Articles by Brian T. Horowitz
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5 Free Resources for Tech Learning Include AWS, Coursera, More
For technologists who want to learn new professional skills, there are plenty of free resources online. But which resources are free, and which are most effective at teaching you those new skills… -
5 Training Programs for Unemployed Technologists
If you’re looking for a job and interested in learning valuable tech skills during your hunt, several programs around the country can help. States are working with educational partners like Cours… -
4 Programs Reskilling Underrepresented Technologists
When people switch jobs to pursue a technology career, it takes the right type of program to help them with reskilling. The tech industry is working on diversifying its workforce, and offers lots… -
Becoming a CISO: 5 Things You Need to Learn for Peak Effectiveness
In many organizations, it is the chief information security officer (CISO) who oversees efforts to fight threats such as data breaches, ransomware and phishing. In fact, companies with a CISO or… -
How to Approach Technology From a Non-Computing Background
If you’re a professional in another field who’s interested in a career as a technologist, we have good news for you: It’s very possible to plunge into learning the technology specialization of yo… -
How 3 Tech Students Are Navigating COVID-19 Disruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for tech students in 2020, bringing changes in how they learn. In parts of the United States, some students are resuming some forms of in-person learning, w… -
COBOL Comeback: What You Need to Know About This Old Language
COBOL (“Common Business-Oriented Language”) has been around for more than 60 years, but it has recently been in demand due to some government agency needs. In the most prominent example, software… -
Tech Career Fairs Are Adapting to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Face-to-face networking is an important part of the job-hunting process, but the social-distancing measures of the COVID-19 pandemic have halted many in-person events. Instead, virtual career fai… -
How Supercomputing Can Deliver Key COVID-19 Research
Supercomputing provides a ton of computing power that data scientists have put to work during the COVID-19 pandemic to research new treatments and provide models on how to trace contacts. Data mo… -
COVID-19 May Change How Technology Students Learn
The outbreak of COVID-19 (followed by “social distancing” for much of the country) has been an adjustment for the entire business community, as well as academia. Students who are learning tech sk…