By Leah Belsky, Chief Enterprise Officer at Coursera As the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds around the world, it is disrupting the nature of jobs and the skills that underpin them. The World Economic Forum predicts that the core skills required to perform most roles will change by more than 42 percent by 2020, meaning that […]
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Coursera Together: Free online learning during COVID-19
Coursera Together: Free online learning & community resources during COVID-19 As each of us navigate the impact of COVID-19 on our lives, we hope that you can find comfort in the strength of the Coursera community. Know that you’re not alone, and we’re here to help in any way that we can. During this time, […]
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Study Finds High Demand for Go and AR/VR Programmers, While Python Remains Favorite Language
The tech jobs marketplace at Hired.com crunched their data on more than 400,000 interview requests and job offers over the last year to produce their annual “State of Software Engineers” report. Among its surprising insights: software engineers with more than 10 years of experience get 20% fewere interview requests than engineers with 4 to 10 years of experience. Other insights:
Demand for…
A Group of Ex-NSA and Amazon Engineers Are Building a ‘GitHub For Data’
A group of engineers and developers with backgrounds from the National Security Agency, Google, and Amazon Web Services are working on Gretel, an early-stage startup that aims to help developers safely share and collaborate with sensitive data in real time. TechCrunch reports: It’s not as niche of a problem as you might think, said Alex Watson, one of the co-founders. Developers…
What’s new on Coursera for Business – January 2020
By Kyle Clark, Senior Skills Transformation Consultant 2020 is already proving to be an exciting year for skill development on Coursera. Our university and industry partners launched over 60 courses in January – an average of 2 courses per day. Our new courses range in topic from IT automation and feature engineering to visual analytics, […]
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Amazon Wants Trump To Testify in Battle Over $10 Billion Pentagon Contract
Amazon has asked a federal court for permission to get testimony from President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper as part of its ongoing protest over the Defense Department’s handling of a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract, according to a court filing unsealed Monday. From a report: The document also seeks permission to depose former Defense Secretary James Mattis and what…
IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO, Replacing Ginni Rometty
An anonymous reader writes: IBM named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty. Krishna, 57, is currently the head of IBM’s cloud and cognitive software unit and was a principal architect of the company’s purchase of Red Hat, which was completed last year. Rometty, 62, will continue as executive chairman and serve through the end of the…
Energy Consumption at Data Centers Will Become ‘Unsustainable’, Researcher Predicts
“The gigabytes of data we’re using — although invisible — come at a significant cost to the environment,” argues the CBC’s senior technology reporter. “Some experts say it rivals that of the airline industry.” And as more smart devices rely on data to operate (think internet-connected refrigerators or self-driving cars), their electricity demands are set to skyrocket. “We are using an…
Many of Kubernetes 2,000 TODO Comments Appear to Be Forgotten
Kubernetes (originally designed by Google) is a prominent open-source container-orchestration system for cloud computing with over 4.3 million lines of Go source code. Over 700,000 lines of that code are comments. “We’ve been working on a project that surfaces TODO comments in a codebase to help developers do basic project management workflows within that codebase,” reads a new essay on Medium….
Google Execs Debated Getting Out of Cloud Computing Last Year, But Instead Set a Goal of Being a Top-Two Player By 2023
In early 2018, top executives at Alphabet debated whether the company should leave the public cloud business, but eventually set a goal of becoming a top-two player by 2023, according to a report from The Information on Tuesday. From a report: If the company fails to achieve this goal, some staffers reportedly believe that Alphabet could withdraw from the market completely….