Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Month: August 2005
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At the risk of stepping into waters that are way over my head, I would like to offer some comments on software patents, an area where many people with a lot more expertise than I have been weighing in. The National Innovation Initiative (NII) in its December 2004 report declared that "intellectual property protection is…
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I recently wrote a blog on the emerging innovations in user interfaces that are being inspired by video game players. I called them 3rd Generation User Interfaces or 3GUI. I ended the blog by observing that while these innovations are enabled by advanced technologies, like the Cell processor jointly developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba…
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A few weeks ago I attended a remarkable lecture by Carlota Perez on technology revolutions and their economic and social impact. Mountains of words have been written and spoken in the last 10 years to attempt to explain all the commotion around the Internet, "new economy", the dot-com boom, the bursting of the "bubble", the…
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I posted my first blog just about 3 months ago. I said in it that I was anticipating an exciting journey, so let me spend a little time reviewing the journey so far. I was honestly taken by surprise by the rise of blogging. My friend John Patrick, with whom I worked very closely at…
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Ever since the Internet hit the mainstream in the mid 1990s, we have seen more and more innovation coming from people working together in open communities, something we have been calling Collaborative Innovation. This is no accident, as the Internet and everything around it have proven to be a wonderful platform for people to come…
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Summer is usually the season for blockbuster movies, which usually feature lots of action, special effects, heroic characters, superstar actors, huge budgets, and so on. I watch my share of these movies, enjoying some a lot (e.g., Batman Begins), others less so. But, in the last few years, I have increasingly enjoyed watching what are…
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Years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was one of the hottest areas in computer science. In the mid 1970s I managed a small team in our Watson Research Center doing work in AI (my first management job in IBM). When you look back, all the efforts from those days to create computers with AI capabilities pretty…
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I recently attended a very interesting lecture on Chinese-American relations by Steven Weber, professor of political science and director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Weber’s central point is that the Sino-American relationship is now central to the health of the global political economy, but it is not a healthy relationship…
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For over 20 years, I have been actively involved in US public policy matters in a variety of roles. In the mid 1980s, for example, I helped found the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) which is part of the National Academies, and served as a member of the board until 1989. From 1997 to…