Plano houses one of JPMorgan Chase's top technology centers. We talked with the firm's global CIO, Lori Beer, who says the region is critical to the company's strategy—and so is its technology talent.
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Both micro-donation platforms allow users to take leftover electronic change from a purchase and give it to their favorite cause. But, with the acquisition, Flourish Change will add the SEO power of RoundUp to extend its reach to more nonprofits and donors, targeting socially conscientious millenials.
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Patents granted include:
- Toyota's autonomous driving systems using aerial vehicles
- Walmart's automated vehicle loading
- Amazon's camera-level image processing
- Futurewei's noise cancellation system
- Intuit's lean parsing (a natural language processing system)
- Knightscope's autonomous data machines and systems
- Philip Morris's emulsified flavorants in tobacco-derived lipids
- SMU's method for machine learning and classifying data
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WORLD NEWS
Frisco-based MTX Group Inc. has launched a disease-monitoring app for coronavirus cases
The new disease monitoring and control application could help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Using real-time data and AI, the app can track travelers' symptoms, predict at-risk communities, and suggest the outbreak's movement. Currently, only New York is using it, but the Frisco-based company is talking to DFW Airport and others, the DMN reports.
PEOPLE MOVES
Workspace innovation company bolsters executive team
Dallas-based Vari, maker of the market-leading sit-stand desk, is promoting Sean Scogin from chief marketing officer to chief revenue officer and is adding Jeff Dinard as the new chief information officer. Scogin has been an exec with the company since its founding in 2014, and Dinard is the former CIO of Highland Homes, the largest single-family homebuilder in Texas.
ART
Psychedelic Robot’s owner calls it a Woodstock for Millennials
The Bivins Gallery at the Crescent first opened its Instagrammable, interactive pop-up museum in 2018, quickly grabbing the public's attention with its custom contemporary exhibitions and immersive experience. Now, Bivins is opening its third exhibition, Illuminated Walls, which will marry technology and art to show the "quintessential of a modern world," per The Observer.
To read more (and get our week's Top 10), head here.
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"It’s a free source of highly prized data."
Dr. Kevin Hamlen
Eugene McDermott Professor of Computer Science
UTD
...on setting traps for hackers, via unite.ai.
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UTD's newly developed method of cybersecurity, DEEP-Dig, is part of a growing field of so-called deception technology. It lures hackers into a decoy site so that the computer can learn their tactics.
“There are criminals trying to attack our networks all the time, and normally we view that as a negative thing,” Hamlen said on unite.ai. “Instead of blocking them, maybe what we could be doing is viewing these attackers as a source of free labor. They’re providing us data about what malicious attacks look like."
But what if the hackers figure it out? So far, Hamlen's not worried: "When an attacker tries to play along, the defense system just learns how hackers try to hide their tracks," he explained.
It’s an all-win situation—"for us, that is."
Read more about it on Dallas Innovates.
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