Sentences with phrase «of being a human in»

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Diane Gherson, IBM senior vice president of human resources, said the company's «first priority has been to identify and engage IBMers who may be affected, in order to provide any assistance they need,» according to a memo IBM sent to Fortune.

Systems are very important, however, the first thing we would do when taking over a business would be to understand its Human Capital - we need to know what type of people we have in the organization.

Communicating and expressing opinions can cause tremendous success in human resource management and this is one of the purposes team buildings have.

In those kinds of use cases, I think we're unlocking the power of what it means to be human.

Venter, who is one of the first people to sequence the human genome, co-founded the company in effort to discover early genetic markers for a variety of disorders.

When Abraham Maslow introduced us to his «Hierarchy of Needs,» he illustrated that humans need to be validated, feel safe, and be acknowledged in order to reach their potential.

Such contrasts can be seen when looking at the steady tattoo of allegations concerning mass atrocities leveled at Qaddafi of Libya (but after his demise never confirmed), compared to the almost complete failure to cover the uprising in Saudi Arabia — or ongoing human rights outrages there.

Sounding more authoritative means finding that deeper register in your voice and avoiding the human tic to «upspeak» at the end of sentences when you're unsure of something.

Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in the nature of human beings and their capacity to wage war on one another.

I've heard it said that the thing that separates humans from the other great apes (beyond opposable thumbs and better haircuts) is our capacity to delay near - term gratification in pursuit of a superior downstream payoff.

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

In other words, you can't be an ideal version of yourself if you don't have enough food and money to pay the bills, or enough love and esteem to feel good about your value as a human being.

It's human nature to want to help people, but what a lot of us don't realize is that when we jump in with advice or a solution, we're shutting the other person down and destroying trust.

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced yesterday that it was presenting its prestigious 2017 Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to a pair of National Cancer Institute researchers, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, who created a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus, or HPV, from taking hold in the body.

Alex Miller, the global head of content at VICE Media, said in a statement that its readers «care deeply about freedom of speech and human rights» and that's why the company decided to launch the campaign for Rasool's release.

In this talk, «the online humorist offers a list of simple — and often brutally honest — questions that will help you answer the ultimate question, «Am I human?»»

«I read this memoir when I was in my 20s, and to this day it remains one of the most powerful human survival stories I have read,» she raves.»

The human body was simply not capable of running one mile in less than four minutes.

There are plenty of networks and sensors in the world, says Martin, but while they detect the presence of humans, they don't recognize individual identities.

The company first blamed one of its human safety drivers, before it was uncovered in February that the problem was actually with the autonomous system itself.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign of what's to come in the field of AI.

«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

It also solidified my belief in how important Human Capital is to the success of an organization.

After several years of research, in 2011 De Brouwer launched Scanadu, a start - up he believes can be instrumental in solving one of modern health care's major flaws: that humans rely too heavily on the expertise of doctors and not nearly enough on data.

«Whenever your human capital is tied up in one particular industry, it may make sense to diversify your investment capital outside of that industry, just because of the amount of risk associated with that.»

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

Facebook controls what users see in two fundamental ways: Its news - feed filtering algorithm decides how to rank various kinds of content to make the feed more appealing, and a team of human beings flags and / or removes posts when they appear to be offensive or disturbing.

«These engines are trained from hundreds of thousands of pieces of human translated content and are able to mimic the fluidity of expressions found in those human translations, including when there is colloquialism involved.

In July 2015, a photo was posted by Humans of New York, a popular Big Apple - centric blog.

On a somber human note, the storm is already being cited for some 20 fatalities — 10 of them in New York City — and officials fear that number may rise.

First, the encouraging news: A record 86 % of U.S. employees say they are satisfied in their current jobs, the highest percentage since 2004, reports the Society for Human Resource Management.

And later, after encountering a large truck parked in the middle of a side, a human driver was forced to take over.

GUPTA: We were very interested in where we could take the intersection of machine learning and human behavior, which over the years evolved into emotional AI.

That, he said Tuesday, is much of the reason he founded SpaceX: After humans successfully landed on the moon in the late 60s and early 70s, progress stalled out.

Chris Brogan, founder and chief executive of Human Business Works, a business - training company in Portland, Maine, is one example, says Smith.

It's about making progress toward your goals consistently and deliberately, in a way that works with our human biology, allowing for proper refueling and consolidation of knowledge.»

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

Psychological experiments are great resources for understanding certain patterns of human behavior in the workplace.

A lot of graduates are coming out of school with little knowledge of cuisine or the human palette as it pertains to tastes not covered in mac and cheese or $ 1 pizza.

«Part of it is the nature of working with creative people that are looking for an outlet to express it not just in their work, but as a way of showing affection for their co-workers and having fun,» explains Bluebeam's Chief Human Capital Officer, Tracy Heverly, about the tradition.

Originally written in 1951, Alan W. Watts» thoughts about how to resolve, once and for all, the twin human epidemic of insecurity and anxiety are particularly relevant as technology forces humanity to move faster and faster.

A former health care investment analyst with a degree in biology from Yale University and current CEO of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries of the genome and what it can reveal about the human body.

Sometimes in can be difficult to be human, considering so many of us work in a mostly virtual world.

Rodriguez: It was risky in this sense: You'd seen «Planet of the Apes,» but that's an ape, we were making for the first time a really human face.

Sorrell then referenced a speech given by WPP's third biggest client — and the biggest ad spender in the world — P&G's marketing boss Marc Pritchard, who said Google and Facebook were not doing enough to meet advertiser demands around measurement, brand safety, and viewability (the measure of whether an online ad had the ability to be seen by a human).

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

This is exactly the kind of thing that people sounded the alarm about in recent years — that robots are going to displace human workers.

In theory, they can then mimic whatever the human in front of them is doing — over and over agaiIn theory, they can then mimic whatever the human in front of them is doing — over and over agaiin front of them is doing — over and over again.

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»