2021 Newsletter Editions

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Director’s Chair: May 2021

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

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This Month’s Q&A: May 2021

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

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Guest Column: May 2021

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

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Guest Column: April 2021

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

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Director’s Chair: April 2021

IT’S 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’ve been telling Arkansas employers about the Registered Apprenticeship Program and how it’s the most efficient staffing strategy in

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Director’s Chair: March 2021

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

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