The geeks shall inherit the earth
Posted 12/21/2009
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BIDMC chief information officer John Halamka makes no bones about his childhood.
"I was constantly being called a geek or a nerd," he recalls, and Halamka is still willing to make "fashion statements" of an unusual kind.
But Halamka is a focal point of a New York Times look at how yesterday's geek is today's technology executive and how the United States would be better off if we can convince "cool nerds" to get into computing.
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