A Shortage of Cybersecurity Talent – and a Solution
The global shortage of cybersecurity professionals is nearly 3 million. In other words, we could meet the global cybersecurity workforce shortage if all the people in Arkansas earned their computer science degrees, put on their…
What Causes Gas Price Fluctuation?
A few months ago, I was driving with my wife, and she and I were deep into a discussion. I pulled into the gas station, went into the store and paid $25 for gas,…
CHINA CATCHES UP: How did China acquire so much technology so quickly?
Here’s how it usually works: HUGE MARKET OPPORTUNITY Companies succumb to the “Give me the technology or you will miss the 1.3 billion people marketplace” threat. LET’S COOPERATE We will work with you in a Joint…
What can you do with a degree in Exercise and Movement Science?
Last month, I reached out to a fellow professional on Twitter who was bashing the field of exercise science for having “no career paths outside of Strength Training/Personal Training”. That’s outdated language. After a few…
U.S. Immigration Debate – A Historical Perspective
Immigration has dominated the recent news cycle with images from our southern border of patrol agents—acting on the zero-tolerance policies of the Trump administration—separating parents and their children. The Supreme Court has recently ruled in…
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Occupational Therapy and Mental Health?
When I first became an occupational therapist, friends, family members, and patients asked me questions to construct their understanding of occupational therapy. Do…
Careers Need Disaster Recovery Plans Too
An important component of any Information Technology (IT) organization within…
Higher Education Is Not a Commodity
Teaching has changed over the eighteen years I’ve been doing…
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Leadership Begins with Mission
Leadership begins with Mission. I used to scoff at that idea. “The Mission is just a bunch of pretty words,” I used to think. “It has nothing to do with the day-to-day.” My view now is precisely the opposite. An organization’s mission, provided it is…
The Web Turns 30 Today: Time to Do Some Adulting
The World-Wide Web turns thirty years old today. Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist and computer scientist, devised a new way to access the Internet on March 12, 1989, that relied on hyperlinks to enable people to connect documents of information to each other and visit…
Cats, Guacamole, and New Recipes for Cyber Attack
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Google demonstrated how machine learning algorithms that use neural networks may be fooled to give erroneous results. By targeting these algorithms with inputs specifically tuned to trick them, hackers could seize upon yet another way to compromise computer…