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August 23, 2005

NY Times on technology skills and careers

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Posted by Jim McGee

Interesting article in this morning's NY Times on computer science education and efforts to develop a richer and deeper perspective on how technology skill connects to other skills and needs inside organizations. It strikes me as another case example of a broader trend to find a new balance between specialization and general skills in organizations:

Edward D. Lazowska, a professor at the University of Washington, points to students like Mr. Michelson as computer science success stories. The real value of the discipline, Mr. Lazowska said, is less in acquiring a skill with technology tools - the usual definition of computer literacy - than in teaching students to manage complexity; to navigate and assess information; to master modeling and abstraction; and to think analytically in terms of algorithms, or step-by-step procedures. [A Techie, Absolutely, and More, NY Times]

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