Elementary, my dear Watson

Did you miss IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy last night?

Fear not! Here’s the recap of day 1.

Two more nights of Watson on Jeopardy – tonight and tomorrow night – and for those unable to watch live, video will be at http://ibmwatson.com on Feb 17.

Go, Watson!

the Watson Trivia Challenge

Using advanced computing and emerging technology, IBM is building a natural language processing computer code-named Watson to compete in the game show Jeopardy.

You can take the Watson Trivia Challenge and test your wits against Watson. (NYTimes)

Grand Opening – IBM Mass Lab

Today is a very special day at work. It’s the Grand Opening of the new IBM Mass Lab facility in Littleton, complete with dignitaries and VIPs!

Did you know…

• the IBM Mass Lab is IBM’s largest software lab in North America, focused on mobile, collaboration, analytics, business process management software.
• It’s larger than Fenway Park and the Boston Garden
• the IBM Mass Lab is home to 3,400 IBM software developers in MA, about 10% of the worldwide IBM developers
• The new IBM Mass Lab is home to more than 2 petabytes of data (and a Starbucks)

Check out the new digs here:

UPDATED: For more information on the Mass lab and this event:

Boston Innovation: IBM Mass Lab opens, hosts Gov. Deval Patrick

in which I brag up the IBM Support Portal

And in a rare convergence of work-related news HERE, I am thrilled to report that the IBM Support Portal was named one of ASP’s Top Ten Best Web Support Sites.

HUGE kudos due to the folks who’ve worked tirelessly to bring the new IBM Support Portal to fruition (including @rationalwebguy), and to everyone in IBM Technical Support, whose dedication to client success and knowledge-sharing has created an electronic support experience to be proud of.

May I just say….

w00t!

sparkly things!

Check out the shiny new duds the work blog is sporting these days…thanks to the brilliant Bob Leah over at developerWorks, in honor of Innovate 2010, just a few short weeks away now.

I’ll be there – yay!

I call tweet-up! Who’s in?

sherman, set the wayback machine to 1977

IBM 5100 Portable Computer

1977, 64k, 50 pounds, $20,000

engineering paradise

Fun parody from John Cohn, IBM Fellow, Mad Scientist and cast member of Discovery Channel’s post-apocalyptic survival show ‘The Colony’.

I puffy heart working with geeks.

I’m not sure this will fit in my bag

I’m not sure this will fit in my bag, originally uploaded by kellypuffs.

rsc2009, here I come!

Well, it’s official.

I’ll be making my 4th trip to the Rational Software Conference in Orlando, May 31 through June 4. Whoo hoo!

I’ll be blogging and twittering and taking pictures, and being a general nuisance.

We’ve got a Twitter ID: @rsc2009. We’ve got a Twitter hashtag for all your #RSC2009 tweets. We’re on facebook.

We’ve got Danny Sabbah, Steve Mills, Scott Hebner, Grady Booch and … the Mythbuster guys!

There will be 2009 limited edition Rational Support Moo cards, if I ever get off my ass and order them.

The indefatigable Patrick O’Connor will be manning the eSupport pedestal in the Solution Center and would LOVE to show you the new and whammy IBM Support Portal, scheduled for full deployment later this year.

Very exciting stuff … more to come, I’m sure!

Tweetup, anyone?

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In the Kellypuffs’ archives:
RSDC 2006
RSDC 2007
RSDC 2008

share, even if you think everybody knows it already

Honestly? Probably the best thing about working at IBM is the thousands of “wicked smaht” people we get to work with … from all over the world, and all over the business.

Aaron Kim is one of those people.

He wrote a great blog post today on the value of sharing knowledge, and you can find it at his blog: The Bamboo Raft.

My favorite part?

No matter how many people know about anything, there are always more people who don’t know about it.

Share the wealth!