photo).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Those efforts are critical, according to the multiple executives, researchers, and up-and-coming tech professionals interviewed on the topic. The NAACP cites similar figures , saying that research has found that although “Black people comprise 13% of the US population, they represent only 7% of the computing workforce.”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

New York Public Radio acquiring the website Gothamist was one of nine similar deals in recent years, triggering researchers to document the trend by creating the Public Media Mergers Project. Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Kodukula previously held business development roles at Human Longevity, Life Technologies, and Prometheus Laboratories. Joe Braidwood. TraceMe Photo). Apprenti Photos).

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2020

Ingram is the CEO and founder of consulting firm Diverse City and tech startup Inclusology , which is developing a tech platform for diversity, equity and inclusion assessments inside companies. I don’t mean just giving it to nonprofits that are run by white leaders who have a white savior complex.

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CTOvision

MARCH 7, 2014

Formerly research director at the National Security Agency (NSA), Chang joined SMU in fall 2013 as the inaugural Bobby B. Darwin Deason’s gift will support important research and education across a broad spectrum of student involvement,” said Lyle School Dean Marc Christensen. “The Deason was born in Rogers, Ark.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Somewhere along the way, Dogra determined that she could do more with technology to impact the social causes that were important to her. ’ That summer was super transformational because the way that the program was executed was really deeply intertwining tech and artificial intelligence and machine learning with social impact.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

. “Andrew has decades of experience in environmental and climate science as well as economic and social policy in the U.S., The global research organization was one of the recipients this fall of a $100 million Bezos Earth Fund grant. Europe, Asia, and Africa,” Bezos said in sharing news of the hire via an Instagram post.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Tony Hunt, chief development officer of Operation Safe Escape, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of domestic violence escape their abusers, says deleting yourself from the internet could be exactly what the stalker wants. We can develop intentional boundaries on the internet, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

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Vox

APRIL 16, 2020

Experts have argued for years that the social network is rife with misleading information that taints public discourse and asked Facebook to take the retroactive approach. “We For Facebook’s critics, the move toward retroactively notifying users about misleading Covid-19 content, even if incremental, is a welcome development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 18, 2022

This quaint excess of modesty about your career accomplishments might seem like an endearing trait—a refreshing lack of vanity in a world awash in social media noise. based), this Microsoft-owned social network dominates the business landscape. “No I want them to do the research and find the numbers to back up their stories.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As outrage and protests spread across the nation and social media after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May, major tech companies issued statements of solidarity , startup founders spoke out about racism and investors announced funds dedicated to entrepreneurs of color. And the giving continues.

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Vox

JUNE 17, 2022

This week, the Markup, a nonprofit news outlet that covers technology’s harms, has been publishing the latest findings of its investigation into Meta’s Pixels, which are pieces of code developers can embed on websites to track their visitors. There are also cases where Meta collects data about people who don’t even have Meta accounts.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. These 10 cities are the fastest growing tech hubs by salary, according to Dice. increase from 2021, according to Dice.

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2020

In addition to the bar and the loo, Space Perspective plans to provide a solid wireless internet connection to ensure that passengers will be able to share their experiences on social media in real time. After that joint venture, they got married and went on to found Paragon Space Development Corp.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

So, as laid out in this helpful Lifehacker article , it’s a good idea not to just click on a social media link; instead, once you’ve picked out a group you want to donate to, go to that group’s website and check them out. By doing a bit of research, you can find out where the current need is greatest. Here are some places to start.

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

GPT4’s API is also available to developers who can build apps on top of it for a fee proportionate to how much you’re using the tool. Researchers worry we don’t know what data it’s being trained on. It had been trained on social media posts, which can often be hateful. GPT-4 still has serious flaws.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Smith most recently was SVP of behavioral analytics at PSB, a market research consultancy based in Washington, D.C. Ideoclick, a Seattle e-commerce startup, promoted Jonathan Ferrell to vice president of business development. GeekWire is a dot.LA

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MAY 29, 2020

He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. Roberts was previously CTO of cybersecurity company DomainTools, Rouxbe Online Cooking School and SixthEye, a social network for wine enthusiasts. He most recently led strategy and corporate development for Toronto startup Element AI.

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