2022 Newsletter Editions

Dr. Donald S. Walker, Lt Col, USAF (ret), Director of Training, Arkansas Center for Data Sciences AT ACDS, WE often characterize our work as something of a “three-legged stool,” one that forms a sturdy balance between the tech needs of Arkansas employers and the skillsets of Arkansas tech talent. The all-important third leg is the […]

IT TAKES A VILLAGE When it comes to data science education, we can’t stop at the students Stephen Addison, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University of Central Arkansas LAST MONTH IN this newsletter, Dr. Karl Schubert of the University of Arkansas spoke about the DART (for “Data Analytics that

IT’S NO COINCIDENCE that Black History Month includes the birthdates of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and that of Frederick Douglass (February 14). Black communities in the U.S. have celebrated those leaders together since the late 19th century. At ACDS, Access and equity are two of our core values, and I know that means we must

Karl Schubert, Ph.D., FIET, Professor of Practice and Associate Director of the Data Science Program for the College of Engineering, the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, University of Arkansas WHAT WOULD YOU do if it was your job—one of your jobs—to create a statewide

RINGING IN THE NEW Welcome to ITArkansas Magazine, 2022 Edition James Morgan, Editor JANUARY MARKS BOTH a New Year and a new issue of ITArkansas Magazine, the guide to “all careers tech” for young up-and-coming tech talent in the Natural State. As a reminder, ITArkansas is a joint project of ACDS, Arkansas Times, and East

GOOD MORNING, AND here’s wishing you a happy and healthy 2022. You know that ACDS exists as a part of Governor Hutchinson’s vision of filling our IT workforce gap with trained Arkansans. Toward that end, in this month’s newsletter we’re introducing Edition 2 of ITARKANSAS Magazine. This publication has something for everybody, but its main