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Moving Beyond Conflict: responsible minerals and the importance of collaborative partnerships - Cassiterite, the ore from which tin is extracted, sifts through the hands of a worker in Rwanda. A team from Intel's Responsible Minerals Program, as well as representatives of other tech firms, visited mineral-rich Rwanda in November 2019 as part of an industry effort to ensure a legal and ethical supply...
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AI in Healthcare: Shedding Light on Some Misperceptions - By Steve Allen, Director, Clinical Systems Segment, Health and Life Sciences at Intel As we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, applying innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare is more critical than ever. Many don’t know how AI functions in healthcare, and its use is sometimes met with fear. Some envision a...
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Innovators call for the USPTO to reinstate access to the patent review process - By Benjamin R. Ostapuk, Vice President, Director of Intellectual Property Legal Group, Intel Today, Intel and several other innovators filed a lawsuit under the Administrative Procedure Act against the United States Patent Office (USPTO) in an effort to overturn policies put in place by the USPTO that are undermining American innovation. ...
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The Nation Has Embraced Telehealth: Now Congress Must Act to Let it Prosper - By Mario Romao, Global Director, Health Policy “The onset of COVID-19 has challenged our Nation and the world to rethink the future of healthcare delivery,” U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Krastios wrote recently, adding that the public and private sectors have a shared commitment to “emerging technologies that make high quality healthcare more accessible for...
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Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced to Address Key Concerns at the ITC - By Vanessa P. Bailey, Global Director of Intellectual Property Policy The US. International Trade Commission (ITC) was established to protect U.S. industry from unfair foreign trade practices. The ITC has tremendous power through its ability to issue a categorical product import ban (“exclusion order”). Over the last several years, the ITC has become a forum...
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PROMOTES Act Is Essential to Giving STEM Access to Diverse Talent and Should be Included in the NDAA - By Barbara Whye, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Vice President, Social Impact and Human Resources Diversity and inclusion are essential to innovation,...
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Intel names Al Thompson to head U.S. Government Relations, Elevate Intel leadership on tech and manufacturing policy - Al Thompson will join Intel as vice president of U.S. Government Relations and assume leadership of Intel’s governmental relations effort at the U.S. state and federal levels. “Intel is committed to leading the critical policy debates shaping the future of technology. Al Thompson’s deep experience in global trade, U.S. supply chain security, and issues related...
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Corporate Purpose: Building a More Diverse, Equitable Future - By Jeff Rittener, Chief Government Affairs Officer and General Manager of Intel’s Governments, Markets and Trade group (GMT) Over the last few months our society has faced an unprecedented global health crisis and a reckoning on race and equality that has illuminated the role each of us must play...
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Diversity and Inclusivity: More Important Now Than Ever - By Dawn Jones, Director of Policy and External Partnerships, Intel The COVID-19 pandemic has caused huge global job loss – a loss that has had an outsized effect on women and people of color. Economists say the pandemic will continue to have an uneven economic impact, with all signs indicating that minorities and women will...
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Scaling Knowledge Graphs & Its Applications in Finance, by Joanne Kim - The birth of the digital economy has propagated the development of a wealth of innovations and an even larger investment in big data. As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, safely accessing or collecting data and then effectively running data...
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