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, […]

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 […]

[email protected]

Today I received two letters in the mail from medical practices in Connecticut. They were both routine, practice announcements about physician changes. What jumped out at me from both letters was that neither had an email address or a web site url. Here we are in the second half of the first decade of the […]

Healthcare and IBM

The Intellectual Property briefing by IBM on May 2 in Greenwich was extremely interesting and I hated to leave a bit early but there was an overlap with another briefing down the road in Stamford, Connecticut — this one about healthcare. IBM’s healthcare and life sciences business is huge with 4,000 employees and revenues in […]

Demos and Podcast From Rome

April 8, 2006 IBM had some demonstrations set up in the breakout areas at the Auditorium Parco della staffed by researchers and experts in various areas. There was a lot of interest during coffee breaks. After lunch before the final session of the forum got started I had interview with Chris Barger from IBM to […]