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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

It requires a lot more human intervention and human eyesight or brainpower and can only handle so much,” said Brian Brown , president of Transport Workers Union Local 550, representing Southwest dispatchers and meteorologists 4. Does your organization have the culture to support software development?

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

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Proteins are the molecular machines of life, performing essential tasks like building and repairing tissues, transporting molecules, and driving chemical reactions in cells. “Designing particular biochemical functions is getting more and more advanced,” said Baker, who gave a Nobel Prize lecture this week in Stockholm.

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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

We try to develop sustainable, durable, accessible, and intelligent transport responses to face the two great challenges of today’s society: the increase in world population and climate change. Bombardier Transportation was the same size as us, and also a global focus. billion in 2021? Not only Alstom, but all companies.

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SAP takes steps toward ‘green ledger’ for carbon accounting

CIO Business Intelligence

Late last year, seven PACT member companies demonstrated the exchange of product-level carbon emissions data in a trial using software developed by SAP, CircularTree, or their own in-house development teams. These estimates and averages just aren’t sufficient any longer,” he said.

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Oracle: Latest news and insights

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle unveils AI-powered coding assistant May 7, 2024: Oracle Code Assist will be fine-tuned with Oracle software development practices and coding patterns from Java, SQL, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and other technologies such as NetSuite SuiteScript.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

And in the transportation industry, he says, “AI can directly or indirectly impact the avoidance of transport, the steering of transport, and the management of transport.” We still have a lot to learn and improve to be able to include generative AI in such sensitive areas,” he says. Jeter has similar concerns.

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Lexmark International’s Vishal Gupta on next gen tech leadership

CIO Business Intelligence

This also means we can provide predictive maintenance solutions for other industries with connected products, like transportation and medical devices.” With Optra, we’re using the same technology that drove outcomes in our core imaging business and applying it to other manufacturers, retailers, and transportation companies,” he says.

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