The IBM Personal Transport (PT) comes with LuxeDrive technology, freeing you to take your hands off the wheel and THINK. Its advanced Watson AI learns your routes and preferences, delivering a safe, efficient journey every time. With its powerful Daystrom electric engine and smooth Selectric drivetrain, the PT glides…
Computers work with text by encoding characters in an alphabet as numbers. There are several natural questions when considering character encoding: What alphabet would we like to encode? Do we care about things like lowercase vs uppercase? Which number should represent which character? During the 1950s, computer…
On April 7, 1964, Tom Watson Jr. stood at the front of a conference room in IBM's Poughkeepsie, NY research lab. Looking beyond the podium and out into the audience, Watson saw two hundred influential writers and editors belonging to the 1960s tech cognoscenti. Looking a little closer, he saw a series of television…
A few months ago, IBM slapped me on the wrist. No, this wasn’t really physical punishment or like hazing like at the Military Academy . Rather, it was a Notes Inbox slap named Action Required: Hercules Detection Report . It turns out that the CIO’s office had scanned my BYOD Macbook Air , and I was busted for breaking…
Today is December 1, 2013. Today I turn twenty-eight years old. Today is also approximately the ten year anniversary of the most interesting "birthday party" I've ever been to. As a millennial mainframer, I've occasionally had instances where I've figuratively considered my nuts in a vice (like last week, when I ran…
Mac 3270? Water and Vinegar? How Mainframers began to use Macs It may seem strange to think that users, application developers, and systems programmers of IBM mainframes may use a Mac 3270 solution for serious work. Indeed, in the 1980s and early 1990s, much of the tech world was captivated by the battle between Big…
Despite derision as a dinosaur doomed to gradual extinction, a recent breakthrough in mainframe technology has the potential to transform the world of modern data centers. On July 22, 2010, IBM released the zEnterprise, a product that combines mainframe and distributed computing environments into what Rod Atkins,…