Irving’s Blog

I first met Irving Wladawsky-Berger sometime in 1992. I was impressed with his keen interest in technology and the things I was working on. We have continued as friends and colleagues ever since. Irving has had a distinguished career at IBM including heading up the IT group in IBM Research, getting IBM into the supercomputer […]

Wow!

A search at Google for "Wow" yields more than 20 million matches. A visit to the Wiktionary finds that "wow" means "an indication of excitement or surprise. A typical expression, according to the Wiktionary is "Wow! How do they do that?". If you visit the Danbury Hospital Wellness on Wheels van, I guarantee that you […]

IBM Happenings: April 2005

April was a busy beginning for the second quarter at IBM. The IBM announcements for April are below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. List of Announcements for April 2005 IBM introduces SOA services The new services will assist customers with specific aspects of an SOA including planning, […]

CoolSentry Paging

You would think by now that there would be no pagers in use – it seems like everyone has a mobile phone. In fact, traditional pagers and paging services are on the decline, but there is valuable paging bandwidth that can be used for other purposes — like the CoolSentry program. Today, a technician from […]