IT professionals who are going back to school, mentoring a younger person, or the parent of a student with tech-related leanings might do well to read a blog post authored by a Microsoft HR specialist. In it, she outlined three important new majors.
Actually, that description may not do the majors justice; Eugenia Sawa described them as "the top three hottest new majors for a career in technology" on the Microsoft JobsBlog, which is quite an endorsement.
Anyway, the first area Sawa identified is that of data mining, machine learning, AI, and natural language processing. She wrote, "All of these fields help us sift through and organize huge amounts of information or data. When you apply your knowledge in these areas to a challenging problem in the online space, you know that you are working at a scale that is just immense."
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