On May 1, 2007 a group of St. John's University faculty and
technology representatives joined IBM in their Hawthorne
facility.
"I loved the entire experience. This is my third trip to
IBM and each and every time they have provided us with great
intellectual challenges and warm hospitality. The aspect I
particularly liked was David Cohen's presentation of "Services
Science." Irving Wladasky Berger was a top notch key speaker
sharing his executive comments with us.”
- Kathleen Voute MacDonald, Dean, College of Professional
Studies
"One of the most exciting aspects of the visit was to learn
about the potential for virtual communities for changing higher
education, both in the face-to-face classroom and in distance
education. As these communities incorporate more and more of
the characteristics of virtual reality, their power to affect
learning will be increasingly powerful."
- James Benson, Vice Provost
IBM Hawthorne Briefing Agenda
8:15 a.m.Welcome to ISL
Bob Stackhouse
8:30 a.m. St John’s
Perspective/Objectives
Joe Tufano
Client speaks to areas of interest for the session
8:45 a.m. Global Technology Outlook
John Mackay
IBM Research division overview of major technology trends in
the IT industry - highlights emerging software, hardware, and
services technology trends that are expected to impact the IT
industry over the next 3-5 years
10 a.m. Overview of Collaboration
Technologies in eLearning
Kevin Singley
IBM Activities in creating innovative learning technologies
to enhance student performance and increase learning
through personalization and contextualization
10:45 a.m. Computer Visualization
Overview
Thomas Jackman
Overview of IBM Research projects aimed at achieving high
quality rendering across a large number of pixels using commodity
components rather than specialized, high-end components.
Scalable Visual Networking (SVN) - used to display a single
graphics window across a large number of pixels, presumably an
array of projectors or monitors, and Remote Visual Networking (RVN)
which allows remote users to view a graphical application as it
runs on a server and to collaborate with other remote
users
11:45 a.m. IBM Executive
Comments
Irving Wladasky-Berger
1 p.m. Smart Surveillance System (S3)
Lisa Brown
Description of IBM Research’s S3 - a middleware offering for
use in surveillance systems which provides video based behavioral
analysis capabilities
2 p.m. Cell Processor Overview
Randy Moulic
Overview of the Cell Architecture which grew from a
challenge posed by Sony and Toshiba to provide power-efficient and
cost-effective high-performance processing for a wide range of
applications, including the most demanding consumer appliance: game
consoles.
3:15 p.m. Services as a Science
David Cohn
Discussion of IBM’s work on a bold, new innovation, that's
not a piece of cutting-edge hardware or software. Instead, IBM is
leading the way to develop and introduce something for colleges and
universities across the U.S. — a new academic discipline called
"Services” Science. Services now account for more than half
of IBM's business, as well as over seventy percent of the U.S.
economy. To support this new services environment, colleges need to
provide an option to study the science behind this expanding and
lucrative area. Services Science can be defined as the
application of scientific, management and engineering disciplines
to a task that one organization beneficially performs with and for
another ('services'). Creating a college degree program to support
that science is the ultimate goal for the IBM team.
3:45 p.m. 2nd Life
Christopher Murasso
Discussion of IBM’s involvement and activities around Second Life –
a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. It
consists of a vast digital continent, teeming with people,
entertainment, experiences and opportunity. It contains a Market
Place which currently supports millions of US dollars in monthly
transactions. This commerce is handled with the in-world
unit-of-trade, the Linden dollar, which can be converted to US
dollars at several thriving online Linden Dollar
exchanges.
4:15 p.m. Technology Floor
Demonstrations
Bob Stackhouse
Demo Tour
4:45 p.m. Discussion/ Next Steps – Close
out
Jim Jagodzinzki