DATE: 05.24.2013
POSTED BY: Kyle
On May 20, Palantir received four gold stars at the DI2E Plugfest in recognition of our platform’s demonstrated compliance with the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) standards. The DI2E Framework defines a set of standards that are meant to ensure interoperability between data systems across the Defense Intelligence Community. The DI2E SvcV–4 (the most recent [...]
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DATE: 01.30.2013
POSTED BY: Ashling
Girl Geeks from around the Bay rang in the new year and broke in Palantir’s new event space with Girl Geek Dinner #32, which focused on philanthropy, technology, and the opportunities presented by both for women worldwide. Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, opened the night with her [...]
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DATE: 01.24.2013
POSTED BY: Ashling
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s Palantir Scholarship for Women in Technology! This year, scholarship applicants wrote essays addressing why they were pursuing a technical degree, what can be done to increase the number of women in technical fields, and what ways technology can be used to promote opportunities for women worldwide. The finalists were [...]
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DATE: 11.20.2012
POSTED BY: Ashling
On November 13, Pooja Sankar, CEO of Piazza, an online Q&A platform used by students and teachers, sat down with four women at Palantir to discuss their experiences working in technology. Originally broadcasted live to students in Piazza’s network, the panelists spoke about their roles at Palantir and how they’ve navigated the ups and downs [...]
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A Grameen Foundation Community Knowledge worker speaks with a Ugandan farmer. A piece recently published on both the Scientific American and Fast Company’s CoExist websites highlights our most recent work with the Grameen Foundation. We participated in Hacking for Hunger, a first-of-its-kind hackathon held by the Office of Innovation & Development Alliances at USAID, which [...]
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DATE: 08.02.2012
POSTED BY: Ashling
Palantir donated software to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in support of a four-part investigative series on the global trade and illegal trafficking of human tissue. ICIJ broke the story at the Google Ideas Summit on Illicit Networks on July 17, 2012. The series investigates how human tissue is taken from the dead, [...]
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DATE: 07.18.2012
POSTED BY: Ashling
TED invited Shyam Sankar, Director of Forward Deployed Engineering, to speak at TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Shyam used the opportunity to discuss Human-Computer Symbiosis: the idea that technology should be designed in a way that amplifies human intelligence instead of attempting to replace it. He explained the concept, which is core to the development [...]
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DATE: 07.10.2012
POSTED BY: Ashling
How long would it take you to memorize an entire deck of cards, in order? One hour? Two hours? Three days? Would it be impossible? On a good day, memory champ Nelson Dellis can complete the task in just 35 seconds. Under pressure, his official recorded time is 63 seconds, which was fast enough to [...]
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DATE: 10.26.2011
POSTED BY: Ashling
7th Palantir Government Conference We wish to thank conference attendees for helping to make this year’s GovCon a remarkable event. With nearly a thousand attendees – most of them first-time GovCon-goers – this was a tremendous occasion to showcase our engineering developments, deployment efforts, and the exceptional work we’re contributing across a broad swath of [...]
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