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Songs of the IBM

June 11, 2011

A few years ago there came into my possession a curious piece of IBM history, a thin paperback volume of 54 pages, privately printed, entitled “Songs of the IBM, 1937 Edition”.  The opening page lays out the context: For thirty-seven years, the gatherings and conventions of our IBM workers have expressed in happy songs the [...]

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Jeopardy x 10

February 16, 2011

I’ve been reading a lot of interesting discussions about the amazing Jeopardy match between human champions and IBM’s Watson computer.  Although I’m in no way involved in this project, it is very exciting to watch this event unfold.  Some of the discussions I’ve read concern the impact of reaction time, who can get to the [...]

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IBM Software Consumability Survey

April 28, 2010

We (IBM’s Software Group) are doing a survey of user perceptions of the “consumability” of our products.  “What is consumability?” you might well ask.  It is a new word for an old idea.  It describes the end-to-end customer experience, the consistency and cohesion of our products and solutions, from acquisition, prototyping, through integration, deployment, maintenance [...]

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