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At the next DACS meeting, October 5th, the main presentation will be on the topic of “Accelerating the adoption of new IT applications at IBM.” As one DACS officer put it, a little bit out of the beaten path but however an attention-grabber. The speaker will be William C. Sweeney, who is IBM Program Director of Internet Technology. In that capacity Bill “manages a team with a mission to accelerate the adoption of Internet technologies inside IBM by identifying promising new technologies, establishing prototypes and moving these prototypes into production.” Bill Sweeney says that he “will provide an overview and demonstration of several applications his team is working on at IBM” and “Applications to be discussed include a broadcast/instant messaging based collaboration application and a grid computing application.” Before working in his current position, Bill was the Project Executive for a strategic outsourcing contract encompassing data center, application services, helpdesk, and deskside support. Bill has also held network services planning and strategy assignments in Advantis, the U.S. provider of the IBM Global Network. Bill was part of the team that launched IBM's Internet services including dial, leased line, web hosting and custom solutions.” Bill joined IBM in 1979 as a design engineer working on the 3090 high-end multiprocessor, and since then has worked on various aspects of computer hardware and software development and network services. He has also led efforts to define the market opportunity and services for IP telephony, video conferencing and other emerging technologies. If would be interesting to find out what is in the work for instant messaging and broadcast and what the future hold for those technologies. The October 5th meeting will hopefully bring some insights. The meeting will be held at the Danbury Hospital Auditorium starting at 7.00 p.m. with a question and answer session, followed by short club announcements. The main presentation will be held at 8.00 p.m. For additional details and direction to the Auditorium, please check Danbury Area Computer Society web site at www.dacs.org. |
| Marlène Gaberel is a DACS board member and VP for Public Relations. You can e-mail her at marlene_gaberel@yahoo.com. |
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