tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82492005743437044042024-03-14T01:45:48.669-07:00IBM Research Center for Social BusinessMerry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-61825877149620524632014-02-28T08:55:00.000-08:002014-02-28T09:12:07.018-08:00March 11 BostonCHI Innovation Talk: Michael Muller on Crowdfunding Inside the Enterprise <br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">An IBM Research talk, part of the monthly <a href="http://www.bostonchi.org/" target="_blank">BostonCHI speaker series</a></span></h4>
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When: Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:30 PM to 9 PM</div>
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Where: 1 Rogers Street Auditorium, <a href="http://www.bostonchi.org/boston-interactions-calendar/venue-ibm/" target="_blank">IBM Cambridge</a></div>
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Register here: <a href="http://www.bostonchi.org/">http://www.bostonchi.org/</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Encouraging-Internal-Innovation-enterprise-crowdfunding-1851951.S.5836042097567764481" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Crowdfunding Inside the Enterprise: New opportunities for collaborative innovation</span></b></a></div>
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Michael Muller will walk us through a collaborative experiment led by <a href="http://wernergeyer.com/" target="_blank">Werner Geyer</a>, <a href="http://w.linkedin.com/pub/todd-soule/36/207/993" target="_blank">Todd Soule</a>, and Michael, all of <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/index.shtml#fbid=ilITQ2p2s2w" target="_blank">IBM Research</a>, Cambridge, and <a href="http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/john-wafer/17/66/7ba" target="_blank">John Wafer</a> of IBM, Dublin.</div>
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Crowdfunding is a relatively recent Internet phenomenon, in
which an innovator can propose a project and solicit investments from
the public. More than 450 crowdfunding sites are now in operation around
the world, such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Rockethub, Kiva, and Donors
Choose. Successfully-funded projects span much of human aspiration and
intention, including charity, creativity, community service, new
business initiatives, and financial rate-of-return.<br />
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We conducted our own crowdfunding experiment inside IBM.
Our project, I Fund IT (previously “<a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/projects_1x5.shtml" target="_blank">1×5</a>″), has been run four times — in
two research groups, and twice in an IT organization. Outcomes went
well beyond our original expectations, and include: employee proposals
that addressed diverse individual and group needs; very high
participation rates; inter-departmental and international collaboration;
the discovery of many previously unknown collaborators; and the
development of goals and motivations based on collective concerns at all
levels of project groups and communities.<br />
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We discovered that moving crowdfunding “behind the
firewall” is transformative, highlighting opportunities for new forms of
collaboration among employees and between employees and upper
management. We conclude with our current understanding of success
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-muller/6/347/a3a" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px;">About Michael Muller</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1>
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Michael works in the Collaborative User Experience group of
IBM Research, which recently became part of the new Cognitive Computing
organization within IBM Research. His work focuses on metrics and
analytics for enterprise social software applications, and emergent
social phenomena in social software. Earlier IBM work involved
activity-centric computing and communities of practice. Michael is an
internationally recognized expert in participatory design and analysis. His work in this area includes the development
of methods (CARD, PICTIVE, participatory heuristic evaluation) and
theory (ethnocritical heuristics). Michael is an IBM Master Inventor.</div>
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Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-23696508340383643302014-01-29T14:30:00.004-08:002014-01-29T14:39:16.551-08:00More from the Innovation Lab at IBM Connect 2014<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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work together, and perform as an efficient team. Social network analytics with
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Rasmussen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">, Cambridge Lab</span></span></i><a href="mailto:jrasmus@us.ibm.com"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"></span></i></a><i><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></i></div>
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investigate interactive visual analytics for Governance, Risk Management, and
Compliance (GRC). GRC data in IBM OpenPages is based upon defined
business processes and risks along with controls for those risks. Several
visualizations have been created, including a graph-based GRC object
representation that can be used to spot structural anomalies in the data and a
visualization of a Monte Carlo simulation showing the impact of uncontrolled
risks.</span></div>
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large, distributed organizations often face the challenge of losing track of
the customer relationship big picture. Although such individual interactions
are the building blocks of customer relationships, the complexity of
maintaining the big picture greatly increases as the number of touch-points to
the customers increase. The lack of task coordination, awareness, or
collaboration across teams is one of the main problems affecting the client
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distributed teams. It is built on IBM Connections and employs new data and
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Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-39290865972085313632014-01-28T12:22:00.004-08:002014-01-28T15:04:47.341-08:00IBM Research Innovation Lab at IBM Connect 2014<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">It's all about the people...</span> </b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Every year at the annual <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/collaboration/events/connect/" target="_blank">IBM Connect</a> Conference (formerly Lotusphere), the IBM Innovation Lab showcases the future. It provides a first-hand glimpse into the cutting-edge technology being developed at IBM Research labs around the world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are attending the conference, make it a point to visit the lab in Asia 3at the Dolphin. Share ideas with IBM researchers and see their work as it unfolds. This year, the lab is focusing on three areas: <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Smarter Workforce</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Visual Analytics</span></b>, and <b><span style="color: red;">Co-Inventing with Customers</span></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is our latest thinking about enabling your workforce, by way of four IBM research demos being shown in the lab:</span></span><br />
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most effectively support our internal business processes and back office
operations? Is our sales force aligned with our clients? Do our sellers have
the right skills and expertise to sell our products? Our prototype will demonstrate
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">Shubir
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be an even greater challenge. How can we proactively identify which employees
are at high risk of leaving? Can we determine the characteristics of these
employees to better understand the reason for attrition? How can we integrate
the predictive results with compensation, learning, succession planning, and performance
management systems so that decisions are made with precision? How can we
improve employee engagement, retain the best and brightest, ensure compensation
is competitive, and let top performers know there is a career path available?
It all starts with understanding the patterns that are hidden in the data. See our demo and find out more.</span></span></span></div>
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Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-49775298117117441672013-12-18T13:15:00.001-08:002014-01-28T12:33:54.130-08:00A Year in Social Learning Research - Irene Greif, former IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist<br />
Last month I retired from IBM. I spent my last year focused on social learning, the backbone of any organization that identifies itself as a social business. Here are some thoughts about what I learned.<br />
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In a time of accelerating change, when the relationship between skills and jobs is rapidly being redefined, businesses are constantly struggling to keep their workforce informed, prepared, and engaged. Across the globe, technological and demographic changes are challenging entrenched teaching methods. As large organizations incorporate social technologies into their daily business, they are finding that "learning in context" follows very naturally – quite a contrast to traditional corporate training. <br />
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At the same time, higher education is being disrupted by Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). MOOCs are in their infancy, but as they develop they could replace college campus education as we know it today and transform the learning experience in general. <a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">Khan Academy</a> makes educational material, and learning, available to anyone on the web. One thing is for sure, we need to find new ways to serve both the degree-oriented student and the lifelong learner looking to craft their own paths. <br />
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Striking similarities exist among the changes in the enterprise, K-12, and higher education – all are trying to address different aspects of the same problem. In business the challenge is keeping up with change, in K-12 it is enabling students to deal with change, and in higher education it is finding the right balance between academic goals and job-readiness. We contend that all of these have common cause in social learning: learning through peers, through project-based learning, internships and apprenticeships. <br />
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And all can be supported by the same social technologies that are fueling both consumer-space socializing and business-oriented social business. In my own experience at IBM, I have seen many examples of this with our own research customers.<br />
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<li>A multinational engineering and electronics company is now piloting <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/projects_socialqanda.shtml" target="_blank">Social Q&A</a>, a system that gets you answers quickly from colleagues. It is just-in-time support for question answering and a great example of social learning -- you formulate a question, get an answer from a compatible colleague, and put the new information to use immediately, one of the best ways to internalize new information. And at the same time, you are helping build a database of answers for others.</li>
<li>A global leader in the building materials industry is using our system for “<a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/projects_expeditingexpertise.shtml" target="_blank">expediting expertise</a>.” This system helps people analyze their personal skills gaps and provides learning paths to close those gaps by modeling the behavior and language of experts. Personalized paths are created based on the individual’s distance to expertise and instrumented social software that recorded the way experts put together their own route to mastery.</li>
<li>For <a href="http://www.childrenshospital.org/" target="_blank">Boston Children’s Hospital</a>'s <a href="http://www.openpediatrics.org/" target="_blank">Open Pediatrics</a> project, IBM created a social learning environment that supports apprenticeship, collaboration, and skills development. Experts at Children’s Hospital develop content on pediatric intensive care practices that is delivered to hospitals in remote locations. Questions can be posed at any point in the video, and experts or peers in their geography can supply answers and advice from their own experience. The learning engages both learner and mentors and approximates face-to-face apprenticeships that would not otherwise be feasible.</li>
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Though the previous examples are all business oriented, they can be applied in an educational setting. We are currently working with <a href="http://www.ptechnyc.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1" target="_blank">PTECH</a> in NYC and <a href="http://publish.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps/home/public" target="_blank">Gwinnett County Public Schools</a> in Atlanta, Georgia - both blazing new trails in public education from K-20. And we are reaching out to education researchers, looking for the ways that they incorporate social learning to see what we can incorporate from their experience into a business setting. In January at <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/collaboration/events/connect/" target="_blank">IBM Connect 2014</a> we will demo several social business that involve social learning at the Innovation Lab, which runs the entire length of the Connect Conference. In addition, we highlight these projects on our <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/" target="_blank">Social Business web site</a> with accompanying blog postings exploring this relationship. <br />
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Social businesses run on social learning. Education in the 21st century has to be social. I believe it's time to bring business and education together on this topic.Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-35001240498944454272013-11-19T13:49:00.002-08:002013-11-19T15:04:29.874-08:00IBM Fellow Irene Greif Retires – A Pioneer in Building Workplaces that Work<br />
IBM Fellow <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/witexhibit/wit_fellows_greif.html" target="_blank" title="IBM Profile, Irene Greif">Irene Greif</a> retired yesterday after more than 25 years with Lotus Development Corporation and IBM. Irene joined Lotus in 1987 as head of the Advanced Technology group and in 1992 created the Lotus Research group. In 200, at IBM, she expanded the Research team to become the Collaborative User Experience Group, and in 2008 she created
the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/" target="_blank" title="IBM Center for Social Business">Center for Social Business</a>,
a global research effort on reinventing the way people work. Along the
way, these teams built the foundations of <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ibmsame" target="_blank">Lotus Sametime</a> and <a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/" target="_blank">IBM Connections</a>, and revamped email to be the social tool it is today.<br />
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A few days before Irene left IBM, she sat down with Chris Nay from IBM Research for a conversation about her journey from MIT in the 1970s to social business and social learning in 2013. You can find it here at <a href="http://greateribm.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/ibm-fellow-irene-greif-retires-a-pioneer-in-building-a-workplace-that-works/?lnk=w3news" target="_blank">Greater IBM Connection.</a><br />
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Irene speaking at the 2012 Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference, where she won the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuhJ9UWGzKg&noredirect=1" target="_blank">Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award </a><br />
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<br />Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-47202059329881093702013-10-30T12:58:00.000-07:002013-11-08T18:46:49.203-08:00IBM Research, Cambridge is hiring data visualization researchers<br />
IBM's Watson Research Center (Cambridge, MA) is looking to hire a creative researcher to join the team at the Center for Innovation in Visual Analytics (CIVA). We are currently looking for candidates with a research track record in information visualization and a good understanding of human-computer interaction, decision-making processes, and social sciences.<br />
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Our research group aims to advance the state of the art in visual analytics. We are an interdisciplinary group comprised of computer scientists, data scientists, social network analysts, and designers. Our laboratory is located a few minutes from the MIT campus in an inclusive, friendly, open work environment.<br />
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We are working in a diverse set of truly fascinating projects ranging from pure R&D/papers (VIS, Infovis, CHI, SIGGRAPH), to applied mathematics, to prototypes for large global industries, to gallery installations.<br />
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Are you this candidate? Contact <span class="email"><a class="email" href="mailto:mmartino@us.ibm.com" tabindex="0">mmartino@us.ibm.com</a></span><br />
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Key responsibilities:<br />
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<li>Identify and explore new sources for data generation, creating innovative tools for data mining and processing</li>
<li>Interpret, analyze, and model complex datasets for visualization and communication</li>
<li>Develop methodologically sophisticated tools for statistical inference and predictive analytics</li>
<li>Create avant-garde visualization platforms that bridge the gap between data, analysis, and understanding</li>
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<li>Programming and scripting language proficiency in: C/C++, Objective C, Java, Python, Matlab, R, Ruby on Rails, HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, Javascript (and associated APIs and libraries: jQuery, WebGL, three.JS, JSON), Actionscript 2.0 & 3.0, GLSL, Cg, HLSL, Applescript, and Unix Shells</li>
<li>Comfortable working in a variety of IDEs, including Eclipse, Xcode, and Visual Studio</li>
<li>Comfortable Developing for Following Platforms: OSX, Unix, Windows, Android, iOS, J2ME, and the Web</li>
<li>Knowledge in all Adobe Creative Suite Applications</li>
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<li>Readiness to travel 10% travel annually</li>
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Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-29079653407412475662013-09-24T12:48:00.001-07:002013-09-24T12:52:40.740-07:00IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa Recognized with Japan's Prestigious Medal of Honor<br />
The Japanese government has awarded the 2013 Medal of Honor with
Purple Ribbon to IBM Fellow <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=jp-CHIE">Chieko
Asakawa</a> for her outstanding contributions to accessibility research,
including the development of a voice browser for the visually impaired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First awarded in 1955, this medal is given to individuals who have contributed to
academic and artistic developments, improvements and accomplishments.<br />
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Chieko, who became blind when she was a teenager, put her life experience to work. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Her goal: to answer questions like "How can we easily access products and information without using the
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-80650492814104251412013-02-07T10:31:00.000-08:002013-02-07T10:39:56.216-08:00IBM Connect 2013 - One Innovation Lab...Four days...700 demos<div style="font-family: inherit;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The 2013 IBM Innovation Lab was one of the best attended since we started the lab over 12 years ago at Lotusphere. This year we had three main themes:</span>
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to monitor social media to know what's being said, understand the
message being delivered through visualization, and predict the effect of
responses through simulation. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Two examples...
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: green;"><b>TwitterViz</b></span>, from <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-steven_rohall" target="_blank">Steve Rohall</a>,
is a visual dashboard that offers rapid insight into the
TwitterSphere. Users can enter key word/s and get real-time results of
top words, their sentiments, topic clusters and co-occurrence of terms.
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<span style="color: green; font-size: small;"><b>OmniProfiling</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> from <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-ehaber" target="_blank">Eben Haber</a>,
explores social data to provide richer profiles to better serve our
customers. It creates “omni-profiles” of many traits from content on
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Timeline Visualization for Case Management</b></span><i>, </i>from <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-yannick" target="_blank">Yannick Assogba</a>,
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><b>1x5 Enterprise Crowdfunding</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">,</span> from <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-Werner.Geyer" target="_blank">Werner Geyer</a>,
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trial that demonstrates how tapping into the collective intelligence of
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Smart Social Q & A</b></span>, from <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=cn-luolin" target="_blank">Lin Luo</a>,
helps people get good answers quickly. When a question is posed, the
system searches the existing set of questions and responds immediately
if an answer exists. If the question is new, the system finds people who
can answer it, bringing together the knowledge stored in the heads of
the crowd to solve problem. And, our system works within IBM
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Visualizing the Social Graph</b></span>, from <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-INBAL" target="_blank">Inbal Ronen</a>,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> is a dynamic visualization of community evolution, allowing a community owner to replay the activities in the community over time. You can observe and get insight on how and why certain behavioral patterns occurred, who contributed, what they did, and when. And you can see interactions between multiple communities.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Check out a longer list of research projects at the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/index.shtml" target="_blank">Center for Social Business</a> web site.</span></div>
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IBM Connect 2013 asks you to i<span style="font-size: small;">magine the power of a workforce where people are in the 'best fit'
jobs, fully engaged, empowered and highly productive. Picture a
workforce as a network of communities where employees can instantly find
the right colleagues, inside or outside the immediate work group, to
fill gaps in their expertise, and tap knowledge across departments,
across languages, across oceans. These images are no longer just visions
of the future; today smarter workforces are driving innovation to bring
products and services to market faster, resolving problems before they
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scientists who work on a range of exploratory research projects in
search of innovations that advance the capabilities of technology as
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universities apply scientific breakthroughs to solve real-world business
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Meet team members from the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/index.shtml" target="_blank">IBM Research Center for Social Business</a> whose work focuses on social analytics,
collaborative decision making, best-fit expertise solutions, and other
cutting-edge technologies—game changing research helping transform
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particularly interested in the links between visual form, graphic
design, and spatial reasoning. This avenue of research is significantly
influenced by the principles of cartography, visualization, cognitive
psychology, vision science, spatial analysis, and human computer
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University of California, Santa Barbara, in August, 2007. His
dissertation investigated real-time traffic maps - both to understand
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an ensemble of analytical techniques designed to quantify, visualize,
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Do you consider yourself to be both a designer and an engineer? When you look at a user interface, do you envision a different way of presenting the information? Do you play with visualization toolkits in your spare time?<br /><br />The IBM Collaborative User Experience Research group, part of IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, is looking for someone who can both design and contribute to building innovative visual interfaces, tools for new ways of collaborating, and one-of-a-kind visualizations for exploring complex data analytics.<br /><br />In this role, you will join a team of researchers and developers who are setting the standard of design of social media tools for businesses. Our research focuses on collaboration and social media for businesses, and our goal is to imagine and invent the future of how people will work together. Our applications and research discoveries inform IBM's next generation of products for workplace collaboration and data analytics.</div>
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<li>Demonstrated ability to distill a complex data set into an impactful and insightful visual representation of the data</li>
<li>Expertise in the Adobe Creative Suite or similar</li>
<li>Expertise in Web UI technologies (HTML, CSS, AJAX, and JavaScript)</li>
<li>Experience with one or more web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or J2EE</li>
<li>Experience with one or more data visualization tools such as D3 or Raphaeljs</li>
<li>Experience developing mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas</li>
<li>Strong interest in social media, communication tools, and data</li>
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Colloquia, "Box Office to Front Office: Winning with Big Data," will
convene Bay Area thought leaders and experts in sports and entertainment
for a discussion on using <b>Big, Fast Data</b> to engage consumers, develop products and drive revenue.<br />
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deliver measurable growth in their markets, how global brands are
shifting from understanding markets to understanding people to drive
deeper engagement, and exploring how leading sports, media and
entertainment companies are rethinking their data environments to create
new value – using analytics and social and mobile technologies to
innovate customer life cycles, create differentiated experiences and
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While in-store shopping accounts for the vast majority of retail sales,
consumers are expecting the same levels of personalization and
customization that they do when they shop online. In fact, 19 percent of
consumers are already browsing their mobile devices while in-store.
Scientists at the IBM Research lab in Haifa are looking to bring all the benefits
of online shopping into traditional, brick-and-mortar stores and are
creating a new augmented reality mobile shopping app that
will give in-store shoppers instant product details and promotions
through their mobile devices.<br />
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The new IBM Research app will offer shoppers product comparisons and special
offers as they move throughout the store. It captures images via the
built-in video camera on a user's smart phone or tablet and uses
advanced image processing technologies to quickly and accurately
identify a product or row of items. Once the app recognizes the
products, it will display information above the product images and rank
them based on a number of criteria, such as price and nutritional value.
It will also provide the shopper with any loyalty rewards or incentives
that may apply and suggest complementary items based on what the
customer has already viewed.
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We are looking for a highly motivated student to participate in an exciting project on social media visualization in collaboration with several visualization and human-computer interaction researchers across several IBM Research labs. The project involves design and development of novel real-time visualizations of status data from social networking websites to help users understand quality and quantity of the content and structure of evolving topics of discussions. The work will involve development of a scalable back-end architecture for capturing streaming data, extracting features from data and meta-data, aggregating and transforming data, defining visualizations in a declarative specification language, and possibly extending the declarative visualization language, as well as front-end graphical user interface for rendering and interacting with visualizations.<br />
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Web Development: Javascript, Dojo Framework,<br />
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Familiarity with AJAX and Comet server communication approaches is preferred.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Submit resume to eser@us.ibm.com</span></b>Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-50572940294070135212012-05-25T14:27:00.003-07:002012-05-25T14:55:59.046-07:00Can Social Games Solve America’s Biggest Health Challenge? A talk with Rajiv Kumar, MD , Founder of ShapeUp<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
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rapidly rising health care costs driven by unhealthy behaviors and a
national obesity epidemic, self-insured employers have told their
employees to “shape up.” But regular physical activity and healthy
eating are easier said than done. Many years and millions of dollars
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change solution for employee populations that uses social gaming, in the
form of team-based competitions, to activate, motivate, and guide
participants toward reaching their healthy goals. This approach
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years to reach 2 million lives across 93 countries at companies like HP,
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<span style="font-size: small;">"During medical school, I realized that many of the worst health
problems we face as a nation--diabetes, heart disease, cancer,
hypertension, osteoarthritis, depression--are related to our collective
unhealthy lifestyle. I also learned through my clinical encounters that
the patients who succeeded in adopting and sustaining healthy behaviors
were those who leveraged their trusted social network for support,
motivation, and accountability.<br /><br /> By launching a community
non-profit organization (Shape Up Rhode Island) and a for-profit company
(ShapeUp), I've dedicated my life to helping people reverse and prevent
obesity-related illnesses through group behavior change models. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /> Our goal is to build the largest online social application that connects people around the world to improve their health."</span></div>
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This morning, <a href="http://researcher.ibm.com/view.php?person=us-jthomsa" target="_blank">Jenn Thom</a> was one of 20 women honored at the <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/event/65051" target="_blank">2012 Women to Watch Breakfast</a> sponsored by <a href="http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2012/02/27/daily25-Mass-High-Tech-names-20-Women-to-Watch-for-2012.html" target="_blank">Mass High Tech</a>. The MHT annual program is nine years strong, and each year names honorees in various fields. This
year the program has recognized women in tech and
life sciences who are thought leaders in their field and shaping the
future of their industries for years to come, and honorees were selected from more than 100 nominations. <br />
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<b>Why Jenn Thom? </b><br />
Jenn is a Research Scientist in the Visual Communications Lab, part of the Collaborative User Experience Group at IBM Research in Cambridge. She is a<b> </b>rising star in the field of human-computer interaction
and its intersection with social business technology. In 2009, she received a Ph.D. from Cornell University, where her dissertation work focused on how users express
territorial behaviors in online collaborative spaces. Her current research focus includes computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), intercultural
communication and collaboration, and social networking. As social media moves beyond the
consumer market and is rapidly being adopted and adapted by the
corporate world, Thom is studying the acceptance and usage of social
media by companies and how it affects user interactions and
collaboration. <br />
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In November 2011, her research in gamification – the use of game design
techniques in non-game technologies - was featured in the Wired
magazine article,<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/ibm-game/" target="_blank">IBM Proves Playing Virtual Games is Serious Business.</a></span> In February 2012, this research was cited in<span style="font-size: small;"> the Daily SEO Blog article, "<a href="http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-community-builders-can-learn-from-research" target="_blank">What Community Builders Can Learn From Research</a>."</span> You can find her current list of research publications in <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/researcher/64169668_Jennifer_Thom-Santelli" target="_blank">ResearchGate</a>.<br />
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In March 2012, at South by Southwest, Jenn was invited to be a panelist on the <a href="http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13159" target="_blank">Maps of Time, Data as Narrative</a> panel (now podcast) - a discussion about the relationship between visualized data and the histories we tell.<br />
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In April, the MHT Review spotlighted Jenn in this article,<span style="font-size: small;"> "<a href="http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2012/04/16/daily24-2012-Women-to-Watch-Jennifer-Thom.html" target="_blank">2012 Women to Watch: Jennifer Thom</a>."</span><br />
We know we will hear more from and about Jenn Thom. Congratulations on well deserved recognition.<br />
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IBM Center for Social Business welcomes Dr. Jeffrey P. Burns, a game
changer in pediatric care, who has an amazing story to tell. He will share a
journey that began as a dream to help pediatric medical staff in places around the world who did
not have access to critical knowledge they needed to save kids lives. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="vevent"><span class="description">While watching the Masters in 2009, he saw an interactive "see and do"
web site he thought could do exactly what he wanted. As it turned out,
this site was designed by IBM Interactive, with a group based in
Cambridge. After a three-year collaboration between Dr. Burns and a
Cambridge-based IBM Interactive team led by Adam Cutler, Open Pediatrics
is a reality.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="vevent"><span class="description">The soon-to-be-released
web-based educational application will be a resource for pediatric
critical care givers around the world. By harnessing the reach of the
Internet, access to the latest knowledge about effective health care
will no longer be bottle necked within the walls of institutions. It can
now be shared instantly so that clinicians across the globe can gain
access to life-saving information at any time.</span></span></span><br />
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This comprehensive, continually updated, and peer-reviewed
knowledge exchange platform is dedicated to providing multimedia
and interactive educational resources to physicians and nurses on
optimal care of the critically ill child. The site's mission is to provide information on demand, curricular
learning maps for training clinicians, and a platform for knowledge
exchange and collaboration between care providers around the world.<br />
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The beta release will include 1000 users in hospitals across six
continents. A total of 9 modules will cover a range of topics pertinent
to the care of critically ill children. Each topic will include expert
content, including video lectures and demonstrations, pre- and post-
topic knowledge assessments, and best practice protocols and guidelines.
When applicable, a module will include a simulator or avatar-based
simulations for more comprehensive and interactive learning.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="vevent"><span class="description">Andrew
McAfee studies how Information Technology (IT) affects
businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT
changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a
higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects
competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and
survival within an industry. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="vevent" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span class="description">McAfee's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaf9YGz6Es&context=C3992457ADOEgsToPDskIVVj1vGHlg_czPucoCUVar" target="_blank">November 2011 talk</a> at the Center for Social Business, </span><span class="description">based on his recent book,</span><span class="description"> <a href="http://raceagainstthemachine.com/" target="_blank">Race Against the Machine</a>, is now on YouTube. In this talk, he </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">brings together statistics, examples, and arguments to show that technological
progress is accelerating, and that this trend has deep consequences for
skills, wages, and jobs. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Workers whose skills have been mastered by computers have less
to offer the job market and see their wages and prospects shrink.
Entrepreneurial business models, new organizational structures, and
different institutions are needed to ensure that the average worker is
not left behind by cutting-edge machines.</span></span>Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-38013283323085482352012-01-19T06:31:00.000-08:002012-02-08T15:28:47.132-08:00Interview with Irene Greif on Social Business - What and WhyThe former Center for Social Software is now the <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/social/" target="_blank">Center for Social Business</a>. There are many reasons for changing our name. The main one is that our research has become focused on helping our clients transform themselves into social businesses.<br />
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The first question to ask and understand is, "What is a social business?" Watch this Lenny Liebmann, IT columnist, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nKea5gmsE" target="_blank">interview with Irene Greif</a>, the Director of the Center, as she explains how a social business looks and acts.Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-41294697806759522982011-12-21T13:58:00.000-08:002011-12-21T13:59:23.430-08:00Speaker Series now on YouTubeFor the past two years, The Center has hosted talks by a variety of speakers - all somehow related to social networks, social media, communities, and data analytics. We have been able to video many of these talks and recently launched our own Channel on YouTube. <br />
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Curious about what S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and the Digital, has to say about young technology users and how that technology is
shaping their lives?<br />
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Want to hear first-hand about entrepreneur Yuchun Lee's days
counting cards on the MIT Blackjack team, his experience running a small company, and what it's like going from a startup to a
very big company called IBM?<br />
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What social, biological, and mathematical principles help determine how
and why human social networks form and how they operate? Nicholas Christakis talks about his lab's work - using observational and experimental
datasets to understand the structure and function of human networks.<br />
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MIT's Sandy Pentland explores how increased productivity and creative
output are key to understanding how social networks - face-to-face and
digital - shape the behavior of both employees and customers.<br />
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Watch these videos and more on our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMCtr4SocialBiz" target="_blank">Speaker Series Videos</a>.Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-11291455525581166412011-11-03T11:32:00.000-07:002011-11-03T11:40:07.477-07:00Race Against the Machine: A Conversation with Andrew McAfee<span class="description"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The IBM Center for Social Software (soon to become the Center for Social Business) </span><span style="font-size: small;">is very pleased</span><span style="font-size: small;"> to welcome Andrew McAfee to our Fall 2011 Speaker Series. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Join us on November 7 at 3:30 PM for a memorable event. This talk is open to the public and free of charge. Refreshments will be served.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Digital technologies are rapidly encroaching on skills
that used to belong to humans alone. This phenomenon is broad and
deep, and has profound economic implications. Many of these implications
are positive; digital innovation increases productivity, reduces prices
(sometimes to zero), and grows the overall economic pie. But digital
innovation has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and
here the news is not good for the median worker. As technology races
ahead, it can leave many people behind. Workers whose skills have been
mastered by computers have less to offer the job market, and see their
wages and prospects shrink. Entrepreneurial business models, new
organizational structures and different institutions are needed to
ensure that the average worker is not left behind by cutting-edge
machines. McAfee brings together a range of statistics, examples, and
arguments to show that technological progress is accelerating, and that
this trend has deep consequences for skills, wages, and jobs. He makes
the case that employment prospects are grim for many today not because
technology has stagnated, but instead because we humans and
our organizations aren't keeping up.</span></div>
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<span class="vevent" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="description">Andrew
McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects
businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT
changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a
higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects
competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and
survival within an industry. </span></span><br />
<span class="vevent" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="description"><br />McAfee coined the phrase “Enterprise
2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the
use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began
blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other
research. McAfee is
currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital
Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He received his
Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of
Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.</span></span><span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We start off our Fall 2011 Speaker Series on Monday, October 17 at 3:30 with MIT's <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/%7Esandy/" target="_blank" title="Alex Sandy Pentland web site">Alex 'Sandy' Pentland</a>. Sandy
will explore how increased productivity and creative output are key to
understanding how social networks, face-to-face and digital, shape the
behavior of both employees and customers. Through the `big data'
collected by Sandy's research group via sensors, they are able to measure
the behavior of hundreds of people over long periods of time, and build
models that provide accurate predictions of human decision making across
a wide range of scales...team, organization, and even city. These
models can also be used to more effectively shape social behaviors.
Sandy's team proved this when they won DARPA's 40th Anniversary Internet
Grand Challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As a consequence of these new capabilities, personal
data is becoming ever more valuable... and also more dangerous. To
address this concern Sandy will describe his work with the World
Economic Forum, which has led to the emergence of a new personal data
framework.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sandy directs MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media
Lab Entrepreneurship Program, and advises the World Economic Forum,
Nissan Motor Corporation, and a variety of start-up firms. He has
previously helped create and direct MIT’s Media Laboratory, the
Media Lab Asia laboratories at the Indian Institutes of Technology, and Strong Hospital’s Center for Future
Health. Profiles of Sandy
have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times, Forbes,
and Harvard Business Review. </span></div>
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Sandy is among
the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and a pioneer in
computational social science, organizational engineering, mobile computing,
image understanding, and modern biometrics. His research has been
featured in Nature, Science, the World Economic Forum, and Harvard
Business Review, as well as being the focus of TV features including Nova
and Scientific American Frontiers. His most recent book is `Honest
Signals,' published by MIT Press.</span></div>
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<br />Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8249200574343704404.post-76211062458883936652011-06-20T09:42:00.001-07:002011-07-18T15:41:18.470-07:00Taking Risks - Yuchun Lee's Journey from Blackjack to Big BlueOur final speaker for the Spring 2011 series Is Yuchun Lee, currently the <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="bio">VP of IBM's Enterprise Marketing Management Group. </span></span></span><span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="bio">He will tell his </span>personal story - about his days counting cards on the now-famous Blackjack team at MIT, his experience at Unica running a small company, and what it's like going from a startup to being bought out by a very big company.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VE4TQZoKj7o/Tf94rTeJ7RI/AAAAAAAAGyQ/tjSkhz16eyU/s1600/yuchun_lee_blackjack2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VE4TQZoKj7o/Tf94rTeJ7RI/AAAAAAAAGyQ/tjSkhz16eyU/s320/yuchun_lee_blackjack2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620343545338129682" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span class="vevent"><span class="description"><br /></span></span><span class="vevent"><span class="description"><p><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong>About Yuchun Lee</strong></span></p> <p>Yuchun Lee is a born entrepreneur who came to the U.S. from Taiwan when he was 13. By then he was already “fascinated by the concept of commerce,” he says, in particular, “how to accumulate business and make more money.” He started a software company while in high school in Houston, TX, and says he got in his proverbial “10,000 hours” of experience with computers and programming during those formative years.<br /><br />In the mid-1980s, Lee came to Boston to do his undergraduate and master’s degrees at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. After graduating in 1989, he went to work for Digital Equipment Corporation, the venerable Route 128 computer company. Lee left DEC and started Unica in 1992, together with two other MIT grads. Unica was acquired by IBM in 2010.</p></span></span>Merry Morsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00584400459384579742noreply@blogger.com5