Artificial Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand

AI Then and Now

In my school days way back in nineties, I do remember every one, be it journalists, engineering managers or writers were equating computer science to computer programming. Do you know COBOL? do you know C++? Programming became synonymous with computer engineering. Sitting in a back bench in class, I was wondering where I am? what am I doing here? I was told before admission, computers do miracles. So, I used to read books on Physics, Artificial Intelligence , Automata theory, Operation Research, Graph Analysis. When I joined industry, I was told to write code for inventory reporting. None of the theory being used in industry. Thanks to Big Data, low cost memory chips, CUDA; finally artificial intelligence going to play an important role in business applications.

Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) know-how has exploded in recent years, and major technology firms are turning to the ranks of academia to find that expertise. This demand is being driven by the falling cost of computing power and the need for methods of analyzing the mountains of data being generated every day. Amazon, for example, is advertising for more than 50 AI positions in the U.S. and Europe and is searching for doctorate-holders to fill them. The quest for talent often means poaching academia’s best and brightest. The University of Washington (UW), for example, recently lost seven AI-related professors to Google. “Virtually every professor at the UW computer science department has been called many…