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Can developer productivity be measured? Better than you think

CIO Business Intelligence

Measuring developer productivity has long been a Holy Grail of business. In 2020, McKinsey surveyed 440 large companies about their “ developer velocity” — meaning the practices that best tap the full potential of development talent. Right now, there are roughly 27 million developers on the job, 4.4 That isn’t easy.

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IBM announces 50-fold quantum speed improvement

Network World

IBM launched its most advanced quantum computer yet last week at its inaugural quantum developer conference. Last year’s experiment used custom circuits and software. Now, IBM customers can run the same experiments using IBM’s quantum computing software development kit, Qiskit. IBM And there’s another improvement.

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Nvidia and Siemens to accelerate digital twins’ development

CIO Business Intelligence

Nvidia made its name designing chips that can dramatically accelerate certain kinds of calculations — those involved in rendering 3D models, for instance — but has recently moved into software development. This will begin with 400 offerings in four domains: real estate, utilities, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, Koerte said.

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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments

CIO Business Intelligence

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced that it has appointed Avril Chester as its new Chief Technology Officer. In her new role, Avril will have “responsibility for executive leadership of all the technology functions, including technical architecture, software development, operations and product delivery.” March 2022.

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For Nobel Prize winner David Baker, it’s back to the lab as protein pioneer helps launch more startups

GeekWire

But the University of Washington professor is surely itching to get back to his lab on campus in Seattle, where he works with students and fellow researchers on the future of protein design, a fast-moving field using state-of-the-art technology to develop new therapeutics, vaccines, biosensors, materials and more. AstraZeneca paid $1.1

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Still, software developers seeking to leverage graphics chips for non-graphical applications had to wrangle their calculations into a form that could be sent to the GPU as a series of instructions for either Microsoft’s DirectX graphics API or the open-source OpenGL (Open Graphics Library).

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How this tech engineer is using his son’s rare disease as inspiration to disrupt drug development

GeekWire

And during his first year, Sanath and Ramya tried so hard to help their son grow and develop like a typical child. And the doctors were able to successfully petition the FDA to let them use another drug that a pharmaceutical company was developing for a different disease. He’s adorable. He needed a feeding tube to eat.