MEET JODI-ANN CLOUGH Age: 34 Hometown: Kingston, Jamaica Apprenticeship: Arvest Bank MY BACK STORY I grew up in Jamaica, lived there for most of my adult life. My family was in the gaming industry, and I worked there growing up. In fact, I‚Äôm still on the board. I like to start out by telling people […]
IT’S GRADUATION TIME again, and that calls for congratulations across the board. After the challenges of COVID, the 2021 school year is finally culminating in our kindergartners being promoted to first graders, our middle school students becoming high schoolers, and our high school grads moving on to opportunities in Higher Ed. I have a personal
Sandra Leiterman, Managing Director, UA Little Rock‚Äôs Trojan Cyber Arena IF THE JOB is to spread the word about cybersecurity‚ÄĒboth its personal dangers and its career opportunities‚ÄĒwho better to head the mission than a teacher? And not just any teacher, but one whose chosen specialty is middle school. ‚ÄúMiddle school is really when they make
I, ALGORITHMHow hidden computations dominate our lives Stephen R. Addison, Ph.D.,Professor of PhysicsDean, College of Natural Sciences and MathematicsUniversity of Central Arkansas IF YOU PERFORM a Google search for the word algorithm, you’ll be presented with many different results, the first of which is a dictionary definition that reads, “…a process or set of rules
MEET HANNAH BAUM Age: 26 Hometown: Lee’s Summit, MO Apprenticeship: Hytrol MY BACK STORY I grew up in Lee’s Summit, which is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. I was homeschooled my whole life. My dad was a programmer. He worked for an insurance company, but he also had his own business on the
Richard Howe, Chairman and CEO, Inuvo WE CONSUMERS ARE strange birds who sometimes don’t even know our own minds. That used to make it hard for marketers to pin us down, but now, with the help of its revolutionary IntentKey technology, Little Rock (and San Jose)-based advertising and Artificial Intelligence company Inuvo can read our
Arkansas COMPUTING HISTORY, Part 1 Inside the UAMS computer room, circa 1968 WHEN COMPUTING WAS YOUNG Arkansas’ technology roots go deeper than you might think John Chamberlin, Past President, Arkansas Academy of Computing THE TECH WORLD moves so fast today that sometimes it’s hard to remember what that world looked like yesterday, much less the
IT‚ÄôS A STRONG reference when your doctor prescribes a medicine and is then able to add, “I take it myself.” Well, here at ACDS, we stand behind our own prescriptions. For going on three years now, we‚Äôve been telling Arkansas employers about the Registered Apprenticeship Program and how it‚Äôs the most efficient staffing strategy in
IF YOU’VE BEEN a regular reader of this column, you know that from the moment of our founding in late 2018, ACDS has made it a priority to build up the number of registered IT apprenticeships in Arkansas. The U.S. Department of Labor invests in these programs across the country, and we quickly learned that
Amy L. Hester, Ph.D., RN, BC Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer HD Nursing, LLC WE ALL KNOW that technology can help transform healthcare, but we sometimes forget that no change happens without a large dose of human passion behind it. In observance of national Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 14-21), we sat down with former