IT-based Innovation in the 21st Century * 4:15PM, Wed Apr 25, 2007 in Gates B01 Stanford

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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4:15PM, Wed Apr 25, 2007 in Gates B01
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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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