{"614882":{"#nid":"614882","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Colleges are Helping Retool the Labor Force in the Age of AI","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/yaszek\u0022\u003ER\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/utz\u0022\u003Eichard Utz\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;chair of\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was recently quoted in a \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Earticle entitled\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;How Colleges are Helping Retool the Labor Force in the Age of AI.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERichard Utz, chair of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s School of Literature, Media and Communication, holds up the computational media degree as an example. One student applied computing to her passion in digital photography, and also minored in marketing. The multidisciplinary skillset, he says, opens her up to a wide spectrum of in-demand jobs. \u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s the kind of person a company wants to hire,\u0026rdquo; says Utz, so that\u0026rsquo;s the kind of environment universities need to create.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/insights-intelai\/2018\/11\/29\/how-colleges-are-helping-retool-the-labor-force-in-the-age-of-ai\/#57bdce2b4547\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2018-12-03 16:21:33","changed_gmt":"2018-12-03 16:21:33","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Kausik Chakrabarti","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/insights-intelai\/2018\/11\/29\/how-colleges-are-helping-retool-the-labor-force-in-the-age-of-ai\/#57bdce2b4547","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-03T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"404111":{"id":"404111","type":"image","title":"Richard Utz","body":null,"created":"1449252000","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:00:00","changed":"1539181964","gmt_changed":"2018-10-10 14:32:44","alt":"Portrait photo of School of Literature, Media, and Communication Chair Richard Utz","file":{"fid":"75989","name":"s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29255,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/s200_richard_utz_oct_2014.jpg?itok=DUqiN_VU"}}},"media_ids":["404111"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"33431","name":"Richard Utz"},{"id":"10013","name":"computational media"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}