County aims to make Informatics next tech trend

Despite the county’s notable lack of witches and munchkins, Dr. Michael Dunn likened himself to novelist L. Frank Baum when the Anne Arundel Tech Council invited him to speak about the field of informatics earlier this year.

Dean of the Indiana University School of Informatics, Dr. Dunn described his visit as “writing about Oz for all these years and then being asked to visit.”“Anne Arundel did have a concept of informatics working,” he said.

For the past two years, Anne Arundel has been branding itself as the center of the nation’s informatics corridor, stretching from Washington to beyond the outskirts of...