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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.) Sun replaces Feiyu Xu as SAP’s global head of AI.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

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Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration. “But

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FutureIT Toronto – Where IDC Analysts and Canadian Tech Leaders Meet

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With George’s background in high performance sports and leadership paired with IDC’s Framework of Trust these two discuss striking the balance between strategic leadership, department and team management and the role as a thought leader-stakeholder for security issues accross the entire enterprise. Al Koura, CISO at Ruby Life Ltd.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

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Studies show that many VR and “metaverse” platforms record info that could be used to identify a person, even if their data is de-identified on-device. Highlighting the pressure platform developers face, AltspaceVR, one of the first social applications of VR, was recently sunsetted by parent company Microsoft.

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Healthcare Blogs: 7 Tips for Finding Article Topics That Resonate

Perficient

It’s basically a spectator sport. Keep an eye out for myths, fake news, factoids spreading on social media and other sources of misinformation that are wrong about something your organization’s experts can speak against. And there’s no reason your organization can’t capitalize on that for your healthcare blog. And that’s fine!

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TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans

TechCrunch

In a recent episode of TechCrunch Live, Sequoia partner Stephanie Zhan reviewed the earliest pitch deck for social gaming company Rec Room with Nick Fajt, its founder and CEO. I think Nick did a wonderful job of setting the tone for the type of social platform Rec Room wanted to be from the start,” said Zhan.

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A reading list from the Capgemini Research Institute – Issue 2

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Blockchain for Social Impact , Stanford Business School. A really interesting study of “Blockchain for good” with many projects that are leveraging blockchain to drive social impacts. This study from the MIT Tech Review reveals top AI use cases and highlights the challenges of scaling. Have you heard of BanQu?