{"id":5202,"date":"2013-04-24T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2025-06-29T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:32:28","slug":"director-testifies-at-congressional-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=5202","title":{"rendered":"Director Testifies in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute\u2019s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, was in Washington, DC, today testifying at a hearing of the <a title=\"House Science Committee\" href=\"https:\/\/science.house.gov\/hearing\/subcommittee-technology-and-subcommittee-research-joint-hearing-next-generation-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Committee on Science, Space and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>. The focus of the hearing was Next Generation Computing and Big Data Analytics. In his <a title=\"testimony\" href=\"..\/reports\/rappa_house_testimony.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testimony<\/a>, Dr. Rappa discussed the role different academic disciplines such as computer science, statistics, and others play in Analytics, <!--more-->the Institute&#8217;s success with the <a title=\"Master of Science in Analytics\" href=\"..\/?page_id=1799\">Master of Science in Analytics<\/a> (MSA) is addressing the severe shortage of skilled data professionals, and the MSA program&#8217;s potential as a model for other universities.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute\u2019s director, Dr. Michael Rappa, was in Washington, DC, today testifying at a hearing of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology in the U.S. House of Representatives. The focus of the hearing was Next Generation Computing and Big Data Analytics. In his testimony, Dr. Rappa discussed the role different academic disciplines such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26006,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/26006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}