Crossing the bridge to employment just a little sooner Lonnie Emard THE ARKANSAS CODING Academy (ArCA) at the University of Central Arkansas has been holding tech boot camps for eight years, during which time candidates have received quality training from industry professionals, built a capstone project to demonstrate their proficiency, been awarded a certificate […]
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MY WIFE AND I moved to Arkansas for the third time six years ago, and every time we’ve landed here, I’ve been more and more—and more—impressed with the energy and effectiveness of this state’s investment in, and focus on, workforce development. I’m especially getting an up-close look at that energy and focus this time around.
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Don’t answer until you’ve read the following Stephen Addison TODAY WE HAVE a number of companies—Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple—that are considered IT monopolies, and a lot of people think their activities should be restricted or even that they should be broken up. But whenever anybody suggests breaking up IT monopolies, I begin to
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IN TODAY’S WORLD, there’s no more valuable aspect of technology than cybersecurity. Whether you’re running a business or running for office, the sanctity of your innermost secrets—whether data, documents, or internal communications—is of supreme importance. Protecting your information from hackers of all stripes and purposes was hard enough—and now A.I. has crashed the party. We
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WE LAST SPOKE with Kristopher Adams in his capacity as director of the Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit, which he ran for the past couple of years. Then last month came news of an exciting new program called ARise—short for Arkansas Innovators, Startups, and Entrepreneurs—with Kris Adams as Program Manager. Billed as a “fresh and expanded
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You can go a long, long way with these two skills in your pocket   Clint Hankinson   THE LAUNDRY LIST is long and overwhelming: Earn a degree from the right school. Create a stellar resume. Move to the best city. Learn public speaking. And on and on. Experts will tell you a half a
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THERE ARE TIMES when it’s okay to mix metaphors, and perhaps step out in faith a bit. Today is one of those days. It was just a year ago that most of us were looking at A.I. like it could be the Flirting Spy who offers assistance while actually wanting to control us. The word
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Could A.I. be used to write another “Margaritaville”? And other inquiries Introduction by Matt Olson ¬† IN THE RELATIVELY short time that A.I. has been a “real thing,” some of us have gotten into it more than others. Whichever category you fall into, this initial episode of “A.I. in The Rock” video should provide ample
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Creativity At Every Turn Of the new projects on Apprenticely’s plate, fresh thinking is the common denominator ¬† Lonnie Emard ¬† THE WONDERFUL THING about our work at Apprenticely is that we’re just facilitating the efforts of others to do what they might have needed to do anyway. At the end of the day, what
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BENTONVILLE BIKE FEST 2024 may have been cut short because of the tornado, but that apparently hasn’t dampened anyone’s spirit or enthusiasm for cycling in the city that proudly touts itself as the Mountain Biking Capital of the World‚ĄĘ, complete with Trademark symbol! For our Welcome to Summer issue, we touched base with Visit Bentonville’s
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