Educational institutions are setting up certification programs and new degrees under names like data science, decision sciences and machine learning, which may help ease the shortage.

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Daniel Diermeier is the IBM professor of regulation and competitive practice and professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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D. in applied mathematics, the 50-year-old Berezovsky says he spent 25 years doing research on decision-making theory at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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MarCuba 2012 brought together scientists, decision makers, specialists and stakeholders involved in marine sciences, observation systems, coastal and marine services and technologies, economy and education from 25 countries.

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"I think the decision was made before the prime minister left, " says Zakaria Ahmad, dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University of Malaysia.

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