by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
In support of President Donald Trump’s American AI Initiative, the Department of Defense has nearly tripled its AI-related budget request for Fiscal 2020. But questions remain if the money to be spent is really going into AI-related research. Chris Cornillie filed...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | AI, Government
Estonia wants to clear its backlog of small claims court cases. Might an AI judge do the trick? The Eastern European country has asked its Chief Data Officer, Ott Velsberg, to bring AI into the justice system. Eric Niiler tells us more but Estonia’s AI-related legal...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | AI, Government
When it comes to important life-or-death stuff, people just don’t want to trust a purely AI approach. Saying that the AI was developed by the government only makes the trust problem worse. John Breeden II filed this report in Nextgov: These days, the old “Trust us,...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Government
The advent of new technologies and the accelerating pace of change is leading to greater privatization of data storage. Older, less secure government data centers may not be long for this earth, says a Gartner report. Mary Scott Nabers explains why government data...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | AI, Government
General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has criticized tech giant Google for cooperating with China on artificial intelligence development. Dunford added that Google is facilitating Chinese access to technology that may put US forces at a...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | CDO Insider
Duke University will pay the US government $122.5 million to settle fraud charges after it was established that Duke researchers submitted false data to the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency. The false data were used to justify 30...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | CDO Insider
Is a three-year tenure sufficient time for a CDO to transform their organization? Charles Holive, managing director of SiSense Strategy Consulting, believes so. Holive explains why in this commentary published in Information Week: A CDO’s most important job is...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | CDO Insider
At least half of all organizations surveyed by data firms Talend and TDWI say that their main cloud data management challenge is preserving the integrity, availability, and security of their data. Timothy King filed this report in Data Management Solutions Review: The...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | CDO Insider
In some ways Facebook is a marvel of data management. In other ways… Facebook’s year-long string of data management and privacy scandals continues with the latest report that the social media company has been storing user passwords in plain text for years. The...
by CDO Review Staff | Mar 28, 2019 | CDO Insider
Robert Kastelitz, Chief Information Officer of the Denver International Airport, has been suspended from his job and placed on paid leave since February 27. Kastelitz has been given no further information except that he is under investigation. Reporter Jon Murray...
