[CAnet - news] IT-based Innovation in the 21st Century

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              Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
                  4:15PM, Wednesday, Apr 25, 2007
         HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
                    http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]


Topic:    IT-based Innovation in the 21st Century

Speaker:  Irving Wladawsky-Berger
           Vice President, Technical Strategy and Innovation
           IBM

About the talk:

Advances in information technologies, combined with open standards, and
especially the Internet, are helping us build a global infrastructure with
the potential to transform business, society and its institutions, and our
personal lives, not unlike the impact that steam power had in ushering the
Industrial Revolution in generations past. The resulting environment is
characterized by collaborative innovation and access to information on an
unprecedented scale. It holds the promise to help us apply engineering
disciplines, tools and processes to the design and management of highly
complex systems, including businesses and organizations, as well as to make
applications much more user-friendly through the use of highly visual,
interactive interfaces.

Slides:

There are no downloadable slides for this talk at this time.

About the speaker:

(photo) Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is responsible for identifying emerging
technologies and marketplace developments critical to the future of the IT
industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and outside IBM in order
to capitalize on them. In conjunction with that, he leads a number of key
innovation-oriented activities and formulates technology strategy and public
policy positions in support of them. As part of this effort, he is also
responsible for the IBM Academy of Technology and the company's university
relations office.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger's role in IBM's response to emerging technologies began
in December 1995 when he was charged with formulating IBM's strategy in the
then emerging Internet opportunity, and developing and bringing to market
leading-edge Internet technologies that could be integrated into IBM's
mainstream business. He has led a number of IBM's company-wide initiatives
including Linux, IBM's Next Generation Internet efforts and its work on Grid
computing. Most recently, he led IBM's on demand business initiative.

He joined IBM in 1970 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he
started technology transfer programs to move the innovations of computer
science from IBM's research labs into its product divisions. After joining
IBM's product development organization in 1985, he continued his efforts to
bring advanced technologies to the marketplace, leading IBM's initiatives in
supercomputing and parallel computing including the transformation of IBM's
large commercial systems to parallel architectures. He has managed a number
of IBM's businesses, including the large systems software and the UNIX
systems divisions.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is a member of the University of Chicago Board of
Governors for Argonne National Laboratories and of the Technology Advisory
Council for BP International. He was co-chair of the President's Information
Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a founding member of the Computer
Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He
is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba,
he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from the
University of Chicago.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger maintains a personal blog[2], which captures
observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation and
the future of information technology.

Contact information:

Irving Wladawsky-Berger
IBM

Embedded Links:
[ 1 ]    http://ee380.stanford.edu
[ 2 ]    http://irvingwb.typepad.com/


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