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Google ’ s Chief Information Officer is Ben Fried , a role he has occupied since 2008 . As CIO of one of the world ’ s most technologically advanced companies , he has identified machine learning as the most exciting new technology , saying : “ I have teams finding places where machine learning can solve problems that we didn ’ t think computers could solve . That ’ s really exciting . I didn ’ t even think these sorts of things were remotely possible a decade ago .” Fried studied computer science at Columbia University www . gigabitmagazine . com