The tech revolution could change (or erase) your job by 2020

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Computerworld Emerging Technologies Jan 27, 2016 The tech revolution could change (or erase) your job by 2020 The Fourth Industrial Revolution is under way and while it could lead to the loss of more than 7 million jobs over the next few years, it will add jobs in areas like computer science, math and engineering. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Ta-ta to passwords and PINs; faces and fingerprints to rule the future • The North Face sees A.I. as a perfect fit (+ video) • Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer and Turing award winner, dies at 88 • A.I. is coming to factories as IBM works with IoT startup Wi-Next • U.S. military wants to create cyborg soldiers • New 'moonshot challenge' at Harvard aims for giant leap in A.I. • When big data gets too big, this machine-learning algorithm may be the answer White Paper: IBM Corporation Agile Development: Why requirements matter Find out how requirements management can bring significant value to agile development the characteristics of an effective requirements management approach to develop complex products and systems and regulated information technology. Read More ▶ Ta-ta to passwords and PINs; faces and fingerprints to rule the future Biometric security technology is gaining market share over traditional passcode methods. Facial recognition will be a $450 million market by 2019 and fingerprint readers will reach $2.6 billion by 2020. Read More ▶ The North Face sees A.I. as a perfect fit (+ video) The North Face wants its customers to get the perfect jacket for whatever they're doing, and it's using Artificial Intelligence to make that happen. Read More ▶ Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer and Turing award winner, dies at 88 Marvin Minsky, a professor emeritus at MIT who pioneered the exploration of the mind and its replication in a machine, died Sunday from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 88, according to MIT Media Lab. Read More ▶ A.I. is coming to factories as IBM works with IoT startup Wi-Next Internet of Things startup Wi-Next will add IBM analytics to its systems for industrial quality control and predictive maintenance. Read More ▶ U.S. military wants to create cyborg soldiers The U.S. military is working to create a chip that can be implanted in a soldier's brain to connect it directly to computers that can deliver data on an enemy's position, maps and battle instructions. Read More ▶ New 'moonshot challenge' at Harvard aims for giant leap in A.I. Humanity has big hopes for artificial intelligence, but in reality machines have a long way to go to catch up with the human brain. Enter Harvard University, which has just won a $28 million grant to change all that. Read More ▶ When big data gets too big, this machine-learning algorithm may be the answer Big data may hold a world of untapped potential, but what happens when your data set is bigger than your processing power can handle? A new algorithm that taps quantum computing may be able to help. Read More ▶ White Paper: IBM Corporation From IT Inertia to IOT Innovation Get a copy of the recent VDC Research report and learn how to go "From IT Inertia to IoT Innovation". Read More ▶ IT Careers 2016: What's important to IT professionals? Check out our January Digital Magazine, which features results from Computerworld's IT Careers 2016 survey. We polled more than 200 IT professionals to learn their top concerns, what's most important to them in their jobs and what would entice them to switch jobs. The magazine also includes News Analysis, Opinions and Shark Tank -- all free for download with registration. View the magazine here ▶ Subscribe to Computerworld Daily News Sign up for our popular, twice-daily tech news newsletter. You'll get Computerworld's up-to-the-minute top stories of the day, both first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon (ET). We deliver breaking news on topics like the latest security threats and the newest mobile devices, in-depth features about enterprise technologies and IT careers, and authoritative analyses of moves made by tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and HP. Sign up now ▶ Computerworld Job Board Search multiple listings now and get new job alerts as they are posted. Check them out now ▶

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