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GE Capital Nears $100 Billion in Asset Sales As GE Transforms

October 05, 2015
GE Capital has signed nearly $95 billion in deals to reduce its size as of the end of the third quarter, the company reported on Wednesday. The news comes less than six months after Jeff Immelt told investors that GE would become a more focused digital industrial company and sell most of its banking operations.
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No Screw Left Unexamined: This Digital Test Bed Can Track the Lives of Machines

October 03, 2015
New machines may not have souls, but they do have lives. Tracking them is the idea behind the Industrial Digital Thread Testbed. This mouthful of a name hides a clear goal: give each machine and even individual parts a digital “birth certificate,” track them through their lifetime, and make sure that the information is properly recorded. “It will give us the digital story of a part’s life from birth to death,” says Dave Bartlett, chief technology officer of GE Aviation. “This has never existed before at this level. Previously, records were disjointed and … very hard to pull together.”
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Let’s Get Connected: GE Digital Chief Bill Ruh Talks About Intelligent Machines and Our Optimized Future

Philip Trippenbach
September 25, 2015
Bill Ruh believes in intelligent machines as an emerging reality, not a distant sci-fi concept. “I’m looking forward to a future where the power never goes out, where the water is always clean, where airplanes always run on time, and where the health care industry is working to its full capacity,” he says. “Connected, intelligent machines can get us there.”
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GE takes coding to the kids

August 14, 2015
Oh to be a primary-school kid again. Specifically, a kid at Yarra Primary in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Richmond. With dynamo principal Tracy Hammill at the helm, the school is already a member of Melbourne University’s Excellence in STEM Education (ESTEME) program.
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When you code you begin with 01000001 01000010 01000011

June 16, 2015
The kids arriving in the GE Melbourne and Sydney offices after school barely pause to throw down their backpacks so they can get right back to coding. They’re all the children of GE employees and have been part of the company’s new Coding for Kids program, which has run through term two, one afternoon a week.
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Get with the programming: why all kids will be coders

June 10, 2015
 

“Coding is the new literacy. To thrive in tomorrow’s society, young people must learn to design, create and express themselves with digital technologies.” —Mitchel Resnick, media arts and sciences professor at the MIT Media Lab.
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Clever Country Code: 5 coding solutions paying it forward

May 06, 2015
Do you speak #BinaryCode? Join the conversation as machines communicate in their native tongue at Tweeting Machines and on Twitter: #GE0101
Talk, talk, talk. Computers are becoming increasingly interactive, communicating with each other and with us. Here are five disparate projects, all local examples of how code contributes. Talk about brilliant.
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Fire up the brain-food truck: podcasts that feed your mind

February 05, 2015
With digital listening—aka podcasts—enjoying a renaissance (Serial, anybody?), we’ve  lined up six science, tech and gadget podcasts for as many moods. Got a favourite of your own—let’s hear it via the comments section below!

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Marco Annunziata: How Interconnectedness Is Creating a New Kind of Industrial Company

Marco Annunziata GE
October 09, 2014
The convergence of the digital and the physical world spurred by the Industrial Internet and augmented by Advanced Manufacturing and the Global Brain is bringing a profound transformation to industry.
 

A connected device or machine becomes something entirely new. Think of the multiple roles that smartphones play in our everyday lives; or how cars are turning into communication and navigation platforms with an increasing degree of autonomy. The same revolution is underway in industry.
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‘You Bought It, You Own It’ Not So Fast…

Andrew Mcdiarmid Center For Democracy Technology
February 13, 2014
The phrase “you bought it, you own it,” sounds simple enough, but it turns out that this raises a lot of tricky issues when “it” is a digital good.
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