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USA Today
Google is launching a tech lab in Oakland, California, to mentor the next generation of African-American and Latino computer scientists.
The Internet giant is working with MIT Media Lab on the Code Next lab, according to an email obtained by USA TODAY. Code Next is slated to officially open in October.
The lab, which has already run a pilot program, will focus on educating young people in Oakland in the educational and career possibilities that computer science and nearby Silicon Valley offer, an Oakland Unified School District official said.
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The New York Times
The United States Department of Labor sued Palantir Technologies, a prominent data analytics start-up, claiming systemic discrimination against Asian job applicants. The move again raises questions about diversity in Silicon Valley. In its suit, filed on Sept. 26, the Labor Department claimed that Palantir's hiring processes for software engineering positions placed Asians at a disadvantage.
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Black Enterprise
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and Google have joined forces to launch Code Success @ NSBE. The program is year-round and offers college students, who are also members of NSBE, coding boot camps led by expert instructors in the field, with emphasis on JavaScript, JAVA, Python, and Ruby coding languages; CS workshops at NSBE's 2017 Annual Convention; and award competitions that encourage students to utilize the skills they have learned to develop innovative technology.
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The Wall Street Journal
The technology industry is borrowing a football tactic to try to recruit more women.
Since last year, companies including Facebook Inc. and Pinterest Inc. began implementing the Rooney Rule, developed by the National Football League to get more diversity in its coaching ranks. President Barack Obama cited it last year as a tool tech companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are using.
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San Francisco Chronicle
She stood on a stage that was assembled by a team of young women, who set up speakers, rigged up microphones, ran sound checks and connected computers.
In the audience were members of all-female bands, female sound engineers and officials at Dolby Laboratories. As Terri Winston began to speak, a woman checked the audio levels on an iPad in the front row.
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Forbes
As the leader of a global cloud company running mission-critical applications globally for over 4,500 clients and their more than 45 million users, I, like most executives, spend a lot of time thinking about people and the workforce.
At our size, and with the criticality of the HCM suite of applications we provide, there are only a few other businesses in the cloud developing the talent that I need.
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Fortune
Grubhub, which owns Seamless, is in the midst of a tough fight for dominance in the crowded and competitive food delivery business. Yet the company has at least one secret weapon: A workforce that is almost entirely gender-balanced.
Depending on which research you consult, the executive teams of the largest U.S. public companies are composed of between 10 percent and 17 percent women.
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Silicon Valley Business Journal
For Rachel Chalmers, diversity is about the bottom line. "Organizations that don't throw more than half of human potential on the floor during the hiring process will outperform organizations that do," said the vice president of Unitive, a company that sells an automated platform designed to streamline the hiring process while eliminating bias.
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Tech Target
A new platform is allowing technology companies to recruit and hire more diverse talent, addressing a long-standing issue in the industry.
Door of Clubs, based in Boston, launched a "Diverse Talent Identification Platform'' late last month, which includes an online dashboard for users to search, identify and engage with, for example, members of college and university clubs for women, African-Americans, Hispanics and gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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Entrepreneur via Fox News
What does it take to become an agent of change? To be a role model for others?
It starts by seeing a condition that must be changed, then feeling empowered and motivated to take action. In the case of diversity in the workplace, the evidence and conditions for action are abundantly clear — especially in the technology industry.
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Inverse
Approximately 8 of the 319 million people in the United States read the Wall Street Journal, about 2 percent of the population. If you look at the language — standardized English — being fed into many natural language processing units, it's based on the language of that 2 percent. And many machines literally use the venerable, business-focused newspaper to better understand the English language.
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