Xconomy

JULY 24, 2018

Come join us at our newest interactive conference, XCON: The Xconomy Conference on Technology and Transformation. This fall, we are convening exemplary business leaders, investors, and far-seeing technologists for an in-depth exploration of the innovation ecosystem and its impact on the future.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist Vinod Khosla made big headlines almost six years ago when he wrote a blog post called “Do We Need Doctors or Algorithms?”

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Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

Thrun (pictured) says many software engineers working at the raft of companies now developing self-driving vehicles have trained in the technology via Udacity , the educational technology company he. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

. —In other news from the moonshot day, Biden warned researchers in academia and industry that they would risk losing federal funding if they didn’t follow the law and report their clinical trial results to the public ClinicalTrials.gov database… IBM said it would deploy its Watson systems to help the U.S.

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Xconomy

JUNE 27, 2019

San Francisco-based Degreed is among the educational technology companies now classified as “learning experience platforms,’’ because they organize staff participation in skills development training and coordinate it with the goals of employers, who are their clients.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

But he’s also aware that the technology, if not used carefully, could end up hurting society. technologies. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I. startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

2018 was a year of ups and downs for the business and technology community. It was a year of big exits—both IPOs and acquisitions—for tech and life sciences companies. Venture funding remained strong, but more money went to fewer (and later-stage) companies overall.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Blockchain technology can help tell that tale. The food we buy in grocery stores and restaurants has a story to tell about where it came from and each step it took on its journey to your dinner table. The story many food companies want to tell these days is about safety.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 11, 2019

22, federal contractors and their workers—including technology professionals—face a loss of income that they may never recover. As federal agency employees miss their first paychecks today due to the partial government shutdown that began Dec.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2018

Given this development, technologists are focusing on how to ensure the technology usage is governed by ethics. That’s why Stewart says he’s among the founding members of AI Global , a new initiative with the goal of promoting responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

—Oral arguments in the landmark patent fight over ownership of the gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 were set for Dec. —IBM Watson Health and the Broad Institute have teamed up on a five-year, $50 million research project to study why tumors become resistant to cancer drugs. CRISPR DEVELOPMENTS. 6 at the U.S.

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Xconomy

MARCH 8, 2018

Just as the computing industry opened the way to technologies that enabled people to manage and analyze information in unprecedented ways, a new era in biology is opening the way for new technologies for understanding and using the code of life.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few. The “Connected Security Alliance” is led by Irvine, CA-based SecureAuth, which is joined by CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR ), SailPoint Technologies, and Exabeam.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. Now, her career has come to a close. LN: Right, he came on a sabbatical year.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2016

—IBM’s Watson Health group said that a commercial product could arrive in 2017 that uses machine learning to digest patient scans, medical records, and other information to help doctors with care decisions. Biostage cut ties with the surgeon in 2014.

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Xconomy

APRIL 12, 2018

The countdown clock is running for Big Data Meets Big Biology , and time is almost up to grab a seat for Xconomy’s half-day forum that will convene technology and life science innovators and influencers. Register today and save with our Procrastinator’s Special while it lasts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center. Tell us about that.

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Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2017

Our most exclusive conference, formally called The Napa Summit: The Xconomy Retreat on Technology, Jobs, and Growth, is limited to no more than. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Udacity , a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today—50,000 students have now graduated from one of its revenue-generating “Nanodegree” programs.

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2017

This story is part of an ongoing Xconomy series on A.I. in healthcare. These are heady times for using artificial intelligence to extract insights from healthcare data—in particular, from the tidal wave of information coming out of fields like genomics and medical imaging.

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2018

In two and a half weeks, Xconomy will host our seventh annual Napa Summit: The Xconomy Retreat on Technology, Jobs, and Growth. In the heart of California’s wine country, it is our most exclusive, intimate, and unique conference.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Take a look at this blurb for a session about data privacy at the upcoming RSA conference on cybersecurity. It sounds a polite warning: “The importance of privacy is often alluded to in generalized, value-laden terms that, while sincere, don’t necessarily help privacy be taken seriously in the enterprise risk management process.”

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