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“AI is the Industrial Revolution of knowledge work, transforming how all workers can apply information, create content, and deliver results at speed and scale,” said the “2024 AI Jobs Barometer,” a report from the professional services firm PwC. With the AI Jobs Barometer, PwC set out to find empirical evidence of the impact of AI…
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Earlier this year, MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gave the closing keynote at the 2024 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Professor Brooks was director of the MIT AI Lab from 1997 to 2003, and was the founding director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) from 2003 until 2007. A robotics entrepreneur, he’s founded…
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“Have you recently heard the CEO or other senior executive of a company say something like, we’re a technology company now?” asked Andrew McAfee ealier this year in his keynote at the 2024 MIT IDE Annual Conference. McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and co-founder and co-director of…
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A few months ago the Linux Foundation (LF) published the “2024 State of Tech Talent Report,” a comprehensive analysis of talent management practices in the IT sector. The study is based on a web survey conducted by the LF and its partners earlier this year. The survey reached out to individuals responsible for hiring and…
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After decades of promise and hype, artificial intelligence has finally become the defining technology of our era. Over the past few decades, the necessary ingredients have come together to propel AI beyond universities and research labs into the broader marketplace: powerful, inexpensive computer technologies; advanced algorithms, models, and systems; and, most important, huge amounts of…
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Psychological studies have shown that our judgement is affected by the many decisions we make every day and the friction-based paint points of making these decisions. So, not surprisingly, we look to technology and algorithms to help us make our decisions as frictionless as possible, said Renee Gosline in her keynote at the 2024 MIT…
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I have long been involved with the Linux Foundation (LF). In 2000, a consortium of companies, including IBM, HP, and Intel, founded the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a non-profit organization to support the continued development of Linux and promote its use in enterprise computing. A few years later, in 2007, the OSDL merged with…
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The 2024 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium took place on Tuesday, May 14 at the Royal Sonesta, a hotel overlooking the Charles River a short walk from the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA. Not surprisingly, AI was the dominant theme in this year’s Symposium, with a number of keynotes and panels on the topic. In addition,…
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Remote work, — aka work from home (WFH), — has been around for decades, but took off in the mid-late 1990s with the explosive growth of the internet. Some even predicted that the internet would lead to the decline of cities, because it would enable people to work, be in touch with friends and colleagues,…
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In 2021 the Linux Foundation (LF) announced the formation of Linux Foundation Research, a new organization to broaden the understanding of open source ecosystems and to explore opportunities for new open source initiatives. Given my long involvement with Linux, the Linux Foundation and open source communities in general, I was invited to become a member…