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Generative AI is earning good grades in education

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As Nelson Mandela opined, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Teachers and access to education play a crucial role in our future. Teachers educate the next generation by sharing knowledge, fostering critical thinking skills, managing parents, and developing children.

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Empowering cyber resilience in education: Three strategies for the future

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Those of us with the privilege to work in education have an opportunity to shape the next generation to be more cyberaware and make our digital world a safer place. The challenges coming our way in the future will best be met by a population that is informed, aware, and innately invested in cyber safety. But people need to be informed.

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Bud Financial helps banks and their customers make more informed decisions using AI with DataStax and Google Cloud

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By Jude Sheeran, EMEA managing director at DataStax When making financial decisions, businesses and consumers benefit from access to accurate, timely, and complete information. Most of his international career has focused on digital technology and innovation, higher education and research.

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Academic institutions are already losing information and may not realise it

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For example, academic institutions must comply with strict guidelines for the retention of research data for anywhere from ten to thirty years. With decades or even centuries of information to steward, how can academic institutions preserve this content for future generations? Information may be degrading because of how it is stored.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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For the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), effecting change for women working in IT is a holistic endeavor. But the education system isn’t the only — or biggest — problem in the tech pipeline. We like to make the distinction that it’s about fixing systems, not fixing women,” says Ashcraft.

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4 ways higher ed can close the tech industry’s gender gap

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What is even more disheartening is that while a healthy number of young girls and women enroll and thrive in early education STEM programs, this enthusiasm and drive seems to wane at the college and university levels, where women account for just 16% of those who earned a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

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Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration. “The

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