Data privacy measures such as the General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act are expanding the definition and protection of private sensitive data. Anonymization efforts, though valiant, can only go so far. “You can only manage what you measure, right?” said Hannah Sperling (pictured), business process intelligence, academic and research alliances at SAP SE. “But ...

Diversity in data sets is integral in bringing robotics out of the lab and into the real world. Gender diversity in the data science and robotics workplace is equally important. “Robotics can be a very niche subject, and a lot of people get into it from gaming,” said Maggie Wang (pictured), autonomy engineer at Skydio Inc. “But ...

The gender gap in the tech workforce is steep. While women make up half of the workforce, they represent less than a quarter of employees in STEM positions. The reasons for gender disparity in tech fields might be nuanced, from lack of opportunity to cultural expectations to outright non-admittance into STEM educational programs. Organizations such ...

Mainframe architecture has been the computing standard for decades, but is it approaching extinction?  The data center mindset is migrating from traditional mainframe to the cloud, increasing businesses’ agility — and reducing costs. “We’d like to position it more as an evolution — we don’t think the mainframe is going to die,” said Stuart McGill ...