GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

(Sage Biotneworks Graphic) There are lots of tasks in biomedicine that are more accurately and efficiently accomplished by a computer than a person — take the detection of breast cancer from a mammogram, as just one example. Or there’s a bunch of models tackling the same problem and it’s unclear which one works best.

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GeekWire

MARCH 25, 2024

Coding for Cancer also aims to serve teens from backgrounds historically excluded from the biomedical sciences, and works with families to provide technological resources — computers or WiFi, for example — that they might not have ready access to. Since launching in Seattle five years ago, Housing Connector has expanded to Portland, Ore.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Synchrony, for example, partners with Girls Who Code , an international nonprofit organization that helps support and increase the number of women in computer science. At Synchrony, for example, we’ve included tuition reimbursement up to $20,000 annually and up to $9,000 per year for technology certifications.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The Xbox Accessibility Guidelines include thorough explanations of inclusive design considerations for developers, and they are now updated to include clearer language, additional context, and implementation examples. A program like this could potentially lead to more games with a similarly wide variety of accessibility options.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Among various examples, the lawsuit alleges that Microsoft’s “Browse with Bing” feature reproduces content from the Times’s product recommendation site Wirecutter “through substantial verbatim copying” and “substantial direct copying.” OpenAI previously reached a deal to license stories from the archive of The Associated Press.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Agency for International Development and includes researchers at the University of Washington and the Seattle-based nonprofit PATH. For example, Kawula’s research group works with partners in northern Kenya to study the evolution of MERS coronaviruses in camels. Louis and the nonprofit FHI 360.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

The nonprofit that administers the ACT admissions test also announced disruptions for students taking that test. It remains to be seen how many other schools may follow MIT’s example and reinstate their own standardized test requirements. It asked colleges and universities to be flexible in their admissions processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For example, the Latitude 9440 features recycled, renewable, and low-emissions materials including 75% recycled content in the low-emissions aluminum chassis, 90% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastics in the battery housing, plus 50% recycled copper in the AC adapter cable. Brought more sustainable innovation to our business notebooks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

These five companies provide strong examples of successfully implemented DEI strategies that have helped diversify the talent pipeline, close skills gaps, and create opportunity for underserved populations. And it is the Nashville, Tenn.-based based company’s wide-ranging DEI efforts that truly stand out.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

For example, a 2016 ProPublica investigation found that Facebook advertisers could choose to exclude people of a certain race from seeing ads. Half will be invested in black-owned small businesses, black creators, and nonprofits working with black communities, Sandberg said in her blog post.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 14, 2021

Companies giving away a percentage of their profits to charity is the result of two trends converging: nonprofits becoming more commercial, and fully commercial businesses seeking to have a social impact. It also gave us the benefit of being able to have equity in the business,” says Griffiths, something a nonprofit is unable to offer. “We

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. Bill and Melinda set an amazing example for us all.” We are privileged to be in tech in Seattle.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2023

(TeachAI Image) Seattle-based computer science education nonprofit Code.org is helping to launch TeachAI , a new effort aimed at guiding governments and educators on teaching with and about artificial intelligence. The latest developments in AI are one example of that.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Organizations and nonprofits must submit letters of interest by April 12, and the foundation expects to fund three to five recipients. You said the foundation experiments and iterates, and I wonder if you can give an example of an effort that didn’t work?

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit that owns a for-profit arm with “capped” profits : First-round investors would stop earning after their shares multiply in value a hundredfold , with profits beyond that going into OpenAI’s nonprofit. (How much teeth the board has had in practice is debatable.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

They may, for example, say they need someone skilled in SAP software rather than recognizing that they need someone with ERP-related skills who is skilled at engaging with vendors, too. Year Up is a nonprofit organization offering skills-based training to young adults ; YUPRO Placement helps place Year Up participants in jobs.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Girls Who Code, the nonprofit organization that aims to get more women and girls interested in the field of computer science, has debuted what it calls the “first ever” codable music video. The Doja Cat codable music video. Photo by Girls Who Code. Screenshot: Emma Roth / The Verge. Typing in a color changes the look of Doja Cat’s nails.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Short of that, she’s working on turning a different kind of superhuman power into reality: using AI and machine learning to tackle climate change through her global nonprofit, Climate Change AI (CCAI).

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2021

COVID-19 hit hard: Ferguson said many of the organizers seeking payment were for small, nonprofit or community-based events, like those at community centers, schools or children’s theaters. Examples of those impacted: . 23 of this year.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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SecureWorld News

MAY 10, 2022

While this is an extreme example of the devastating consequences a ransomware attack can have, it is yet another reminder to make certain that your organization is protected from cyberthreats and has an incident response plan in place. The loss of history, careers, and a community of students and alumni is immense.".

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2023

Twitter Photo via @hadip ) When the Seattle-based nonprofit Code.org launched in 2013 with a mission to spread computer science knowledge, co-founders Hadi and Ali Partovi enlisted some of the most successful coders on the planet to champion their cause. . The latest developments in AI are one example of that.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A nonprofit called Earth Species Project , or ESP, is on a trajectory to talk with animals — but with a much higher purpose than my intended goals with Roxy. The nonprofit is developing tools that are species-agnostic and can be fine-tuned for specific research. ” – Gabriel Miller, technology director for the Paul G.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The New Shepard capsule also carried 38,000 postcards that have been submitted — on paper and online — by students through a program organized by the Club for the Future , Blue Origin’s educational nonprofit group. For example, an elevator was recently added to New Shepard’s launch tower, supplementing seven flights of stairs.

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GeekWire

JUNE 22, 2020

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space travel and computerized avatars, but its latest contest hits closer to home: XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling is offering $5 million in prizes for innovations that could revolutionize job training for under-resourced communities.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2022

“I think what we’ve built in a fairly short amount of time is an example of how you can use technology to kind of foster some coordination during chaos,” Lee said. They have a short term goal of attracting 100,000 people to the site, donating in an effective way. ”

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GeekWire

JULY 16, 2021

As examples, he named Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and Rett syndrome. million in Series A financing in 2019 with participation from CureDuchenne Ventures , the investment arm of CureDuchenne, a nonprofit dedicated to finding cures for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The financing builds on $35.5

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2021

megawatts (MW) of solar power this year alone, a more than 10-fold increase over a decade ago, according to an industry nonprofit. Volunteer homeowners allow the nonprofit to install a home on their property. Residents in the state installed an estimated 38.6 The total residential solar statewide is about 213 MW.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The same question has also been lurking behind the OpenAI leadership struggle — in which CEO Sam Altman won out over the nonprofit board members who fired him a week earlier. If you had to divide the AI community into go-fast and go-slow camps, those board members would be on the go-slow side, while Altman would favor going fast.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

A new online data dashboard tool from Seattle-based nonprofit PATH has provided a good place to start for more than 2,000 public health officials, most of them from outside the U.S. We’ve been pretty positively surprised with the amount of user interaction we’ve hard,” said Neha Agarwal, a senior commercialization officer with PATH.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

Industry clouds picking up steam This is just one example of a large enterprise driving the expansion of industry clouds. VW, Tesla, and Salesforce, for example, are among the pack of vendors developing clouds specific to the automotive industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 21, 2022

trillion in assets under management serving the financial needs of people at more than 15,000 institutions across academia, government, medicine, cultural, and other nonprofit organizations. On one side, you think about the different generations to serve and experiences to curate, whether they’re higher end, medical, research or nonprofit.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2024

He ultimately decided to chart his own path in the field — initially founding a nonprofit called Equitable College Counseling before founding EdXeno. After earning a Master of Education degree in counseling from Vanderbilt University, he worked as a high school counselor for 11 years in schools in Nashville and Chicago.

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