CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

Why not pick up a book that will inspire you to be a more effective leader, help you spot challenges and pitfalls in your IT strategies and processes, or prepare for the future of information technology? And this group of CIOs, CTOs, and technical CEOs have strong favorites — books they turn to again and again for inspiration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The logo for 8080 Books, a new publishing imprint from Microsoft, announced Monday. Microsoft Image) Microsoft will attempt to find the sweet spot between the speed of social media and the lasting impact of books with its own publishing imprint, 8080 Books — aiming to bring new titles to market much faster than traditional publishing allows.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Opinionated programmers, demanding stakeholders, miserly accountants, and meeting-happy managers mix in a political layer that makes a miracle of any software development work happening at all.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Even more significantly, cash payments allow merchants and professionals like doctors, lawyers, and accountants to keep such transactions off the books and avoid tax. These reasons have allowed India to develop a significant pile of unaccounted cash in the shadow economy -- by some estimates, anywhere between $200 billion and $1 trillion.

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Trends in the Living Networks

MARCH 13, 2022

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 16, 2023

In Chapter 5 of my book, Digital Trailblazer, I share several of my stories of helping organizations define their agile ways of working. If you’re married to a framework, it’s hard for leaders to develop agile cultures and mindsets.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Harvard University, in collaboration with Google, will release a dataset of approximately one million public-domain books for use in training AI models, according to WIRED. The dataset comprises works that are no longer under copyright protection, drawn from Googles extensive book-scanning efforts.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Slightly late to share: my fifth book, Thriving on Overload: The 5 Powers for Success in a World of Exponential Information , is now out. The way the book came about is that I worked long and hard on a proposal for a book about how to think about and create the future. I have been very slack at keeping my blog updated!

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TechSpot

JANUARY 13, 2024

A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the unlawful use of copyrighted material in developing its Llama 1 and Llama 2 large language models. In response, Facebook addressed writer and comedian Sarah Silverman, author Richard Kadrey, and other rights holders spearheading the legal action, acknowledging that its.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 25, 2024

It’s been just over two years since I finalized the Digital Trailblazer manuscript, my book of stories and 50 You will always be transforming, and your organization must establish transformational practices as essential core competencies.”

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 7, 2021

However, back in the early days they had struggles with their IT systems as they tried to expand their company beyond just being an online seller of books. When Amazon looked at developing new features such as Amazon Prime would have required a multiyear project. Back in 2000, the Amazon IT team changed what they were working on.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

” That’s the fundamental question at the heart of the book, and of Musk’s career and life. Structuring the book TB: One of the things that struck me was the way that you structured this book. It was actually very easy for me to follow as a reader, both in the printed book and in the audio book.

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Kitaboo

MAY 27, 2024

The inclusion of technological developments, pedagogical approaches, and interactive elements enhances the learning experience and boosts engagement. These innovations aim to meet the diverse needs of modern learners and educators by enriching the learning modules.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The potential for that scenario is the focus of a newly published book titled “The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood.” The author, Duke University law professor James Boyle , says the book has been more than a decade in the making — which suggests more than the usual prescience about the tech world’s current fascination with AI.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A couple of weeks ago, I celebrated my 1,000th blog post, an achievement I am just as proud of as publishing my two books, Driving Digital and Digital Trailblazer. In the post, I shared three time-tested lessons for digital trailblazers and thanked many contributors to my weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers. Looking back at 18+

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Vox

JANUARY 18, 2024

Advocates of technological innovation would say that AI technology is full of promise and we’d better not stifle that while it’s in the early days of development. That in mind, there’s one more copyright lawsuit worth looking at: the Google Books case. It took about a decade, but Google eventually won, and Google Books is now legal.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Microsoft wasn’t there at all, Sony was reportedly only present via an off-the-books appearance by PlayStation Indies chief Shuhei Yoshida, and if Valve was at PAX, they weren’t obvious about it. If the future of the Penny Arcade Expo is as an international flashpoint for independent games development, then it’s all been worth it.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Rec Room screenshot) Video game companies are dipping their toes into the rapidly-evolving world of generative AI with behind-the-scenes development. Much of that debate, however, has been crowded out of the limelight by other concerns, such as a year-long wave of layoffs that has cost roughly 10,000 developers their jobs since January.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The airliner, which competes against Qatar Airlines, is counting on agentic AI and the LLM to elevate its bookings and expand its share of the growing market, she said, adding that the six-month-old model has attracted 3 million visitors and has handled some bookings, but its value is far more strategic.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 11, 2022

In my new book, Digital Trailblazer, I tell several of my stories of creating and trying to address technical debt. "Let me tell you about one colossal coding mess that I created. It was an Italian restaurant filled with bowls of spaghetti code held together with duct tape and Band-Aids.".

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Social, Agile and Transformation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I leave fifty transformation leadership lessons for Digital Trailblazers, my name of aspiring transformation leaders, in my new book with that title. It has ten chapters of in-the-moment stories to see how I handled blow-up moments, responded to innovation detractors, and formed diverse leadership teams.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blackboards have been replaced with virtual whiteboards, projectors have made a permanent place for themselves in classrooms, and printed books are increasingly being replaced with eBooks. Teachers usually try to cultivate a reading habit among students by assigning reference books and the students may or may not read them with interest.

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GeekWire

APRIL 10, 2023

Agent 007, made his debut as the debonair MI6 spy 70 years ago in Ian Fleming’s first novel, “Casino Royale,” and went on to star in more than four dozen books and 27 movies. It was really exciting, this idea of developing new heroes, but also a challenge, of course,” Sherwood says. “If It has to go in the book,’” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. And were likely to see an increase of tech providers keeping large enterprises top of mind when developing the on-device technologies.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It was the last great campaign setting from D&D ‘s original publisher, which led to the development of the cult-classic PC game Planescape: Torment , and has had a big influence on D&D ever since. At the same time, however, AitM feels like it leaves a lot out, especially if you’re at all familiar with the original books.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2023

The 464-page book describes in detail how entrepreneurs, engineers and astronauts take advantage of a cache of material mined from an asteroid to create a giant, ring-shaped space station, a space-based solar power system, a mass driver for delivering resources from the moon and a nuclear-powered spaceliner. Critical Mass” by Daniel Suarez.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Sam Schillace, a Microsoft Deputy CTO, author of the new book, No Prize for Pessimism. Microsoft Images) This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Sam Schillace , a deputy CTO at Microsoft and author of the new book, No Prize for Pessimism, the first title from Microsoft’s new publishing imprint , 8080 Books.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2024

GeekWire and Otto Photos) A group of longtime travel industry veterans are teaming up on a new Seattle-based startup called Otto that is developing an AI-powered virtual assistant for business travel booking. Otto plans to offer its product for free and generate cash from a revenue-sharing model for facilitating bookings.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

Even as a pioneer in the AI field, it was a bit unusual (yet informative) today to see Hoffman sit down for a 14-minute interview with a virtual AI twin of himself — informed by a customized GPT trained on 20 years of Hoffman’s podcasts, speeches and books. But the business was going to take years and years to develop.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2023

AI will help make it possible “to take each individual and map out exactly how they should optimize their health and keep track of it,” says Leroy Hood, a life sciences leader known for his past role in developing automated methods for sequencing DNA. It might not be something we see, feel, or can sense.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

She’s something of a tech influencer , having published two books about the industry. SalesforceIQ, a software development company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, while his next venture, low-code platform vendor Airkit, was swallowed up by Salesforce in October 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Confronted with the prospect of destroying civilization, tech leaders have proposed two paths: moratoria on development or legislative regulation. Moratoria are unrealistic and regulation takes time to develop. A holistic framework considers not only the technology being developed, but the organization creating it.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Satya Nadella wrote about his son in his 2017 book, Hit Refresh , candidly describing how Zain’s birth required him to grow as a person. It was about deeply understanding what had happened to Zain, and developing empathy for his pain and his circumstances while accepting our responsibility as his parents.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The BE-4 is due for its first use on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket next year after development delays. The second stage is being developed separately, with an eye toward eventually making that stage fully reusable as well.

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