Lonnie Emard, Apprenticeship Director THE MORE WE venture into the world of apprenticeships, the more diverse the readership of our ACDS newsletter becomes. For example, we now attract business leaders who’re interested in how apprenticeships can help their companies, candidates wanting to know more about how they can become apprentices, training providers ready to play […]
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EVP and Chief Information Officer, J.B. Hunt IF YOU THINK you know how a trucking company works, think again. At J.B. Hunt—full name J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.—the business of transporting freight from point A to point B is being totally reinvented through data science. And the man charged with leading this transformation is Stuart
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IT’S TIME FOR the ACDS team to get a little well-earned recognition. If you’ve been following Lonnie Emard’s articles in the Apprenticeship Report, you have a pretty good grasp of the overall process. It begins with our contacting prospective Arkansas employers, and over the past 100 days we’ve been focused on creating first an awareness,
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TODAY’S FARM IMPLEMENTS How technology and data help fight the battle against Mother Nature L. Dow Brantley III, President, Brantley Farming Company I AM A third-generation Arkansas farmer, working land located near the community of England, about 30 miles east of Little Rock. My grandfather, Laudies Dow Brantley Sr., was at first a sharecropper who
The Arkansas Academy of Computing is administered by the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. The purpose of the organization is to: As the Academy notes in their introduction of Bill: Bill Yoder leads the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) team
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