| innovation trends |
[Nov. 20th, 2002|10:50 am] |
article in WSJ 11-20-02 IBM Is to Spend More on Services
Summary: In an unusual change of priorities IBM shifts $1B of its R&D budget from information technology to consulting and computer services.
...Paul Horn, sen.VP: disciplined research on consulting- and services-related problems is "a fundamental shift in the IT industry's research agenda, much like the emergence of software as a critical research discipline in the late 1970s."
...formed new operation called "On Demand Innovation Services" 200 res. scientists to apply math., AI to help solve problems for consulting clients.
...Ginni Rometty, head of Business Consulting Services: help clients by first using "the methods of consulting, which are important to understanding the problem and how to make change happen, then ...apply science to make it happen.
Action: forward and talk to Mark H. to prepare for thursday the 21st. |
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| news, revisit |
[Nov. 20th, 2002|11:20 am] |
New Scientist article: Engineers are working on software to load every photo you take, every letter you write - in fact your every memory and experience - into a surrogate brain that never forgets anything.
e.s. comment: can be done today by something like LJ sw, wherein everybody runs their own server.( Read more... ) |
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