2023 Newsletter Editions

MEET YOUR NEW OFFICE COLLEAGUES Robotics as a service is just around the corner Mickey Austin CEO, PeopleShores THE AGE OF Robotics in Arkansas is about to take a giant step forward. My company, PeopleShores PBC, and the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS) are collaborating to prepare cohort participants to provide Robotic Process Automation […]

SLEEPLESS IN AMERICA Whatever happened to EZ zzzzzzzzzz? ARE YOU GETTING enough sleep? What a silly question‚ÄĒof course you‚Äôre not. That‚Äôs why sleep, or, more precisely, the lack of it, has become a major health concern in this country. Last year, the American Heart Association added ‚Äúhealthy sleep‚ÄĚ to its Life‚Äôs Essential 8 list, which

HIRING IN FAST TIMES Now, more than ever, it’s crucial to get it right Charles Morgan CEO, First Orion FOR GOING ON 50 years as a CEO, my top two business tenets have been ‚ÄúHire the best people you can get‚ÄĚ and ‚ÄúKnow what you don‚Äôt know.‚ÄĚ Today those two pieces of advice are more

MEET CHRISTA HINDMAN Age: 24 Hometown: Jacksonville, AR Work-Based-Learning Internship: ACDS MY BACK STORY I’m from Jacksonville and I’ve lived there pretty much all of my life. I attended Pinewood Elementary School and was involved in some of the gifted and talented programs. That gave me a chance to explore unique places in Central Arkansas,

Stephen Addison, Ph.D., Professor of Physics Dean, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics University of Central Arkansas IN THE MIDST of the current Chatbot boom, it’s been hard for a lot of us to fully understand both its importance and its long-range implications. So this month we decided to call on one of this newsletter’s

9 TIPS FOR WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH RECRUITERS Think of them as the bridge between where you are and where you want to be Clint Hankinson, ACDS Director of Marketing IN AN EVER-CHANGING job market, working effectively with talent recruiters can make all the difference in landing your dream tech job. Recruiters often act as the

CHATBOTS THREATEN YOUR WORLD Mine, too‚Äďand here’s what I’m going to do about it Matt Olson CEO, Matmon, Inc DO YOU REMEMBER Rosie, the AI robot from The Jetsons? She did all the chores around the house, and the family could have conversations with her. She listened, and was very helpful with her insights and

WHAT WE USED to call Science Fiction is now part of our everyday life, which is why this month‚Äôs edition of the ACDS Newsletter is chock full of information about Artificial Intelligence‚ÄĒAI, for short. This technology is already impacting decisions about how we work, new efficiencies in discovering medicines, and what tasks we might be

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas РArkansas’s leadership in expanding successful apprenticeship programs was recognized at the 2023 Apprenticeships: Closing the Skills Gap Grantee Convening, March 14-16, in Washington, D.C. hosted by the U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. DOL). ACDS Executive Director Bill Yoder and Apprenticeship Director Lonnie Emard were invited to share Arkansas Center for Data

THE POWER OF STORY Some thoughts on newsletters at our four-year mark James Morgan, Editor, ACDS Newsletter EDITORS, BY DEFINITION, should remain in the background, but this month‚Äôs newsletter is a milestone. We published the first ACDS newsletter four years ago this month‚ÄĒ49 consecutive editions‚ÄĒand I wanted to acknowledge a few people and tell you