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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. Some of them are as under: In 2001, UdK 01-Award in Berlin, Germany for pioneering the Graphical User Interface. He formulated the idea of laptops, tablets, and e-books. In 2003, ACM Turing Award.

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Biometric tech is taking off in airports

The Hustle

Most of the updates are due to a 2001 congressional mandate requiring airports to add systems that allow for biometric identification of all travelers coming in or out of the US. Beijing Capital International Airport lets travelers use their faces at every step of their trip, including checking out at duty-free stores.

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

CIO

In his 2001 best-seller, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t , author Jim Collins reminds us that “Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” This means creating a culture where people want to work and establishing systems for work that people want to do.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Previously, he spent six years at Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he led technical diligence for the infrastructure IT and sustainability practices and worked with the portfolio to recruit technical talent, run product-market fit experiments and develop fundraising strategies.” John received his Ph.D.

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Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Complete Review [2020]

Codegiant

The Complete Review [2020] From the desk of a brilliant weirdo #1 : If you are using Scrum it’s safe to say that you are also using Agile. during this stage, the work that has been performed in the previous steps is reviewed and the market’s reactions are observed. Agile vs Scrum: Differences & Similarities?—?The Maintenance ?—?during

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Improving Security by influencing Human Behavior

Xebia

We all know that the hardening of a system or implementing 2FA does not magically improves the security of an organisation. Behavior in the context of an organisation is influenced by the Process (Structure and Systems) and the Culture (Hoogervorst 2018) [11]. Morphogenic social system model by Hoogervorst [link].

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Why Intuitive Troubleshooting Has Stopped Working for You

Honeycomb

It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. There are valid reasons why it’s harder: The architecture of our systems has gotten a lot more sophisticated and complex over the past 20 years. Broadly, Cynefin describes four categories of system: obvious, complicated, complex, and chaotic.