‘Almost everyone in the workplace will become a data professional’
23 Feb 20213.99k Views
Medb Corcoran, Ireland lead for Accenture Labs, talks about her career journey and why data skills will be critical for businesses going forward.
As the Ireland lead for Accenture Labs, Medb Corcoran oversees a team of AI researchers that seeks to address critical business problems with tools such as machine learning, natural language processing and knowledge representation.
This team is based at The Dock, Accenture’s R&D and innovation centre in Dublin.
Corcoran is also the company’s global responsible AI lead for technology innovation, helping organisations integrate a data-driven assessment of algorithmic fairness into their processes.
19 Feb 2021
Feminists have denounced proposals to honour war heroes who won the Victoria Cross and George Cross with hometown statues because not enough of them are women.
Awarded, often posthumously, for the “most conspicuous bravery, or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy”, each Victoria Cross is struck from bronze taken from captured enemy guns, and it is regarded as the highest military honour in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. So rarely is the medal given, there are just nine living recipients of them worldwide.
The George Cross is considered the VC’s equal in merit, and is awarded for similarly outstanding gallantry not in the face of the enemy, often to civilians. Famously the Queen’s father, George VI, collectively bestowed the honour upon the island of Malta for the heroism of its population while besieged by the Axis powers during the Second World War, and the island nation’s
Bossy: Artificial, intelligent and female
Jenny Kennedy: It doesn t really address one of the main problems, which is the type of work that these devices are brought into the home to do and the most appropriate ways of doing that kind of labor. It s very calculated and algorithmically managed. But it s also about how that kind of wife work is valued in the home, and the way in which we have previously valued or undervalued the people that are doing that work.
In the book, we mention voice assistants used in other contexts. But we re looking specifically at voice assistants in the home. And there s still this very rigid and limited ideal of what the home is, and the roles people play. We still operate on the basis of 2.4 people and assume heteronormative relations between the adult couple. It s that context that makes all these devices really problematic, because they are reenergizing that outdated ideal.
âMy Best Girlfriendâ: Queer Dietrich, on screen and off
Modelling top hats and tuxedos, Marlene Dietrich brought an aura of cabaret decadence to her films of the 1930s, yet it was her off-screen habit of wearing trousers to Hollywood premieres that inflamed the media.
14 December 2020
Morocco (1930)
In the introduction to her groundbreaking study of pioneer female filmmaker Dorothy Arzner, Judith Mayne includes a snapshot that is very definitely not of the director, but that was in her archive at UCLA. The candid snap shows Marlene Dietrich holding a large, extremely grumpy cat that she is regarding adoringly, in the courtyard of Arzner and Marion Morganâs home in Hollywood.