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Radian Aerospace comes out of stealth and raises $27.5M for orbital space plane development

GeekWire

million to grab the grail: In the late 1990s, NASA spent nearly a billion dollars on Lockheed Martin’s X-33 single-stage-to-orbit concept before the project was canceled in 2001. Air Force’s Manned Spaceflight Engineer program in the 1980s — and went on to become a program manager at Boeing, focusing on reusable space systems.

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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP): An online community with a virtuous goal

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It was founded by Mark Curphey and Dennis Groves in Sep 2001 when an announcement was sent to a mailing list of the web application security community (WebAppSec). This wiki has references for organizations just starting out a web application security program and also best practices for those with very mature programs.

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Girl Develop It. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.”

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Building success in the future of work: T-shaped, Pi-shaped, and Comb-shaped skills

Trends in the Living Networks

In her presentation Prof Mather discussed the skills required for data analytics, in the context of a new Master of Business Analytics program the University is launching this year. It can be dangerous to have just one area of deep expertise, as the value of any single domain of expertise can erode rapidly with new developments.

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Virgin Galactic and NASA make a deal on services for private orbital astronauts

GeekWire

Virgin Galactic says it has signed an agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas to develop a new readiness program for private-sector astronauts heading to the International Space Station. NASA photo). “I’m all for that,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said last month.

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Seagen founder Clay Siegall is back in biotech as CEO of Purdue University spinout

GeekWire

More than two decades ago, Siegall helped start Seagen, then called Seattle Genetics, and took it public in 2001. The company develops two-component agents that target cells and deliver a linked molecular payload. One program delivers a payload to immune cells by recognizing a molecule called the folate receptor.

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The Sony Hack in Context

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Hence, if the higher government and industry estimates of the economic costs of data theft are correct, the US is suffering the economic equivalent of a 9/11/2001 terrorist attack every year. Even the lower estimates correspond to the total losses suffered by the City of New York in 2001. Regrettably this is already happening.