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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

The half-day program runs for four weeks in the summer and is virtual so that it can reach a larger geographical area, including rural areas of Washington state. To accomplish this, the organization guarantees rent payment and promises $5,000 in damage insurance for two years.

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CIOs Struggle To Find The Machine Learning Employees That They Need

The Accidental Successful CIO

People with the CIO job at banks, insurers and other financial companies say efforts to expand their use of artificial intelligence are being hampered by a scarcity of both data and employees with the skills that are needed. Where Have All The Needed Employees Gone? AI is a competitive advantage for these firms. Subscribe now: Click Here!

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. N Apps where software licensing prohibits cloud e.g. some software licensing may be tied to specific CPUs; some licensing may not permit virtualization (as is found in most clouds); certain licensing may not permit use outside of specific physical domains.

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

However social network analysis has been applied by intelligence agencies and law enforcement for decades. Interestingly, two Australian software companies are world leaders in applying social network analysis in these domains. Insurance and retail fraud are other important applications. This is a field set for massive growth.

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10 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

CIO Business Intelligence

One potential algorithm, for instance, might be a digital drinking license that would guarantee that a beer buyer was over 21 years old without revealing their birth month, day, or even year. Chance of succeeding: The basic algorithms work well; the challenge is social resistance.

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Peer-to-peer banking - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

They get a very hefty spread for lending to individuals, however they do some things to create that value, including insurance (by pooling loans), risk assessment (making independent and accurate assessment of creditworthiness), and convenience (at their best!). This is not possible by a financial institution.

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Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #4 Transparency - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

The controversy on the payments its Marsh insurance brokerage arm was making to insurers, unbeknownst to its clients, resulted in a settlement of $850 million to policyholders. While this tale relates to another MegaTrend—that of Governance—the result is greater transparency. Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0

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