The other day, a memory from a long, long time ago suddenly popped into my head. In 1962, I was a 17 year old senior finishing high school at the Laboratory Schools – the wonderful K-12 schools associated with the University of Chicago.  In those days, Hyde Park, the Chicago neighborhood where the U of…

The ongoing election season in the US has been fascinating.  We have seen the candidates now come down pretty much to John McCain for the Republicans, and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democrats – all, I must say, first-rate candidates.  I seldom judge candidates on their position on any one issue.  Rather, I…

General Peter Pace is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, – America’s highest ranking military position.  A few weeks ago, General Pace said in a discussion with editors and reporters of the Chicago Tribune:  "I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts.  I do…

In mid-January I went back to Mexico for meetings with clients and academics, as well as colleagues from IBM.  As you might imagine, the immigration debates going on in the US are being closely followed in Mexico.  The people I spoke to were generally very critical of the Mexican government because it has not done…

Diversity is a subject that means a lot to me, and one on which I’ve been active within IBM and at HENAAC – the Hispanic Engineer’s National Achievement Award Conference.  I am proud of IBM’s diversity programs in the workplace, and those of many other companies, which focus on making sure that women and members…

In April, the National Geographic Society and IBM launched the Genographic Project.  This is a fascinating research initiative to map how the Earth was populated and trace the migratory history of the human species using sophisticated laboratory and computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people.  Everyone is invited to participate by…