Why Absolutely Everyone Needs To Be Software Literate

My opinion piece published in Forbes this morning... The average American teenager spends six hours a day texting, 90 minutes a day on Facebook, and more than three hours a day watching TV on the computer – and every interface they experience and every interaction they have is being run by a software application developed by software programmers. Teens aren’t the only ones being influenced by the vision of the geeks. On average, adults spend more than 10 hours a day intentionally interfacing with software applications and even more time [...]

By |2017-12-06T16:55:20-08:00August 14, 2012|Equality|0 Comments

Engineering is the way to bring jobs back to America

We are facing an ongoing threat to America's global economic leadership and increasing the number of engineers in our workforce is one powerful way we can change our destiny as a country.In Silicon Valley we have one engineering job open for every two engineers that are employed - this means it is hard to find enough qualified workers and so companies move jobs offshore to India and China where they graduate many more engineers than we do. Today we simply do not have enough people trained in the "STEM" areas [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:03:08-08:00October 25, 2011|Career Advice|2 Comments
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