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Inside the mind of a top CIO

November 28, 2016
Mark Sheppard formed his first software company with a mate back in the ’80s. The two 14-year-olds growing up outside the city of Oxford in England, had programmed an adventure game and sold 15 copies—they were pretty happy!
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Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out Of New Technology

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 27, 2016

In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new high-tech diagnostic equipment.

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Qantas’s top 5 takeouts from Minds + Machines 2016

November 19, 2016
As Murray Adams, manager of operations, analytics and reporting at Qantas walked back through the great tech hall of Minds + Machines 2016, last Friday on his way to dinner in San Francisco before hopping a flying kangaroo for Sydney, he checked for: tickets, passport and valuable takeouts from the two-day festival of digital-industrial ideas and insights.
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Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From Hurricanes

November 17, 2016
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the sunscreen and her steel-toed boots and spent a week aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. There, Guzzo created a “digital twin” of the pipes that connect oil wells to drill ships—equipment called the drilling riser—turning an idea her team imagined in the lab into an application that could save millions of dollars.
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Building a digital ecosystem? Add this to your must-watch list…

November 15, 2016
Early on Wednesday November 16, the cogs begin turning on the most significant digital-industrial event of the coming year: GE’s Minds + Machines.
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The business of genius, and a 10-year-old CEO

November 15, 2016
A 10-year-old who neglects schoolwork because he’s focussed on building a multinational cybersecurity company. One of only two schools in the world dedicated to the handful of children inhabiting the upper echelons of the intelligence spectrum. And a super smart, articulate kid who regresses to baby talk after failing to fit in at school.
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A high-voltage app for New Zealand's energy demand

November 09, 2016
It may seem a grid too far to expect an electricity transmission network to be agile. But as power plants go digital, distributed power grows through renewables and battery storage, and the data lakes connecting it all grow ever deeper, grid operators must stay light on their feet.
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Student challenge: change the world in 90 days

October 21, 2016
Want to make a difference? A group of Sydney-based universities and GE are testing the hypothesis that bringing together student spark and digital-industrial know-how can accelerate change.
The experiment: take 30 engineering and IT students from Australia’s top universities; add mentors, training, and a powerful software platform; place in a Generator with a tangle of real-world industrial challenges; and shake!
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Catching a unicorn—recruiting for jobs of the future

October 19, 2016
Seeking: Software developer with an entrepreneurial spirit. Must have an insatiable desire to collaborate with clients. You will lead projects in new markets, and work with big, dirty datasets to create digital solutions to problems both known and as yet unimagined. Only those with a highly developed sense of curiosity will be considered. Awareness of Predix an advantage. Think you’re the full stack? Apply in code to the world’s biggest digital industrial company.
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Forget The Consumer Internet Of Things: IIoT Is Where It’s Really At

Jon Pittman
October 13, 2016

While consumer IoT applications may get a lot off buzz, factories are likely to have the greatest potential economic impact from IoT use. Jon Pittman, vice president of corporate strategy for Autodesk, turned his house into an IoT testing ground and came up with three lessons for Industrial Internet of Things systems.

 

 
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