Conference Time
Thursday was Venture Capital day at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Monday will be the tenth anniversary celebration of IBM’s alphaWorks program in San Francisco, and Tuesday will be the DEMO Conference in San Diego. The IBM Venture Capital Group facilitates relationships between the company’s vast research and development, […]
IBM Happenings: August 2006
I am a bit late in posting the August "IBM Happenings". The month of August is slow in some parts of the world and at some companies but at IBM it was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives. I am particularly excited about IBM’s growing leadership in […]
Paper Paper Everywhere
Somehow I managed to pull a muscle in my leg. Most likely it was launching back into an aggressive set of exercises after having been away on a trip in Eastern Europe. The doctor thought it would be prudent to get an x-ray of my hip and so there I stood at the window at […]
The Danube
Our journey through the Hapsburg Empire began shortly after we landed in Budapest, Hungary. Budapest occupies both banks of the river Danube — Buda on the west bank and Pest on the east bank. With nearly two million people, it is the eighth largest city in the European Union. The city tour opened our eyes […]
Core Connectors
Greater IBM has made a "call for core connectors". Hmmm. Core connectors? What kind of cores are they that need to be connected? Most of the current IBMers are not old enough to remember "core" memory that was used in mainframes. Core connectors also sounds like something from a Lego parts list. Both of these […]