There is a kind of irony, too, to all this, because this floor is really the heart of our information technology computer data-processing operations.
In 1962 Perot quit IBM and formed his own company, Electronic Data Systems EDSS), to design, install, and operate computer data-processing systems for clients on a contractual basis.
The relationship between the Wall Street specialists and a law firm appears to work like this: A private equity firm, in a transaction worth tens of millions of dollars, buys a wide range of services used by the law firm, like its accounting, computer data, document processing and title search departments.
Later, Boston firms took the lead in software design, computer architecture, data processing, and biomedical technologies.
Adding to the delay was a decision by the bank to manually review the computer's data processing throughout the week to ensure that the software flaw had been fixed.
Beyond health care, 446,000 government jobs -- many in education -- were added, followed by 142,000 in social services, 67,000 in computer and data processing and 61,000 in finance, insurance and real estate.
An even better bet is the computer and data processing services industry, which is forecast to increase employment of physicists (and many others) substantially ( Figure 2).
So, following the maxim that high growth areas make the best job hunt targets, focusing on the computer and data processing industries looks likely to be a winning strategy.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), computer and data processing services stand out as the fastest growing industry sector in the U.S. The BLS projects that by 2006, the sector will need to fill 2.5 million jobs.
