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The Government Acquisition Leaders Briefings are a key element of Showcase for Commerce, providing an opportunity for attendees to interact with military and government officials who are responsible for acquisition of vital goods and services. From military platforms and warfare systems to intelligence processes, they ensure that our military personnel have the resources they need to conduct successful operations. The network of providers includes not only military entities but industry and academia as well. Showcase offers unique and individual access to these decision makers in the United States military acquisition process.
Michael Cadieux
Director, U.S. Army Combat Capabilities
Development Command's Ground Vehicle
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Mr. Cadieux serves as the Director for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Ground Vehicle Systems Center, a position he has held since April 11, 2021. He leads a workforce of over 1,800 engineers, scientists, researchers and support staff in delivering advanced technologies as required by the Army's strategic priorities and support to its Cross Functional Teams. Mr. Cadieux also provides life cycle engineering solutions to the Army's Ground Combat Systems and Combat Support & Combat Service Support PEOs, the Tank Automotive Life Cycle Management Command, and the broader Department of Defense. In his capacity as the Director, Mr. Cadieux ensures the Ground Vehicle Systems Center is Forging the Future by developing world-class engineering talent in the areas of survivability and protection, autonomy and robotics, propulsion and mobility, electronics and power management, fuels and lubricants, and ground system design and optimization. The Ground Vehicle Systems Center is the Army's primary organic engineering talent to develop the Next Generation Family of Combat Vehicles and thus deliver land dominance in the future fight.
Vice President, Ground Vehicles
BAE Systems, Inc., Combat Mission Systems
Scott Davis is the vice president of Ground Vehicles at BAE Systems, Inc., Combat Mission Systems. The Ground Vehicles product line designs, develops, manufactures, and provides lifecycle support for a variety of combat vehicle systems for the U.S. Army and international customers. Scott joined BAE Systems in March 2019 and is responsible for driving consistent program performance and supporting the program teams with customer engagement. He partners with the Engineering and Operations functions to plan and execute all programs, focuses on continuous improvement for program delivery, and works closely with BAE Systems' customers.
Prior to joining BAE Systems, Scott was the vice president for Combat Vehicles and Armaments at Cypress International, Inc. where he served as the client manager for several key defense firms and oversaw company-wide consulting support for all Army related clients. Scott has held positions as the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Combat Support and Combat Service Support and the Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Ground Combat Systems, reporting to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASAALT).
Scott served in a civilian capacity for the U.S. Army for 31 years, including the two PEO assignments and other senior engineering and program management roles on some of the Army's most critical programs. Scott was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2005 and retired in 2018. Scott also served in the U.S. Army Reserve and retired at the rank of Colonel in 2015. He held a variety of operational positions from platoon leader through battalion executive officer and served on the Army Staff, and the International Security Assistance Force Staff in Kabul, Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Scott holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit, Mich., and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Scott has completed the Defense Acquisition University Advanced Program Management Course, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and holds certifications in Program Management and Systems Engineering. He was a member of the Army Acquisition Corps. He and his wife Susan reside in St. Clair Shores, Michigan and have two sons attending college in the state.
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Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson
15th District of Pennsylvania
Congressman Glenn "GT" Thompson represents Pennsylvania's 15th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the House Committee on Education & Workforce and is serving his fifth term as co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Career and Technical Education Caucus. In the 115th Congress, Thompson introduced the Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act, which passed the House and Senate unanimously and was signed into law by President Donald Trump. Thompson is the Republican leader of the Agriculture Committee and a senior member of the Education and Labor Committee.
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Plenary Session —In the plenary sessions, attendees will learn first-hand from industry leaders about military programs and their challenges, how industry can help them, and receive specific guidance on how businesses can work with them.
David Norquist
NDIA
The Honorable David L. Norquist is President and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), the largest Defense Industry association, whose mission includes contributing to the strength, resiliency, and capacity of the defense industrial base. Mr. Norquist came to the NDIA after serving as the 34th Deputy Defense Secretary from 2019 to 2021, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Defense Department, including managing the Pentagon's budget and personnel. He also oversaw efforts to reform the military's acquisition and accounting practices. His career also includes 30 years of experience in national security and federal financial management.
Captain Matthew L. Bolls
Aviation Operations Director, NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support, U.S. Navy
Captain Matthew L. Bolls currently serves as Aviation Operations Director (N98) at NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (WSS) in Philadelphia. NAVSUP WSS provides program and supply support for the weapon systems that keep our Naval forces mission ready. Prior to his current assignment, he served as Supply Officer on USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74). His shore assignments include serving as Deputy of Multinational Interagency Division in the Logistics Directorate (J4) of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon in Washington D.C.; Head POM Development Section at OPNAV N80 also at the Pentagon; and several other leadership roles. He has completed multiple deployments to the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and Western Pacific.
Mr. Conrad H. Bonner
Deputy Director, CENTCOM Regional Operations
United States Army Security Assistance Command
Mr. Conrad H. Bonner is the Deputy Director for CENTCOM Regional Operations within United States Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC). In this position, he manages the U.S. Army portfolio of international business programs within the USCENTCOM Region, which consists of more than 2,200 cases within 18 countries, with a total of $147 billion. Mr. Bonner also served in this command as the Director of Operations, Strategy and Security Prior to USASAC, Mr. Bonner had a 27-year career in the U.S. Army highlighted by a variety of positions, including his last military assignment with Headquarters U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command.
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Having won both the long jump and triple jump titles at the U17 Championships, both with new Scottish U17 national records, Cardrona athlete Ellie O'Hara moved up an age group to compete in the Scottish U20 event last weekend at the Emirates Arena.
On the first day, she took gold in the long jump, winning by over 20cm from the silver position and missing out on the U20 championship record by only two cms.
On day two, Peebles High School pupil Ellie, coached by Linda Nicholson and part of Live Borders Athlete Support Programme, competed in the triple jump and took gold by nearly a metre from the silver position with a leap of 11 metres 90cm, just short of her own Scottish U17 record.
The win gave Ellie a double gold in long jump and triple jump for the second weekend in a row and she takes her fine form into the Scottish School Championships this weekend, again at the Emirates.
Ellie's training partner Kate Harvie took bronze in the U15 triple jump and set a new personal best in the long jump, just missing out on the medals. Imogen Lewis did well in the U20 triple jump, reaching the final and jumping 10 metres 37cm.


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Only Trump, ISIS Celebrated Gen. Soleimani's Death: Zarif
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the only ones who celebrated the assassination of senior Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani were the US president and the ISIS terrorist group.
Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue Forum in New Delhi, India, Zarif described the late Iranian commander as the single most effective force against the ISIS terrorist group
"Soleimani was the single most effective force against Daesh (ISIS). Who are celebrating death of Soleimani? Not ordinary people, but Trump, Pompeo, and Daesh," he said.
"When they assassinated a revered general [Qassem Soleimani] in Iraq, violating Iraqi sovereignty, they thought, as Secretary Pompeo tweeted, that people would be dancing in the streets of Tehran and Baghdad. Actually he picked up a small gathering of a few and tweeted that we rid the region of whatever he wanted to call him, and then people are dancing."
"That showed two things which are very dangerous and when combined become even more dangerous: ignorance and arrogance. And when you become an arrogant ignorant or an ignorant arrogant, it becomes a disaster particularly if you have a lot of power," he said.
"Now you've seen the reaction not just in Iran – I was surprised to hear that 430 Indian cities, 430 Indian cities, there were spontaneous demonstrations and meetings to commemorate General Soleimani, the Americans' 'terrorist'," Zarif noted.
"Now the United States talks about proxies. Do we have proxies in India? Are the proxies we have in Iraq numbering the millions (because millions came to the streets of Iraq to commemorate him)?"
"[…] you certainly cannot bring people, eight thousand people in Delhi, nine thousand people in Mumbai, you cannot bring them out by any proxy measure."
The Iranian top diplomat said "the United States needs to think again about our region. They are making a mistake. They are adding one mistake to the other."
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Europe starts to walk 'tightrope' out of coronavirus lockdown
April 14, 2020 at 3:04 pm Updated April 14, 2020 at 3:13 pm
Loveday Morris
BERLIN — As they take their first tentative steps toward lifting coronavirus lockdowns, European governments face a precarious balancing act, with any misstep potentially deadly.
Leaders must weigh costs to the economy, mental health and education against the potential for a spike in cases that snaps back any progress toward reducing the spread of COVID-19, the disease the coronavirus causes.
The first easing of restrictions began this week, with Austria reopening some nonessential businesses on Tuesday. Denmark is expected to allow children to return to school this week. And Spain has allowed construction and factory workers to go back, though a national lockdown otherwise remains in effect.
Their progress will likely be carefully watched from across the Atlantic, where President Donald Trump is feuding with governors about how and when to reopen the economy.
While decisions to shutter schools, close borders and tell the country to stay home came relatively swiftly, the considerations on lifting restrictions are slow and fraught, requiring an acceptance of an increased risk to public health. There are no established best practices for timing or sequencing. And policymakers have to be ready to adjust course if new outbreaks occur.
"We have to play it by ear, because there is no gold standard on how to do it," said Frank Ulrich Montgomery, chair of the World Medical Association.
Most countries in Europe have come around to advising that masks be worn as people are allowed to start moving around in public again — the Spanish government distributed free masks to commuters this week. Thorough testing is also considered key to tracking and isolating infection chains.
While antibody studies are being used in an attempt to assess what portion of the population already has been unwittingly infected, issues over testing accuracy and questions over how long protection lasts complicate plans for "immunity passports."
Some scientists have floated strategies narrowly tailored to protect the most vulnerable, but keeping the elderly separated from loved ones for months on end also must be balanced against the health impact of isolation.
In an attempt to avoid any repeat of the policy decisions that accompanied the spread of the virus in the bloc, European Union leaders in Brussels plan to unveil suggestions on Wednesday for how to reopen the 27-nation group gradually in the coming months.
They will advise countries to reopen economies in phases, with shops and schools given first priority, and restaurants and other social venues coming later, according to a draft of their plans. Policymakers caution that leaders need to move slowly — potentially waiting a month between each new step — and be prepared to reverse themselves quickly if infections start a quick spread again.
But each national government will have the final say on lifting restrictions within its borders. And when to resume free movement between countries in Europe will be another discussion entirely.
French President Emmanuel Macron provided a glimpse of what France's de-confinement may look like in a nationally televised address Monday night. France will remain on full lockdown until May 11, Macron said, but then nursery schools, middle schools and high schools would "progressively" reopen beginning in mid-May.
"Many children are missing out of school," he said, "and there is an inequality in that there are those who don't have internet access and who can't be helped by their parents."
Universities, however, would not feature in-person classes until at least the summer. Other businesses — such as restaurants and cafes — would remain closed for the near future, Macron said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is slated to announce Wednesday when restrictions might be loosened in Germany. A study she said would help inform her decision advises opening schools as soon as possible, beginning with students in primary school for whom distance learning is less effective and in core subjects such as German and math, with staggered classes.
The study, by scientists at Germany's Leopoldina National Academy, also says data obtained through testing will be key to making informed decisions. Antibody studies can assess what portion of people already have immunity as restrictions are gradually lifted.
"During the phase of gradual easing, we must prevent a renewed rapid increase in the number of infections," the paper said. "We have to walk a tightrope."
A majority of Germans do not want restrictions lifted yet, according to a YouGov survey published this week, with 44% in favor of distancing measures being extended and a further 12% saying they would like to see them tightened.
Janina Possehl, 35, is among those who are cautious. Out for a walk in Berlin's Schoeneberg district, with her 6-month-old son strapped to her front and a 3-year-old trailing behind on a tricycle, she said would keep her kids home even if schools and kindergartens reopened.
"I think it'd be good for them to stay closed longer," she said, while conceding that it was harder for working parents. "I would be really careful about loosening the restrictions too early," she added.
But most countries can't afford to wait under lockdown until a vaccine is developed and widely and safely available, which could take until 2021 or longer, or until their populations build enough natural immunity to slow the spread of the virus, which Merkel has said could take as long as two years.
"If you are optimistic, we might have a vaccine in one year," said Alexander Kekule, director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. "But we can't keep the people for one year in lockdown. You would have economic and psychological breakdown."
European policymakers have expressed worries about the consequences of a fragmented approach toward the reopening, warning that if individual countries pursue their own plans without consulting with their neighbors, political tensions could result, much as they did when borders suddenly sprouted across Europe last month.
Those that have managed to slow the rate of transmission may have a longer balancing ahead of them, experts say.
"One of the problems is, the more effective you are in flattening the curve of infection, the longer it takes until you have immunity in the population, and this is the dilemma of our politicians," Montgomery said.
Britain, where leaders last month talked about building "herd immunity" and which was among the last in Europe to introduce social distancing measures, is now reporting the highest number of daily new cases in Europe. And, for now, it remains committed to its lockdown.
It would be "premature" to say coronavirus cases have peaked in Britain, warned the country's deputy chief medical officer, Jonathan Van-Tam. He said it was too early to discuss loosening the lockdown.
"We are in a dangerous phase still," Van-Tam told reporters at a briefing before the long Easter holiday weekend. "And I need to reinforce that again to you, that this is not over."
In Italy, the government has used the term Phase II to describe its planned emergence from a rigid lockdown. It is still hashing out what the country's loosening should look like, and whether it will be possible to begin that phase on May 4, as planned.
Official government statistics show the country's total cases growing roughly 3% every day — and scores more cases are undetected, with people going untested, isolating at home and passing the virus to their families.
But Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has faced growing pressure to reopen, with far-right League party leader Matteo Salvini saying Tuesday that staying closed could lead to "economic disaster."
On Tuesday, the government took the first modest steps, allowing for the reopening of bookstores, stationary stores and shops selling clothing for babies.
Roberto Burioni, a professor of microbiology and virology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, called reopening a political decision and said the government should require all people to wear masks when leaving the house and needed some form of contact tracing.
He also suggested Italy adopt a policy that people found to have the virus — as well as their contacts — by isolated in hotels or other facilities, not at home.
"I understand we need to start again," Burioni said. "But, I'm warning — we need this. Without this, it will be a tragedy, and we'll have to start [lockdown] again."
The Washington Post's Luisa Beck in Berlin, Michael Birnbaum in Brussels, William Booth in London, Chico Harlan in Rome, Pamela Rolfe in Madrid and James McAuley in Paris contributed to this report.
Video: http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/life-under-lockdown-american-teacher-in-spain-turns-to-music-and-backflips-while-at-home/2020/04/06/d30cdf3a-c006-4a8c-acec-00d9d5c21a10_video.html(REF:arda/The Washington Post)
This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com. Read it here.


Recently, I had the chance to sit down for a drink with Grady Booch. For anyone who doesn't know his name yet, he's a technology pioneer, innovator, and all-around fascinating guy. He was a primary creator of the Unified Modeling Language, and his career has included everything from work at NASA (where he was literally the guy sitting in front of the big red self-destruct button during launches) to his current gig serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research. I can also tell you he makes a mean Hawaiian-twist margarita.
Grady's been at the center of some of the greatest developments in coding and technology in the past few decades which makes him a deep well for serious topics. Our conversation touched a lot of areas, but I was most fascinated by his take on one topic that the technology sector wrestles with every day: the ethics of code.
I don't think it's contentious to say that digital innovations are driving changes in every industry and sector at a pace that we have never seen before. Some of those changes have led to large-scale, fundamental shifts in the business landscape, and some of them have led to smaller, more nuanced opportunities for new and existing businesses. All of those changes, however, have the potential to affect people in more than just the positive ways we have in mind when we code.
From the Luddite Rebellion of 1811 to the Lamplighter's Union fight against the electric arc lamp in the 1890s, worries about automation displacing human jobs has existed for literally millennia. Those fears have been offset by the reality that change typically takes place slowly. Robots, for a more modern example, didn't take all the manufacturing jobs overnight. Instead, robotics has gradually reduced the need for "hands on" humans in the factory over the past several decades. The jobs lost weren't effortlessly absorbed into the economy, but the shift happened slowly enough that they could ultimately be absorbed.
Today, the fear of automation displacing jobs that can't be absorbed is far more possible. Technology is progressing at a breakneck speed no matter where you turn, and no industry seems insulated from waves of innovation that use automation to do things more efficiently and effectively. What was once just a concern for manufacturing workers is now a concern for everyone whose work has any analytical or repetitive features. Want to build a car with no factory workers? Look no further than the Tesla plant. If you need an appendectomy on the other hand, you'll still need a surgeon for their dexterity for the very near future. It's not far-fetched to imagine a future, however, when an attendant might oversee an automated appendectomy like a Starbucks barista making digital selections on a Mastrena Espresso Machine.
The work we're doing in tech carries incredible weight that we may often take too lightly.
Factories or hospitals, the work we're doing in tech carries incredible weight that we may often take too lightly. We are actively finding ways to increase efficiency in every field—and I laude that. But as our enterprise level efficiencies move up the hockey stick, we need to start thinking about jobs the same way we balance environmental impacts of our work. The impacts of our work goes well beyond the innovations we create. If it hasn't been asked before, it's time to ask now: what ethical responsibilities do we have as we use code to transform the world?
Concern over the ethics of code opens the door to larger conversation about how Artificial Intelligence, along with the changing ways we work, is incubating a new economic model in the West. It's a model that requires different competencies and job types, but it also has the potential to empower humans like never before in our history.
Visions of AI have tantalized, inspired and terrified us for years. From Hal 9000 to Ex Machina, we portray AI as a conscious super intelligence or super villain. The reality is much more benign in the Hollywood sense and more insidious in its potential impact to our economy. The AI that's real today is known as "Narrow AI" or "Applied AI" and it does very specific work like managing your calendar, finding a song that's similar to others you like, giving you directions that route you around traffic and beating you in chess. It's what many of us are working on every day, and, despite our fears of super-intelligence, Narrow AI is what is actually changing everything.
Dr. Rand Hindi, founder of Snips.ai, broke this down in detail in an article with a title that I love: "How My Research in AI Put My Dad Out of a Job." Beyond the ethical jam, his point was that we shouldn't worry about super-intelligence despite all the big names in tech who have come out with dire warnings. The reality is that super-intelligence could be a distant dream, and as Dr. Hindi puts it, we're "missing the point that in the next decade, Narrow AI will already have destroyed our society if we don't handle it correctly." Though the warning is a bit hyperbolic, it's true that when we focus on super-intelligence (also known as Strong AI for Artificial General Intelligence) we forget that Narrow AI's inherently limited scope means that coders are working on discrete uses in every imaginable way. Narrow AI will replace or transform any job where information gathering and pattern recognition drive a volume business. That's not just laborers. That's accountants, traders, realtors, lawyers, software developers and on and on. The jobs can be low pay or high pay, but either way, AI can do it faster.
We're already beginning to see how AI will become invaluable in these fields. For instance, one Canadian firm – Blue J Legal – is using AI to help accountants and tax lawyers predict how courts are likely to rule on a given set of facts and client circumstances years into the future. A Palo Alto-based legal startup, Casetext, is enabling lawyers to upload briefs and have AI do the case research work of hundreds of paralegals. In Japan, Fukoku Mutual, an insurance firm, is replacing 34 claims adjustors per instance with AI built from IBM's Watson. In the US, we are particularly susceptible to Narrow AI affecting the industry. PwC found earlier this year that 38% of all US jobs are at a high risk for automation in the next 15 years. That's just one of a number of studies that have reached the same conclusion: the next two decades will be a wild one for our economy if we don't make planful changes soon.
That's certainly not to say that every kind of job in the US is at risk. There is such a thing as "immunity to AI," at least for the few couple decades. The simplest way to identify jobs that are insulated is to ask, "Does it require emotional intelligence or 'non-patterned' based decision making?" Ultimately, that leads to three broad categories of jobs.
The first category is jobs that require meaningful creative interactions with other people. Narrow AI can advise on the most successful closing strategies for a particular case, but it's not capable of making a compelling closing argument in court. Even if we use an AI system to develop an argument based on the court's preferences, to identify and incorporate all of the relevant case law and to select words and phrases that most people find persuasive – Narrow AI lacks a clear path to replace the human ability to deliver an argument to humans or to adapt mid-stride in reaction to others.
The same can be said for any number of professions. Marketing strategy and design will need human creativity and emotion. HR will need people to listen, empathize and make the right, context-based decisions. Nurses will need to bring humanity to patient interactions and treatment. Teachers will need to bring expertise and learner-specific strategies to education. Even customer service will need humans in place to receive escalations that go beyond an AI's ability to address.
The second category of jobs are those that won't be replaced (yet) due to limitations of robotics. Our ability to code has progressed far faster than our ability to build machines capable of fine motor skills or dealing with unpredictable physical challenges. Repetitive physical tasks are one thing, but as a report from McKinsey & Company last year pointed out, even maid service in hotel goes beyond the capabilities of autonomous machines. For example, everyone throws towels and pillows in different places, and automated robots simply can't deal with that degree of difference in a cost-effective way. And though we are aggressively developing more advanced robots, it's expensive and time-consuming to build them, meaning fields like on-site construction will largely have security for the foreseeable future even as the tools of the jobs change. None of that is to say that AI will not impact these first two categories of jobs. In fact, the most likely scenario is that many of these jobs will transform to work side by side with Narrow AI tools sooner than later.
The third category of AI insulated jobs are entrepreneurs. Be it a startup founder or a food truck operator who works alone, entrepreneurial roles require aspects of the of the first and second categories to various degrees. Small business entrepreneurs and solopreneurs wear many hats on any given day—be it CEO, CMO, CFO, CIO, etc. That diversity of work makes entrepreneurial work very difficult to automate.
I don't believe we should ignore the "I" in that question. The ethical dilemma we face in technology is one of our own creation, and that, to me, means it's incumbent on the tech community to deliver the solution as well. Said simply, if you're aware that the work you're doing is going to displace jobs, you should be intentional in your effort to leverage technology to create new opportunities for the displaced.
intentional in your effort to leverage technology to create new opportunities for the displaced.
Snap.ai's Dr. Rand Hindi proposes an interesting idea for social and governmental programs that would support an economic framework that will make widespread, AI-driven transformation sustainable. His argument is that the end result of displaced or altered jobs due to AI is a population that must be more educated to do the job of managing or interfacing with AI. That means we need to incentivize people to have ongoing, skills-based education in technology.
Dr. Hindi poses Universal Educational Income, a system in which people would receive a monthly salary as long as they are enrolled in some kind of educational program. There are any number of challenges that come to my mind when any universal income is proposed—from who funds that scope of spending to can it ever be enough to make a difference. It's not an obviously viable policy but I can certainly appreciate the beauty of the idea: create a system that engineers people into the AI equation. By incentivizing people to constantly learn, you have a more prepared workforce for a new economy. It's a fascinating possible solution, and I believe the spirit of engineering our culture into an AI fueled economy is the right one. That said, I believe there are better ways to make that happen.
First, I believe a simple premise is true: the faster we advance AI, the more we will drive demand for humans to manage and direct what AI makes possible. The reality is we are heading towards a huge supply of Narrow AI in the economy. Look at marketing for example, a field that is seeing a huge amount of investment in predictive AI technologies. Even as AI becomes acutely capable of optimizing ad spend and placement, the two select roles of the Marketing and Creative Directors actually grow in importance. The repetitive work is displaced, but demand for the creative thinking is actually on the rise. In other words, there has never been a better time to have the entrepreneurial spirit because technology and market forces are in place to support you.
Steve Case, CEO of Revolution LLC, gave a perfect example of this in a recent LinkedIn post. Two hundred years ago farming represented 90% of the American workforce. Now, that number is less than 2%. Rather than purely displacing jobs, technology made farmers more efficient and productive, and new jobs were created by the need to supply and support modern agriculture. In a modern context, it's easy to envision new entrepreneurial roles that wouldn't be possible without AI—ones made possible by bundling creativity and dexterity with deep analytical insights.
What jobs will best augment or enhance what AI can do? How can the tech industry be as instrumental in creating jobs as we are in displacing them? These are question that everyone driving tech automation should be thinking about. I'm pushing (at GoDaddy) to drive a platform to empower entrepreneurs to make their ideas real with the help of machine learning tools and predictive analytics to guide their decision making. I think that's one important way to help make our economy immune to AI, but I'd like to challenge the industry to think of a hundred more solutions—and then get working to test them.
For entrepreneurial options, our goal should be to deploy Narrow AI in a way that encourages more and more people to experiment with the self-driven ventures. If we engineer tools that reduce the barriers to access through elegantly simple systems and widespread availability, then the technology we build for efficiency can help us empower economic participants at the same time. There's no doubt that we can be the drivers of a new economy with new companies and new careers – but we have to be intentional about that role.
Finally, I think the tech industry needs to be a louder voice in the real risks to our economy that Narrow AI is creating right now. Grady Booch and other luminaries shouldn't be left to carry the entire load. More of us need to clearly articulate why people should be excited about the promise of AI and its real economic dangers. We aren't building Skynet, but we might be building something just as dangerous for billions of people if we don't purposefully create new opportunities as the old economy passes.
Larry Niven once said, "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." That's a timely and true quip in its own right, but it should also remind us that we are the one's behind the code. We have an ethical opportunity to consider and attempt to address what will happen because of our code.
As we create new applications for AI that make it possible for seemingly once magical automation to happen, we should devote some of our time and energy to figuring out how to make more people magicians. Let's help more people become builders of the new economy by putting the power of what we build in their hands as quickly and simply as possible. That's how we'll begin to see the new jobs and businesses emerge that will drive a new economy forward. No matter what, we need to bring our own humanity to bear every time we type a line of code. If we can do that, there will certainly be no reason to fear Skynet – but there will also be a lot to be excited about thanks to the future of AI.
One of the best ways for me to mature my thoughts on the ethics of code is to hear from you. Please share your thoughts below—I tend to be on my blog in the evenings, so look for my responses then.
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A recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that the IRS needs to modernize its processing for amended tax returns to reduce erroneous refunds, processing costs, and taxpayer burden.
Taxpayers file Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, to correct previously filed income tax returns. Claims filed on an amended tax return can relate to any item of income, loss, exclusion, deduction, or credit and may result in a tax refund. The IRS only allows amended tax returns to be filed on paper. As a result, there is additional taxpayer burden and increased potential for erroneous tax refund payments.
The IRS received more than 4 million amended tax returns in fiscal year 2012. The TIGTA audit was initiated because previous audits have identified problems with IRS processes for verifying claims on amended tax returns. The objective of this audit was to determine whether the IRS has controls in place to ensure that claims for refunds on amended tax returns are appropriate.
TIGTA found that a statistical sample of 259 amended tax returns claiming tax refunds of $500 or more in fiscal year 2012 identified 44 (17%) tax returns for which the IRS issued potentially erroneous tax refunds totaling $103,270.
Based on the sample results, TIGTA estimates the IRS may have issued more than $439 million in potentially erroneous tax refunds claimed on 187,421 amended returns in fiscal year 2012.
As such, the IRS could issue more than $2.1 billion in potentially erroneous tax refunds claimed on amended tax returns over the next five years.
To reduce erroneous refunds, processing costs, and taxpayer burden, the IRS could revise Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, to allow for corrections to original tax return filings and expand e-filing to include amended tax returns. TIGTA estimates that the IRS could have potentially saved more than $17 million in processing costs during fiscal year 2012 if it had allowed taxpayers to e-file their amended tax return.
The IRS agreed with two of TIGTA's three recommendations and disagreed with one. Although the IRS disagreed with revising Form 1040, the IRS plans to consider changing the format and appearance of Form 1040X. The IRS also plans to consider e-filing of amended tax returns based on available funding and resources. The IRS reviewed the 44 potentially erroneous refund returns and generally agreed that procedures were not correctly followed for those identified as having processing errors.


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BORDEN, Ind. – Archie Miller met with the media on Wednesday night prior to Indiana's "On the Road with the Hoosiers" tour stop at Huber's Winery.
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Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming
Fossil Butte is home to the largest deposit of freshwater fish fossils in the world.
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There are plenty of mammal fossils to be found along your road trip, but the reason to head north for our next stop is that Fossil Butte is home to the largest deposit of freshwater fish fossils in the world [source: Wyoming Tourism]. These fossils, from organisms that lived more than 50 million years ago during the Eocene Epoch, are embedded in the various layers of limestone that descend 100 feet from the top of the butte.
Start your tour at the visitor's center where you can see more than 80 fossils, including a 13-foot crocodile and the largest-known articulated bat, and enjoy demonstrations that show how fossils are prepared. If you are visiting during the summer months, on Fridays and Saturdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., you can hike to the fossil research quarry and help park staff round up fossils. There are also several other hiking trails and some great picnic spots.
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I began writing "Portals" as a reaction to the more serious chamber compositions I was working on at the time. Sometimes it feels great to let loose. The resulting piece is a karaoke-like track full of synths and drums, and a driving saxophone part with playful melodies and rhythmic twists. The first movement is a primordial, almost sci-fi scattering of sounds and echoes. Those sounds coalesce into the second movement's undeniably pop grooves.
This piece has also been arranged for solo oboe and electronics.
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The bright side is that as of today RadioShack. Wireless Hdmi Radioshack… has actually officially been bought by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), offering the struggling company a new lease on life. The disadvantage, a minimum of for folks like us, is that there are no immediate plans to return the iconic electronic devices merchant to its brick-and-mortar roots. As the name implies, REV focuses on online retail, having actually previously revamped the Internet presence of other insolvent organizations such as Pier 1 Imports and Dressbarn.
While the press release does not straight-out preclude the possibility of brand-new physical RadioShack areas, it's clear that REV thinks the future of retail isn't to be found in your local strip mall. As the United States mulls even more lockdowns in reaction to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, it's tough to disagree. There will be millions of bored kids and grownups trying to find something to do throughout the long winter season nights, and an electronic package or 2 delivered to their door might be simply the thing.
REV says they prepare to relaunch the rather dated RadioShack website just in time for the company's 100th anniversary in 2021. Since this composing the website presently says that sales have actually been momentarily halted to enable inventory restructuring, though it's unclear if this is directly related to the buyout or not. Getting an accurate count of how much product the company still has on hand after shuttering the majority of their physical areas in 2017 definitely sounds like something the brand-new owners would want to do.
RadioShack's shambling remains were given another jolt of life today when they were acquired by another company that plans to relaunch the once-great seller as an online-focused brand.
The shop's remains were acquired by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), a start-up founded in 2019 that's been scooping up brands from other faded retail giants as well, consisting of Pier 1, Modell's Sporting Product, Dressbarn, and more. REV says RadioShack's website already has "strong existing sales and sales capacity," and the business is "positive" it can even more raise awareness of the brand internationally.
REV declares it's effectively turned around other companies it's launched as online brands. The Wall Street Journal reported that Dressbarn more than doubled its earnings between the first and second quarter of 2020.
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REV states it will "soon relaunch" RadioShack's website. So for those of you still sticking on to fond memories of the shop, there'll be a familiar enough place to go when you want to buy pricey HDMI cables and knockoff headphones.
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To compose a statement, you ought to think of a considerable measure ahead of time because keeping in mind the end goal to persuade a confirmation office you ought to likewise be persuaded without anyone else's input. In the principle part it is important to characterize your own objectives (short-and long haul) as clear as could be expected under the circumstances. It intends to explain to them why you need to study at any rate. Let the world "personal" not delude you, your objectives do not need to be restricted by your own life. Additionally, it will be better on the off chance that you embed them into worldwide setting of creating science, culture, society or your nation. In the meantime, be cautious and do not overcompensate. Obviously, you may compose that subsequent to picking up learning at the college you are planning to save mankind from malignancy and secure peace in entire world, if you can later prove you are in a position to do it. Objectives ought to be genuine and achievable, yet not too simple.
In accomplishing an objective it is essential to have the inspiration. It implies that in two-three sentences you should persuade the affirmation office that you are ready to become a college student.
At that point, it is additionally critical to contend that this college is the one you need to concentrate on. Try not to be languid and learn as much as you can about the college you are applying for. Search a few eccentricities of their program (for instance, in the event that they have extraordinary research center, courses, library with a great deal of books and so on).
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For Master's projects and entry level positions, it is additionally imperative that you specify your past work involvement in the circle of your specialization. The portrayal of your accomplishments is appearing to affirmation office that your decision is not a one-time thing, but the wise closure of the improvement of your interests.
At last, keep in mind one more essential part. You ought to educate what you will do subsequent to graduating. This indicate is connected the first, where you should tell about your objectives. It will demonstrate the affirmation office that you are not overlooking your objectives and truly endeavor to accomplish them.


Ah, Friday. For many, this signals the start of two free days to kick back and play their favorite games. To help you out with that, we've put some new maps on Minecraft Realms for PC, and have brought back some old favorites as well. Whether you'd like to quietly admire new builds by yourself, or frenetically compete with a group of friends, we've got something for everyone!
Gather your friends and grab a potato! Hot Potato is the kind of sport where you don't want to be left holding the ball. Keep your eyes peeled for any agitators rushing you with a spud, and if you get hit, mash your mouse until you pass it off to someone else. These are exploding tubers, so toss them before they detonate!
If you'd like to start a new survival game, but don't want to stress over building up your farms, fire up this world template. In Vaslen, you'll find a green mesa and five cozy shacks. Just be careful, this map starts at night!
Zombies gather to attack, beginning their approach to your fort. The narrow canyon walls make it difficult for the creatures to move in groups, and from your perch in the guard tower, you line up the perfect shot. With a quiver of arrows and a bit of luck, the sun will be up before the monsters reach you.
We also have a special mention, for anyone that didn't catch the Light Your Way Home blog post. The map, aptly titled Light Your Way Home, is part of the #MinecraftIRL campaign, designed to blur the lines between the real world and the crafted world. You can grab this map on Realms, under the adventure map category.
Our next Realms content update, appropriately winter and/or holiday themed, is on December 16th! Make sure that you check in on that day for another blog post filled with all of the details.
If you're curious about how to get your own creations on Minecraft Realms, check out our updated guidelines over at /r/Realms.


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