Even if what you do is rocket science, technical and logical faculties are only part of the skills you need for your job. Your success has always been dependent on your soft skills—your understanding of and your ability to collaborate with fellow humans. However, major developments in technology and economy are making soft skills even more vital.
Demand for new professionals with a mix of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ skills in emergent fields such as: behavioral engineering, cognitive computing, NLP etc. is fast-growing. Soft skills are not only needed to help you cope with fellow humans, but are a prerequisite knowledge for solving novel technical ‘hard’ problems.
It is therefore necessary to adapt CS curriculum to the emerging challenges our graduates are going to tackle in their professional lives. This talk draws mainly upon knowledge gained over a couple of years of teaching a popular CS course for developing practical problem-solving skills. It is also based on some professional insights from practical data mining, gamification and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Uri Globus is a CS lecturer (TAU, MTA, IDC) and an entrepreneur.
He is a graduate of the Computers and Games Research Institute in Japan
and a former member of ICTAF, RAD and Wix founding team. Currently he
cultivates joyful productivity with a novel “Network of Doing”.