Bandwidth Galore (Update)
In a story entitled “Fujitsu Tests Optical WDM Communication Spanning 7,400km at 2.4Tbps”, published by Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., we see some impressive but not unexpected news. In Net Attitude, I talked quite a bit in the chapter called Fast about how we would have “Bandwidth Galore”. I also wrote a 1998 reflection by that […]
Technology and the Push for Simplification
Technology and the Push for Simplification Jan. 30, 2001 “Computers are not quite there yet. And so I think one of the biggest challenges we face is to take a lot of this great technology and put it to work to make the technology itself easier“ – Dr. Irving Wladawsy Berger (VP IBM’S Technology and […]
My first JavaBean application
I have to admit…. I was skeptical but I went ahead and downloaded the BeanMachine. I have to admit… I was really impressed. It couldn’t have been easier. The BeanMachine is really a neat tool for creating Java applets. BeanMachine lets you enrich your web site with multimedia, special effects, smart forms and live data. […]
Web Video
Reflection – written April 22 , 2000 The world is becoming a world of packets. Email, web pages, phone conversations, radio and TV, and video conferencing. Video will soon be thought of as just another data type. We now take good quality graphics and colors on web pages for granted. Soon we will take high […]
Advanced Internet Technology
Our Internet Technology group is involved in a number of areas. We’ve been responsible for developing and demonstrating leading edge IBM technology in a highly visible fashion over the past four years. Projects have included large, very complex web sites that broke new ground for IBM in scalability (The Patent Database is an example of […]