All Human Progress is Relative
Proto Podcast Show for May 30, 2011 wasn’t live this week, but we’ll be back to normal next week.
Cyber Security Front and Center
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/258976,hacked-pbs-reports-tupac-biggie-alive.aspx
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/10/us-energy-cyber-china-idUSTRE7190XP20110210
Jobs and areas of studies for the future
How will College need to reconfigure itself?
What do the Niger Delta Development Commission of Nigeria, Sony, Lockheed Martin and EMC-RSA have in common? They were or are all currently casualties of an ongoing asymmetrical cyber attack. The Lockheed hack in particular has effected me directly. No more telecommunting for the foreseeable future until the breach is patched and nearly 120,000 new SecureID tokens are re-issued. That’s going to suck for travel this summer. Remember that post about jobs of the future? Better add Cyber Security Engineer to that list.
In my on going series of post about jobs of the future, I have looked into my crystal ball to ponder other emerging career paths of the future. For all you newly credentialed college grads here are some more careers you may need to focus your future studies on.
Quantum Biologist/Bioinfomatics Scientist
Though relatively established as an academic and career track, these fields are still emerging and will only prove more important as advances in medicine continue. In 10-15 years they will enviably merge. At the molecular level and below more and more research is discovering quantum effects. There are many courses offered already across many institutions dealing in the area of Quantum Biology. Our depth of knowledge will continue to require data collection on these biological effects and the computational and analytical capacity to model them. With the advent of quantum computers , with their inherit ability to simulate the world at the quantum mechanical level, a quantum biologist needs the skill set to build these simulations and make sense of them. Quantum Information Scientist will build these quirky tools and Quantum Biologist will utilize these tools to delve deeper into nature and discover new things. Areas of study required: Quantum physics, thermal dynamics, quantum and classical computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, biochemistry, chemistry,biophysics, molecular biology, genetics, ecology, evolution and anatomy. Basically a you’ll need to be Pre-Med student with bachelors degrees in both computer science and theoretical physics. Good Luck.
Current positions available:
Who will hire you?
Next up, what are the course loads going to look like with these future career paths? Stay tuned.
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Graduation Time, Now what? – https://blogs.relativeprogress.com/2011/05/22/jobs-of-the-future/
As we approach yet another graduation season (and I explore the uselessness of my college degree), I have looked into my crystal ball to ponder the jobs of the future. For all you newly credentialed college grads here are some careers your kids (and you will have kids) many need to focus their future studies on.
Quantum Information Scientist –  An emerging information science discipline that studies and builds systems that utilize quantum effects in physics, information theory and computation. It includes theoretical issues in computational models as well as more experimental topics in quantum physics including what can and cannot be done with quantum information. This can apply to all manners scientific disciplines such as biology, systems complexity science and general information processing. One would need to be versed in large array of disciplines such as physics, statistics, computer science, math and other forms of information theory. As microprocessors and other computational components get smaller, the laws of conventional physics don’t apply and quantum effects start to take place. The next realm in computer science will be at the quantum level in both hardware and software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_information_science
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf00101/nsf00101.htm#preface
Who will hire you?
Synthetic Biologist – an emerging area of biological research that combines biological sciences, computer science, chemistry and engineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_biomodeling
Who will hire you?
Data Scientist – A person who can extract information from large datasets and then present something of use to an organization. The skills needed for this vary, but a computer science background would help as well as being strong in math (particularly statistics). A background in graphic design would complement these skills if extracted data needs to take a more visual form.
http://flowingdata.com/2009/06/04/rise-of-the-data-scientist/
http://benfry.com/phd/
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