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Udacity: Four New Classes!
Technologies change quickly. While savvy companies are quick to adapt to these changes, universities are sometimes slower to react. This discrepancy can lead to a growing gap between the skills graduates have and the skills employers need. So how do you figure out exactly what skills employers are looking for? Our thinking: work with industry leaders to teach those skills!And that’s what we’re doing. We are working with leading academic researchers and collaborating with Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Autodesk, Cadence, and Wolfram to teach knowledge and skills that students will be able to put to use immediately, either in personal projects or as an employee at one of the many companies where these skills are sought after.The classes that are opening for enrollment include: HTML5 Game Development with Colt McAnlis and Peter Lubbers Introduction to Parallel Programming with John Owens and David Luebke Interactive Rendering with Eric Haines Functional Hardware Verificatio…