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PBS just put up a new documentary on installing the IBM Quantum Computer at RPI. I was very involved with this effort, and helped make it a success. Lots of the folks that are in this documentary are folks I meet with…

Part of the wonderful time I had at North Bay Python was also getting to represent IBM on stage for a few minutes as part of our sponsorship of the conference. The thing I showed during those few minutes was writing some…

After comparing various speech to text engines , and staring at transcripts, I got intrigued about how much more metadata I was getting back from Watson about the speech. With both timings and confidence levels I built a…

I listen to a lot of podcasts. Often months later something about one I listened to really strikes a chord, enough that I want to share it with others through Facebook or my blog. I'd like to quote the relevant section,…

As soon as you get beyond a few people, you are working “remotely”. If you aren’t in the same room you will have your main workflow happening through tooling. Yes, you can get together to meet face to face on topics, but…

For the past 20 years, IBM has been an avid, methodical buyer of its own stock. In 1993, it had 2.3 billion shares outstanding. Today it has 1.1 billion, shrinking at more than 1% per quarter over the past few years. At…

Friday will be my last day at IBM. It's been an incredible run here, but, as they say, all good things.... I've had a pretty amazing run at IBM. From the Sydney Olympics to OpenStack, with tons of really cool projects in…

I'm fortunate to be working in a field and an area where the people around me are mostly swimming in the same direction. While there may be disagreements from time to time, those are mostly ones where you can see their…

When I returned to IBM Poughkeepsie after Christmas Vacation, I was startled to see this as I pulled into the parking lot. I'm not sure if they are meant to scare away the geese, the deer, or the unsuspecting programmer.…

Thursday is the IBM Centennial, when IBM as a company turns 100 years old. It's a pretty amazing thing. I've got my own set of reflections on that which will come later, because my brain is currently entirely focussed on…

One of the things that's most inspired me at IBM over the last couple of years has been a division wide initiative to adopt Agile development methodology among the teams. There remains a lot of resistance to such a…

NOVA just aired their special on Watson, the computer that is going to compete on the IBM Jeopardy challenge, and it's really good. Even my wife, who often waves that kind of thing off as "boring" was sucked in…

The IBM centennial kicked of today, with the publishing of this video 100x100 , a hundred advances over 100 years, each one read by someone born in that year. Great stuff.

One of the things that continues to inspire me about IBM is that we keep taking on some really deep research issues. There aren't that many organizations in the world that could go after something like this. I can't wait…

I was fortunate enough to attend a local IBM Academy event yesterday, which included a number of great talks. Right out of the gate there was a talk by one of the people leading the Smarter Planet initiative, which was…

As it turns out I'll be giving 2 talks at the Ohio Linux Fest , coming up on Sept 26th in Columbus Ohio. OpenSim: Open Source 3D Worlds For OpenSim folks seeing this in the planet (or elsewheres), I'll be giving an…

Foul Plea: one chicken's appeal for a smarter food system This was made by IBM. Things like this are part of what keeps me proud to be at IBM.

About 3 weeks ago Eben gave an invited talk at IBM Research about Copyleft Capitalism, which I'm kicking myself for not driving down to see in person. Fortunately it has been posted to Google Videos: ( direct link for…

I was in the middle of this amusing exchange the other day. Names removed to protect the innocent, and summarized a bit. I like and respect everyone involved in the exchange, but it just shows a difference of world view.…

The last two days of work weren't actually work per say, they were the Leadership Excellence class here at IBM. I'd heard really good things about the class from people that I very much respect that have gone through it,…

Ben posted about this over the weekend, and it made me think a bit. When I was just graduating college, and was asked the question, I had a few answers I thought I could give to that. In 5 years I Would not be working…