New York City is always an experience

Reflection – written April 5, 1997 Since I had an early Sunday morning flight to London to attend a meeting of the Global Internet Project and give a talk about the future of the Internet, I decided to take my wife to the city for the weekend. First stop was the Metropolitan Museum of Art. […]

24 Hour a day JavaBeans effort

I met the most engaging, charming, articulate, Chinese gentleman named Professor Ling (second from left). The others from the left are Dr. Shaun Liu (IBM Director of Investments in China), Dr. Jean Chen (manager of Internet projects at IBM China Research Laboratory), and yours truly. Professor Ling founded the first computer science department in China […]

InfoPort Project – Shanghai

On February 24, 1997 I had a very nice visit with Director Xia and his team who are planning an exciting project called InfoPort. InfoPort will bring interesting content and services to the people of Shanghai. Five separate networks will be pulled together into one “port” to provide consistent access.

31 hours to get there, but worth it

Reflection – written February 25, 1997 My second 1997 journey to Asia started with a flight on United Airlines to San Francisco on Saturday morning, February 22. During my stop in San Francisco I checked in for my first ever flight with Air China. It was my second trip to China but the first with […]