By David Perlmutt, Charlotte Observer
He’d heard of computers by the time he graduated from high school in 1978 in his native Anhui Province in eastern China. But never did Yi Deng actually see one until college, when he became a student in a new field called computer science at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. More than three decades later, Deng is dean of UNC Charlotte’s respected College of Computing and Informatics, charged with overseeing research and new degrees that are “deeply imbedded and relevant to industries in the Charlotte region.” “We are facing a tsunami of data every day,” Deng said. “Data is critically important not only to the competitiveness, but also the survival of every industry we have here. But we have a severe shortage of talent that can master this kind of data. We need to be able to train more talent to transfer data into knowledge and insights, and use those insights to run businesses more effectively.”
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/12/30/1942673/teaching-talent-to-deal-with-tsunami.html
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