Halfway through her first year in MCIT Online, Wu says she’s already considering applying for a product management role. Xunjing Wu was working as a GIS analyst in a global infrastructure company in 2015 when she signed up for her very first computer science course online. With a background in urban planning, she used spatial […]
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Ready for retention: Presenting a unified note-taking experience
Ken Sun, Director of Product Management, Coursera What did you learn in your last course on Coursera? What were the important concepts presented each week? Could you draw one graph the instructor used? If recalling these facts feels tough, you’re not alone. Humans tend to lose 40% of information within the first 24 hours after […]
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‘Agile Programming is Not Dead, Quite the Opposite’
“Agile is not dead, quite the opposite,” argues Alistair Cockburn, one of the co-authors of the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001: Why then, do we read of agile’s death? Three reasons: phony ads, misunderstanding ordinary movement of ideas through society, and looking at the wrong curves… The sales pitch is pretty obvious when you look for it. Ignore…
Facebook Insists No Security ‘Backdoor’ Is Planned for WhatsApp
An anonymous reader shares a report: Billions of people use the messaging tool WhatsApp, which added end-to-end encryption for every form of communication available on its platform back in 2016. This ensures that conversations between users and their contacts — whether they occur via text or voice calls — are private, inaccessible even to the company itself. But several recent posts…
edX and Boston University Questrom School of Business Launch Fully Online MBA
edX is pleased to announce the launch of an online Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University Questrom School of Business. The program is designed specifically for online learners who seek to advance their management careers in today’s global economy, providing a comprehensive, engaging, and integrated experience centered on the themes that drive business in the 21st century. The BU…
YouTube Bans Content ‘Showing Users How To Bypass Secure Computer Systems’
Kody Kinzie from the Null Byte YouTube channel on Tuesday said YouTube banned a video he made about launching fireworks over Wi-Fi for the 4th of July. According to YouTube’s Community Guidelines, you are not allowed to post content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems or steal user credentials and personal data.” Doing so will apparently result in a…
It’s a Match: Essential Skills Mapped to Critical Business Functions
By Kyle Clark, Enterprise Content Strategist Coursera’s Essential Skills Map identifies the skills of tomorrow for key functions, future-proofing your workforce while helping your business keep pace with digital transformation. ———- Technology is rapidly transforming the nature of jobs and skills. Partnering with over 1,900 companies globally through Coursera for Business takes us deep into […]
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Google’s Login Chief: Apple’s Sign-In Button Is Better Than Using Passwords
After Apple announced a single sign-on tool last week, The Verge interviewed Google product management director Mark Risher. Though Google offers its own single sign-on tool, The Verge found him “surprisingly sunny about having a new button to compete with. While the login buttons are relatively simple, they’re much more resistant to common attacks like phishing, making them much stronger than…
36 Days After Christchurch, Terrorist Attack Videos Are Still on Facebook
The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook’s moderators and technology.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43jdbj/christchurch-attack-videos-still-on-facebook-instagram…
Machine Learning Identifies Weapons in the Christchurch Attack Video. We Know, We Tried It
It took 29 minutes for a Facebook user to first report the livestream of the Christchurch terrorist. Now a machine learning system spots weapons in the stream with an over 90 percent confidence rating. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwnzz4/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence-christchurch-attack-video-facebook-amazon-rekognition…