IBM is moving forward with a virtual world for developer collabo. IBM is moving forward with its Jazz application lifecycle management platform Monday, expanding access to the Jazz.net community and touting Project Bluegrass, which seeks a virtual world for developer collaboration. The company also is readying a second beta release of the first Jazz product, called IBM Rational Concert Express. "The first thing we're doing is we're opening up the Jazz.net community to everyone," and allowing them to participate in the evolution of Jazz, said Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM. Previously, the year-old Jazz.net community was open only to IBM Rational customers, academics and partners. Allowing greater access to Jazz.net boosts exposure, noted Liz Barnett, principal analyst at EZinsight. "They're going to expose the technology to a much wider audience, certainly [to] many people who are not IBM tool customers," she said.
Developers could work together while viewing interactive representations of ideas and data. Visual Communication Lab @ IBM. In the Visualization and Behavior Group we take the perspective that data visualization should make data analytics accessible to anyone, not just the data's experts. We also believe that using social software for communication is the new norm, not a trend. We ask questions related to this world where people communicate through social media and gain insight into their world with data visualization. Our group builds innovative visual interfaces, designs novel user experiences for exploring analytics, and analyzes users' behavior in terms of motivations, incentives, and cultural influences. Some questions that keep us up at night: What does it take to trust the results shown in a visualization? Previous Projects. Many Eyes. IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group | CN.
IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group. Invests in Collaborative Innovation Ideas. BEIJING, CHINA - 14 Nov 2006: IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Samuel J. Palmisano today announced that the company will invest $100 million over the next two years to pursue ten new businesses generated by InnovationJam, an unprecedented experiment in collaborative innovation held earlier this year. The largest on-line brainstorming session ever, InnovationJam brought together more than 150,000 people from 104 countries, including IBM employees, family members, universities, business partners and clients from 67 companies. Over two 72-hour sessions, participants posted more than 46,000 ideas as they explored IBM’s most advanced Research technologies and considered their application to real-world problems and emerging business opportunities.
"Collaborative innovation models require you to trust the creativity and intelligence of your employees, your clients and other members of your innovation network," said Palmisano. About IBM For more information about IBM, visit www.ibm.com. IBM accelerates push into 3D virtual worlds. IBM accelerates push into 3D virtual worlds Thu Nov 9, 2006 11:40pm PST By Adam Reuters SECOND LIFE, Nov 10 (Reuters) - IBM is ramping up its push into virtual worlds with an investment of roughly US$10 million over the next year, including an expanded presence within Second Life and the development of its own 3D intranet. Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Palmisano (right, with his Second Life avatar) is set to visit Second Life on Tuesday, Nov. 14 following a “town hall” meeting with some 7,000 employees in China, according to a spokesman.
He will speak with the more than 250 in-world IBM employees on one of the company’s private islands. Big Blue has already established the biggest Second Life presence of any Fortune 500 company. “We always ask the question, ‘if you knew 20 years ago what you know about the Web today, what would you do differently?’” “The essence of ecommerce today is built around the idea of catalogs.
The ever-expanding metaverse. "Metaverse Evangelist" is not a title you expect to see on a business card, let alone one from an employee of a century-old technology company. But then Roo Reynolds of IBM is not a normal employee. Living a double life, one as a twenty-something software engineer and the other as an online four-foot alien, Mr Reynolds flits between dusty wood-panelled meeting rooms and anything-goes virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe.
His job since March 2006 has been to preach the gospel of the online 3D universe to IBM executives and the company's clients. "I'm bringing the idea of virtual worlds to IBM," said Mr Reynolds, known as Algernon Spackler in Second Life. "Helping IBM to understand virtual worlds and how we might use them. " 3D bubble Companies like IBM are being forced to sit up and take note of these digital realms, 3D worlds populated by onscreen representations (avatars) of real life people, as they gain more and more popularity. And Second Life is not alone. Good timing. Eightbar. IBM's 'secret island' | The Register. High performance access to file storage It would not be the first time the suggestion has been made that games programmers hold at least one key to the future for business systems development. But IBM's latest research project - a "secret island" within the confines of Linden Labs' Second Life massively multi-player games environment - brings that possibility a whole lot closer.
The basic premise is to exploit the multi-player and graphics capabilities at which games programmers now generally excel to create an on-screen virtual analogue of a business. The idea behind this is simple, according to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, vice president of technology strategy and innovation at IBM. "Government and enterprise back-end systems are getting ever more complex, with even printers having IP addresses. Visualisation tools are already well-advanced in engineering and science, but he feels there is a long way to go in areas such as business modeling and management. IBM Begins Shipping Chips For Nintendo's Wii. IBM has begun shipping its first processors for Nintendo for use in the upcoming Wii console, the company said Friday. IBM’s “Broadway” processor is now in volume production, Ron Martino, an IBM business executive responsible for the company’s third-party design work involving Power processors and game controllers, said.
“Broadway” will be designed on a 90-nm SOI process, shipping from IBM’s East Fishkill, N.Y. facility. Nintendo’s Wii was originally expected to be the third next-generation games console to be introduced, following the Microsoft Xbox 360 and roughly about the same time as the Sony Playstation 3. Earlier this week, however, Sony said it would delay its console in Europe, because of a shortage of blue laser components. The Broadway chip, based on the Power architecture, will be sold in the “millions” to Nintendo, Martino said, and the company is currently satisfying its contractual obligations to Nintendo as far as the volume ramp is concerned. What is the semantic grid?