Sun.Feb 05, 2017

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AI Makers Will Squelch Free Speech

Forrester IT

Artificial intelligence (AI) is real, albiet maturing slowly. You experience it when you talk to Alexa , when you see a creepily-targeted online ad , and when Netxflix turns you on to Stranger Things. Oh yea, and that self-driving car over there is AI super-powered! AI is indeed cool, but many are scared about how it ultimatley may impact society. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and even the Woz warned that " artificial intelligence can potentially be more dangerous than nuclear war.

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CW500 video: Chris Chandler discusses key trends affecting IT leaders

Computer Weekly

In this CW500 video, Chris Chandler, Chris Chandler, head of executive search at La Fosse Associates explores what's in store for IT chiefs in 2017

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Tech Standards for Transmission Media

IT Toolbox

Many different media are used to provide LAN services. The most common today are twisted pair copper cables for baseband and fiber optic cable for broadband.

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Middle East-based Emirates NBD launches mobile app-based bank

Computer Weekly

UAE bank’s new account is based on a smartphone app that is designed to learn and adopt to customer preferences

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Eight steps to true mainframe agility

IT Toolbox

Compuware published an interesting article in this year?s Arcati Mainframe Yearbook suggesting that enterprises must quickly and decisively transform their mainframe practices. The slow, inflexible processes and methods of the past have become intolerable impediments to success in today?s innovation-centric digital markets.

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Hacker stackoverflowin pwning printers, forcing rogue botnet warning print jobs

Network World

If your printer printed a “YOUR PRINTER HAS BEEN PWND’D” message from “stackoverflowin,” then it’s just one of more than 150,000 printers that have been pwned. Although the message likely referenced your printer being part of a botnet or “flaming botnet,” the hacker responsible says it’s not and that he is trying to raise awareness about the pitiful state of printer security.

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500+ Conferences for Technology, Digital, and Data Leaders

Social, Agile and Transformation

I've been slowly growing the number of events in my dashboard. I started with about 200 and now the list has grown to over 500 conferences for technologists. Insights on Conferences for CIO, CTO, and CDO Top technology topics are Big Data (42 conferences) IoT (19) and Artificial Intelligence (14) 50%+ of the conferences are directly target CIO and CISO. 30%+ of the conferences are in the top.

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CW500 video: Spencer Izard discusses key trends affecting IT leaders

Computer Weekly

In this CW500 video, Spencer Izard, chief analyst in the enterprise advisory team at Ovum, explores what's in store for IT chiefs in 2017

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Spousetivities at DockerCon 2017

Scott Lowe

DockerCon 2017 is coming up in mid-April in Austin, TX, and Spousetivities will once again be offering activities for folks traveling to Austin with conference attendees. This is Spousetivities’ second time at DockerCon, and Crystal has a great lineup of activities planned. Here’s a quick preview of the activities organized for DockerCon: Trip to Magnolia Market (from HGTV’s “Fixer Upper”).

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The path to the virtual cloud Enterprise is paved by the Digital evolution

IT Toolbox

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Who Should be Put in the Right Position for Accelerating Innovation

Future of CIO

There is no doubt innovation is becoming more important whereas technology becomes more advanced. We all know innovation is important because it is the lifeblood of any business. But compare the upcoming digital era to the previous industrial era, innovation is becoming more intense with broader content or enriched context; there are both radical innovation and incremental innovation; hard innovation and soft innovation; The speed of change is expedited, so does the speed of innovation.

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