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4 minute read The organizers of the Social Media Baltimore (SoMeBa) meetup are brave. When the instinctual human response to artificial intelligence is fear and anxiety (“The robots are taking over! They’re coming for our jobs!”), these folks sought more information. They asked: 

April’s patient wait for “back to normal” gave way to June’s acceptance of a new normal and preparation for the next normal. The latest PwC CFO Pulse Survey finds 330 U.S. finance leaders taking a “multi-pronged approach” to rebuilding and even growing revenue. 

Digital transformation and customer experience investments are among those least likely to be cut because they are essential to survival and future growth.

4 minute read It’s 2018. Not being able to visualize whether an armchair will ruin the feng shui of your living room before you purchase it is simply unacceptable. For this reason, and a few others, the innovators at Amazon have released AR View, the company’s new augmented reality shopping experience.

Originally published on MSDN Magazine. Microsoft has been pushing hard at mixed reality (MR) development since it introduced HoloLens in 2014, and at the Build 2018 conference in May, it provided a wealth of great insight into new features in the Unity development environment for MR, as well as UI design best practices. In this…

4 minute read If you’ve spent any time in our Twitter-verse lately, this won’t come as a surprise to you: We’re hiring! And like everything we undertake, Mind Over Machines puts our own unique spin on the process.

Every time you Google something, you’re benefiting from web scraping, the automated process of extracting data from websites. Looking for the best airfare? Cheapest hotel? Yep, many of those price trackers that make your vacation affordable run on web scraping. But Priceline and Kayak don’t let you peer behind the coding curtain.

3 minute read The good news: The online education company was revolutionizing the industry and growing like gangbusters, providing a virtual education experience to thousands of students across the country.

Twice a year, the entire Mind Over Machines team gathers to discuss the state of our union. We call these biannual summits our AllMINDs meetings. At the most recent one, I spoke about the importance of transparency, one of our organizational pillars. These 3 concepts are central to who we are: Transparent, Human-Centric, Data-Informed. So,…

14 minute read Jody Giles is the Chief Information Officer at Under Armour and Loyola University of Maryland Sellinger School of Business Lattanze Executive of the Year for 2013. Jody has made his mark as a strong leader who instinctively understands the specific ways that technology supports business goals, and he has a contagious excitement…

The future of AI is here — and it’s more critical than ever that women are a part of the AI journey! The Women Who AI Summit 2023 provided some fascinating insights into what lies ahead for Artificial Intelligence, women’s involvement in the growth of AI, and how AI is impacting our life and business.…