Patent Commons
The United States granted the first patent to Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont in 1790. Mr. Hopkin’s idea had to do with making potash which in turn was used in making glass and in various industrial processes.Two other major patents granted the same year were related to making candles and milling flour. On January 11, […]
IBM Happenings: December 2004
There was quite a bit of feedback about the IBM Happenings. Thanks to all for that. Several people said they especially liked the "headlines" so they choose to read the details or not. December was another busy month. Here are the announcements made by the company. The complete index of IBM Happenings by year and […]
IBM Happenings: November 2004
Sorry I am a bit late with the IBM Happenings posting for November. I would appreciate any feedback from readers as to whether these news postings are useful. It is not a huge effort to pull them together — but not trivial either. As usual, there was a lot going on at IBM during the […]
Lenovo – 2
From the feedback I have gotten to "ThinkPad Futures", it sounds like a lot of people are happy that the ThinkPad lives on after the Lenovo acquisition. While there is a large community of individual ThinkPad customers out there, most ThinkPad users are employees of the major enterprises of the world. That has been the […]
IT Leadership Academy – 2004
An IBM colleague from years past, Craig Fellenstein, has been helping out with a significant initiative called the IT Leadership Academy. The program is sponsored by the Governor of Connecticut and is designed to bring 180 public High School students together to work on IT related projects during the school year. The participating high schools […]