His understanding of the internet and his talent for computer programming enabled him to rise fairly quickly for someone who lacked even a high school diploma.
When Mayor Bloomberg asked business leaders about the city's economic prospects, the complaint he said he heard most often was a shortage of top-notch talent in computer science and engineering.
When the young Schürmann tried his hand at programming, it was quickly apparent that he had a talent for computer science.
Facebook has snapped up Msqrd, Apple acquired Faceshift, and we've heard others are also on the hunt for their own tech and talent in computer vision and neural network processing (two cornerstones behind how a lot of these apps work), to built out virtual reality and augmented reality applications, expand their video services, and keep consumers entertained.
Suzanne Moore's latest Guardian column sets out the extent to which British society has demonised and patronised the young: "They have been characterised as overly sexualised, inherently stupid, hooked to crappy talent shows, computer games, screens, lacking in basic skills, lazy, rude and vain.
He displayed an early talent for computers and entrepreneurship.
David Stubbs A Time Team special, but one in which Tony Robinson leans less heavily on his retinue of trowel-wielding experts in waterproof clothing, and more on the talents of computer modellers.
Mr. Ellis was best known for the role he played in the creation of Usenet, but colleagues said that perhaps his strongest talent as a computer scientist was in the field of computer security.
Alongside his activism, Swartz, a prodigious computer talent, helped create the RSS protocol which revolutionised content delivery across the web.
One wing has favored immigration as an engine of entrepreneurial innovation and a means for attracting global talent from Chinese computer programmers to Nigerian nurses.
