Terry Sweeney has joined EY's healthcare digital consulting division

Terry Sweeney has joined EY as a partner in Adelaide after stepping down as the CEO of the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre in March.

The Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre, founded in 2018, is a $200 million national organisation that fast-tracks technology and digita...

MIZUHO BANK EXECUTIVES TO TAKE PAY CUTS OVER ATM SYSTEM FAILURE

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• Mizuho Bank executives to take pay cuts over ATM system failure.
• Mizuho Group’s President and Group CEO Tatsufumi Sakai and 10 other executives will take pay cuts.
• Mizuho Bank will recruit executives from IBM Japan ...

MIZHUO BANK ATM FAILURE DUE TO POOR OPERATION & MANAGEMENT

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• Mizhuo Bank ATM failure due to poor operation & management.
• A third-party panel concluded the same on Tuesday.
• The panel consisted of lawyers and system management experts.
• On Feb. 28, its systems were over...

IBM JAPAN LTD. TO INSTALL THE COUNTRY’S FIRST LEADING-EDGE QUANTUM COMPUTER

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• IBM Japan Ltd. to install the country’s first leading-edge quantum computer.
• The quantum computer will be in place in few months, and will be operation by end of year.
• The first machine will be a "gate-model qu...

JAPAN’S IBM CORP. UNIT DVELOP AN AI SUITCASE TO ASSIT BLIND PEOPLE

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• Japan’s IBM Corp. unit develop an AI suitcase to assist blind people.
• A pilot test of a prototype was conducted at an airport in Japan earlier this month.
• The AI suitcase successfully navigated itself to an All Nipp...

UNEMPLOYMENT: THE NEXT BIG CRISIS IN INDIA’S IT SECTOR

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• According to the sources, IBM Corp will be sacking 2,000 employees from India

• The decline in demand and non-performance are the reasons cited by the Indian IT companies

• Cognizant Technology Solutions had previously fired thousands of i...

IBM and Tokyo University are launching the Japanese Quantum Computing Initiative

The Japan-IBM Quantum Partnership will be established by IBM and the University of Tokyo, a broad national partnership structure in which other universities, industry, and the government will participate.

The collaboration will have three lines of engagement: one focusing on the growth ...

Is Cloud Banking Being Threatened?

Regulators are looking at cloud banking apps, especially around resilience, recovery, and concentration of providers. Stephen Brobst, chief technology officer at Teradata, said EU regulators are concerned that the main cloud providers are all American firms — AWS, Microsoft, Google, and per...

Software robots guiding North American country into Intelligence automation, with less stress

Low-key various to big-bang AI emerge: 'Unlike several machine learning comes which will want knowledge scientists, robotic method automation (RPA) is straightforward to deploy.' Artificial intelligence and machine learning roared on the scene in 2014 and 2015, with mega-investments by sc...

Suzanne Sawyer Named Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine announced yesterday the appointment of Suzanne Sawyer as senior vice president, chief marketing and communications officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She will begin her new role on June 24. Sawyer brings more than 30 years of experience to the role. She is currently the chief...