As researchers produce more and more data to crunch, national labs and university-affiliated supercomputer centers are expanding and building new supercomputers, which need more and more computer scientists with high-performance computing skills to program and operate them.
He lacked the technical skills to program it alone, so instead came up with concepts and consulted technicians to see if they were possible.
Lynda.com, an online education company, reaches more than 4 million people a year with its how-to tutorials in everything from management skills to programming.
OU added a lot of skill to its program with this class.
Mr. Barrett, who lives in Riverdale with his wife and 7-year-old daughter, Emma, said he considered his strongest skill to be programming.
Modeling scenarios on driving simulators is a complex and difficult task for end-users because they do not have the skills necessary to program the scenarios.
Key lessons include the need to develop skills to understand program mechanisms and contexts, recognize multiple models of causality, apply mixed method designs, and ensure the successful scaling up and spread of an intervention.
Just this week, Boeing, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Alcoa announced the Get Skills to Work program that will train at least 100,000 veterans for manufacturing jobs by 2015.
Level design — which may involve a literal "level 1," an area the player can explore, or the next round of a fighting game — will test some skills unrelated to programming.
Learning with the proposed system can contribute to acquiring fundamental skills to understand programs.
These new hires, with the skills to combine programming algorithms and large data sets, became known as quantitative analysts (or "quants").
