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Stephanie Kanowitz
Contributor, Route Fifty
Stephanie Kanowitz is a freelance writer based in northern Virginia.
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT for State and Local Agencies? Not so Fast.
Tasks that can benefit from automation such as software development, traffic management or rote tasks are good candidates for ChatGPT, but those that need more subjectivity still require human intervention, experts say.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
Modernization
Army tests smart-city communication tools
The test involved a combination of ARL-developed IoT architecture and commercially available smart-city hardware and software.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
Digital Government
CIO Council: Get on the same platform
The CIO Council wants agencies to modernize using shared cloud-supported solutions and hosted APIs.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
Digital Government
All the twitter about the Mars Phoenix lander
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory chose Twitter to give people up-to-the-minute information about the Mars exploratory spacecraft.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
Digital Government
Letter: Security rules are only as good as those who obey them
"Gadgets that don’t play by the rules" is a good article on the challenges of adapting to agency responses to the rapidly changing technology landscape, but I have to ask about your comment in the sidebar that states, "Information technology managers...can buy some time by using common sense rules until they can develop a broader strategy." With all due respect, the alarm went off at the announcement of the Veterans Affairs Department breach.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
People
Wireless forum hires consulting CEO
The Software Defined Radio Forum, a nonprofit international industry association for reconfigurable wireless technology, has retained industry veteran Lee Pucker on a two-year contract to provide chief executive officer services in a new consulting position reporting to the forum’s board of directors.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
People
PSC names new executive director
David Moses has joined the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) as executive director.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
Digital Government
Letter: Voting systems get short shrift
The article titled "Voting under a cloud of suspicion" does not go far enough to detail the clear benefits of electronic voting systems or the technological evolution of voting systems in the past 100-plus years. The simple fact is that electronic voting systems provide the same or greater level of auditability. Rather than simply getting rid of the new technology, the question should be: How do we build the regulatory and administrative procedures around this new technology?
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
People
FAS gets new chief of staff
Air Force veteran and former White House aide Bruce Caughman will be chief of staff at the Federal Acquisition Service, FAS Commissioner James Williams announced Sept. 6.
- By Stephanie Kanowitz
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