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NEW YORK, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Collective[i]®, a recognized leader in AI-enabled digital sales transformation, today announced that Alfred Aho, Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Columbia University and the 2020 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award Laureate, is confirmed to participate in
Collective[i] Forecast, a series of live, virtual events, that features the world s preeminent leaders and innovators sharing their knowledge about the innovation that is disrupting and transforming how we work and live.
Professor Alfred Aho s work has been instrumental in developing the technology that allows humans to program the software that has transformed how we work and live. From the cars we drive to the cell phones we use, the technology that we rely on couldn t exist without the computer software that powers it. This software, although taken for granted by many, drives not only the present world we live in, but also
How COVID-19 affected children in this year s Kids Count Factbook
PROVIDENCE From housing to mental health, COVID-19 has hurt Rhode Island’s youngest and most vulnerable population.
In some cases, when numbers appear to be trending in a positive direction, it’s because families weren’t getting the services they sorely need.
These were among the compendium of data on the health of children in Rhode Island, compiled every spring by Rhode Island’s Kids Count, a nonprofit child advocacy that belongs to a national network.
The Kids Count 27th Factbook will be released Monday at the annual breakfast, from 9- 10:30 a.m. via Zoom. The 2021 factbook charts improvements and declines in the well-being of Rhode Island’s 203,575 children.
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In the early ‘70s, in the shadow of the civil rights era, Kenneth Chenault often stayed up late talking with other Black students at Bowdoin College in Maine about how to fight for racial equality. Most argued you needed to push from the outside. They wanted to become activists and educators. Chenault was different. He thought it was best to work from inside the corridors of power, recalled former classmate Geoffrey Canada.
“We didn’t think you could knock those doors down,” Canada said.
Chenault did. He went on to run American Express for 17 years, one of just 19 Black chief executives ever at a Fortune 500 company.