A once-in-a-generation phenomenon has introduced millions of educated, computer-savvy, middle class Americans to the political process.
Mr. Epstein, an Internet service provider in Putnam County, N.Y., and Mr. Wright, an independent designer of telephone voice response systems, are characteristic of many of the tower advocates: male, highly educated, computer-savvy iconoclasts.
Yet a Wikimedia study in 2011 revealed a fairly uniform picture of the writers behind Wikipedia - the average Wikipedian is a white, educated, computer-savvy man who lives in the US or Europe.
They are going to be people educated in computer science departments in scalable machine learning, data visualization, and related areas.
Fayyaz Ahmed, who was educated a computer engineer has been working as a professional photographer for the last 5 years.
She is bright, college educated, enthusiastic, computer literate and hard-working -- all the qualities employers look for when hiring a new employee.
Third, most participants were educated and computer-savvy; hence the results may not be generalizable to people who are less educated or computer-savvy.
"We have a demand every year in America for 120,000 jobs in computer science, and we're only educating 40,000 computer scientists in the whole country," Mr. Clinton said.
Then you feed that knowledge back, educating the computer about itself.
