CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs. The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) hired Ross Girshick , a former research scientist at Meta. Founded in 2015, Kirkland, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2023

Microsoft is partnering with OpenAI and competing against tech giants including Amazon and Google in the race to capitalize on the growing wave of generative AI technologies in software and online services. The company declined to disclose the expected size of the grants or the amount of its investment in the programs.

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Venture Beast

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A new vulnerability in Linux software can be exploited for local privilege escalation and to gain root privileges, Qualys researchers said. Read More.

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GeekWire

JULY 5, 2023

New LiDAR technology invented by University of Washington researchers integrates onto a computer chip and uses sound waves running over its surface to steer a laser beam, much like a searchlight, so self-driving cars can see objects such as pedestrians and other vehicles that are far in the distance.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

By Bob Gourley DARPA funds research in many areas and their wide and deep connections in academia, industry and with many private citizens means much of this is already shared. But in a continuing effort to find better ways to share what can be shared they have just built an online catalog for sharable code and peer-reviewed research.

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TechSpot

APRIL 19, 2024

The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) first started testing a Lockheed Martin X-62A VISTA (Variable In-flight Simulation Test Aircraft) fitted with AI software back in December 2022, part of the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program. Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. It is used to execute and improve machine learning tasks such as NLP, computer vision, and deep learning.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Others demoed their research on the implications of facial recognition technology and security of government websites. The annual Research Showcase and Open House at the UW’s Paul G. GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) “Getting to a candidate research hypothesis is so much faster now,” Patel said.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 17, 2022

Researchers at MIT have developed a new approach that enables them to program robots in simulation and then deploy them to the real world. Read More.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The two recently secured $18 million and $22 million in funding and grants, respectively, due in large part to data collected by Nature and Health researchers. . The group’s origin dates back to a small group of scientists and researchers from the UW who met at breweries with members of the outdoor and conservation industries.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 12, 2020

And this match came up with $300,000 to get things started in a brand new pilot program. Georgia State University cybersecurity mentorship program. How does the cybersecurity mentorship program work? And the program includes a matchmaking system. Georgia State University is launching this venture.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 10, 2022

Today, 1Password announced that it has increased its top bug bounty reward to $1 million, after 800 attempts by researchers failed to beach the platform for a bounty of $100,000. This means the organization now has the largest financial incentive program for ethical hac… Read More.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Architects and interior designers have switched from pencils and papers to digital software and iPads, causing a significant change in design practices over the last few decades. Digital tools, as well as VR and AR technologies, are changing the way we learn, work, and live. And a whole new direction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, organizations are contemplating Generative AI’s impact on software development. While the potential of Generative AI in software development is exciting, there are still risks and guardrails that need to be considered. Educational programs and training courses can help teach this skill set.

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The Verge

JULY 4, 2021

A security researcher has found that certain Wi-Fi networks with the percent symbol (%) in their names can disable Wi-Fi on iPhones and other iOS devices. 9to5 Mac offered a possible explanation for the weird bug: the ‘%[character]’ syntax is commonly used in programming languages to format variables into an output string.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. The program boasts a 97% graduation rate, 94% job placement rate with a 160% salary increase.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

ManipulaTHOR adds a highly articulated robotic arm to the institute’s AI2-THOR artificial intelligence platform — which should provide lots more capability for testing the software for robots even before they’re built. Researchers can program the virtual arm in AI2-THOR 3.0

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The efficiencies in this approach enable businesses to produce software at an ever-increasing pace. As the pace of software development increases, security teams are struggling to keep up. How to build a developer-first AppSec program. This unanticipated work slows the build down and creates friction between the groups.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 24, 2020

million active software developers—a gain of some 5 million since mid-2017. Python was found to have 9 million active developers and came in second-place, but the researchers also highlighted. The information comes from analyst firm SlashData's latest developer survey.

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

Researchers have developed what they say is a breakthrough robotic lab assistant, able to move around a laboratory and conduct scientific experiments just like a human. Working around the clock to tackle time-consuming research. . | Image: University of Liverpool. GIF: The Verge via Nature.

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CTOvision

APRIL 14, 2020

Researchers have created software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including “survival of the fittest,” to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input. The program replicated decades of AI research in a […].

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The homepage for the City of Seattle’s CiviForm website, a tool that makes it faster and easier for residents to apply to city-related benefit and discount programs. The tool works by easing some of the time, computer literacy and language barriers that can create roadblocks for residents seeking to access benefit programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. The real problems are usually centered around what the software is supposed to do.

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CTOvision

MAY 29, 2015

The Commonwealth of Virginia announced research commercialization awards today, including many friends and readers of CTOvision, so we wanted to share this announcement. Governor McAuliffe Announces Research Commercialization Awards. Investments target research and commercialization activities to spur innovation ~ .

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Top universities are able to accept a fraction of applicants to their in-demand computer science programs. Wang is the founder of Mentors in Tech (MinT) , a Seattle-area program launched three years ago to help college students connect with tech mentoring, internships and recruiting opportunities. It changed my life.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2022

Eastlake High School senior Christine Ye focused on gravitational waves in her research. (UW has won the top award in the nation’s oldest and most prestigious competitions for science students, thanks to her research into the mysteries of black holes and neutron stars. UW Bothell Photo). “It feels amazing.”

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TechSpot

APRIL 17, 2023

McAfee's mobile research team discovered a third-party software library it named Goldoson, which collects sensitive information and performs ad fraud. However, the developers who used Goldoson didn't realize that they were adding a malicious malware component to their programs. Read Entire Article

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Network World

JULY 7, 2016

Researchers are adding bugs to experimental software code in order to ultimately wind up with programs that have fewer vulnerabilities. The idea is to insert a known quantity of vulnerabilities into code, then see how many of them are discovered by bug-finding tools.

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TechSpot

APRIL 22, 2022

At this year's Pwn2Own, security researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade decided to tackle an industrial control software called "OPC UA." This open-source communications protocol is used worldwide to connect industrial systems like power grids and other critical infrastructure.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter to Congress today. The company will also no longer develop or research the technology, IBM tells The Verge. Facial recognition software has come under scrutiny for issues with racial bias and privacy concerns.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Proctorio, and other programs like it, is designed to keep an eye on students while they’re taking tests.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. ” NSIN has university program directors at nine other universities. .

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle-based sales software startup Highspot has named Graham Younger as its new president of field operations. Younger was most recently president and chief commercial officer for Cast & Crew, a provider of production software, payroll and services for the entertainment industry. ” Graham Younger.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

By Bob Gourley 2014 Guidance Software Federal Summit: Cybersecurity | E-Discovery | Enterprise Forensics. The Guidance Software Federal Summit is a thought leadership forum designed exclusively for federal managers and leaders to learn how Government and industry leaders are achieving endpoint visibility across their entire IT ecosystems.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The software updates for your IT management tools arrive automatically and contain legitimate changes—but hidden inside the update is malware that gives hackers secret access to your network. Government and prominent security researchers, this type of attack is playing out right now on a global scale. And according to the U.S.

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