Sound Credit Union and UW Tacoma’s Milgard Center for Business Analytics are joining forces for the forth annual UW FinTech Pitch , giving UW students a chance to experience developing a pitch for a new fintech product, presenting ideas to investors, and discovering what it takes to be a tech entrepreneur. Through the competition, Sound … Read more
Thanks to the many ISSIP ambassadors who participated in person at Prof David Lee’s talk on March in Silicon Valley in March 13th, 2024. Professor Lee shared practical insights gained from growing the Tech4Good lab which involves over 120 undergraduate students each quarter. These students explore user research, UI/UX design, web development, and AI, all … Read more
by Prof. Dr. Salvatore Moccia Happy to be back here and full of energy for the new year. My last newsletter as ISSIP Editor-in-Chief was in December 2019. Now we are in 2024. How has the world changed in (nearly) 15 years? Let’s take a look at a table I prepared – to which I … Read more
By Dr. Christine Ouyang Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm in which data processing and decision-making occur at or near the data source. Let me explain in a simple language. If a centralized data center or cloud is our brain, the edge is our limbs, ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and/or skin. While sophisticated neural … Read more
Please check out ISSIP Upcoming Events link for future speakers and events. Summary of upcoming 2023 events Thanks for participating! Check out recordings and/or slides below. Summary of past 2023 events October 26: Financing AI for a Positive Climate Outcome Panel – AAAI FSS (slides) September 27: Tech for Good – Discovery Summit (Recording), (slides) … Read more
Thanks to all the speakers and those who registered – please see the recording here and the master slides here. Many thanks to our keynote Joanne Wright (IBM VP) for her LinkedIn post after the event! After the keynote, the ISSIP-Business Expert Press partnership was highlighted by sharing the book “Breakthrough: A Growth Revolution” by … Read more
The Forum on Complex Unifiable Systems (FOCUS) of the US National Academy of Engineering is hosting an online event entitled Service Systems Engineering in the Era of Human-Centered AI on Monday October 17, 2022 from 11am-5pm ET. Register online here. For more information about the event please see here. The event will NOT be recorded. … Read more
Volunteer Awards and Recognition ISSIP volunteers are recognized during the twice-a-year Progress/BoD events and may earn digital badges, in some cases. Whether you have just a hour a year or a couple hours every week of your time to donate, becoming an ISSIP volunteer is a great way to build your technical eminence in an … Read more
Press Release (click here) Congratulations to the ISSIP 2022 Excellence in Service Innovation Award program awardees. In the coming months, additional information will be provided, as the contacts are invited to give a presentation on their offering, and the recording will be uploaded to ISSIP Youtube and the slides uploaded to ISSIP Slideshare. Also, special … Read more
Thanks to all those who completed nomination forms for 2022 ISSIP Annual Excellence in Service Innovation Award. The 2022 call for nominations closed on February 28th. The results will be announced at the next Progress and Board of Directors call, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday July 19th at 12noon PST. See previous year recipients here.
