Women in Technology: Consider Joining IBM

Ready to make a difference? Then join the other exceptional women making a difference at IBM.

Are you looking for a new challenge with a progressive organization that values and rewards collaboration, innovation and creativity? If you’re ready to focus on today’s most exciting technologies — like Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud — then you can make a difference at IBM.

Today, women represent approximately 30 percent of IBM employees worldwide. And more than 22% of our global executive population is made up of women, two-thirds of whom are working mothers. Women have been contributing to the advancement of information technology for almost as long as the company has been in existence – are you ready to join them?

Why Work at IBM?

 

Ready to see what’s available and apply? See Job Opportunities for Women in Technology.

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• IBM CEO Virginia Rometty #15 of 100 Women Who Run The World (Forbes)
• IBM Vice President, Gill Zhou, Is a Model for Working Women in China
• Some Wise Words for Your Career, Life and Destiny, from Rebecca Munyuki, IBM South Africa
• IBM’s Pioneering Woman and 1st Executive:  Anne Van Vechten (Part 1), (Part 2)
• IBM Research Chief Scientist for Social Business, Irene Greif, Wins Technical Leadership Award
• Middle East and Africa Inspirational IBMers – Natasha Pillay-Bemath
• IBM Video Series Celebrates International Women’s Day

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Check out these hot IBM jobs today!

- Posted by Regan Kelly and Julie Yamamoto

What Does Big Data Have To Do with Tiny Atoms?

By now, you’ve probably seen the landmark IBM achievement that is “A Boy and His Atom” – the world’s smallest film – that was made by moving atoms with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

See the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film:

In this article from smartplanet.com, IBM Research Scientist Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, ties it all together by explaining what Big Data has to do with tiny atoms and the world’s tiniest film.

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Related:

What is Big Data?

Video: A Boy and His Atom: How It Was Made

Greater IBM, what did you think of this IBM Expertise article, part of our May series on emerging trends? Let us know in the Leave a Reply field below.

- Posted by Regan Kelly

IBM-Sponsored “City Forward” Site Wins a Webby Award for Corporate Social Responsibility

City Forward, a free IBM-sponsored website that city leaders and the general public can use to compare and consolidate multiple data sources for cities around the world, has won the 2013 Corporate Social Responsibility “Webby Award” from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).

Project manager Gina Cardosi

At Citizen IBM, Certified Project Manager Gina Cardosi (who worked on City Forward) writes about the genesis of the project, its use of open big data, and why City Forward is critical to this era of mobile computing, cloud computing, data analytics and the global socialization of information. Read more. 

Related:

The Webby Awards: Honoring the Best of the Web

The IADAS

Watson at Your Service: IBM Unveils the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor

Watson will now be taking your calls: the IBM Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer is getting a job in customer service.

IBM has unveiled the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, which uses cloud-delivered mobile and online chat technology to assist customers anytime and anywhere.  (Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM)

The IBM Watson team is pleased to announce the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, designed to revolutionize how companies and their customers interact with each other over the lifetime of their relationships.

The IBM Watson Engagement Advisor is a smart assistant whose services can be used in many industries, especially those that receive many customer service calls, including retailing, banking, insurance and telecommunications. It will help customer service agents and customers get the answers to their questions via an “Ask Watson” feature available through mobile devices, online chat sessions, email, and other means.

The Watson Engagement Advisor will be able to quickly address customers’ questions, offer advice to guide purchasing decisions, and troubleshoot problems. In other words, when you need customer service, you might soon be interacting with Watson.

Read more on this new era of computing.

More:

Video: Announcing the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor

.PDF: IBM Watson Engagement Advisor – Transforming the way people and organizations interact over the lifetime of their relationship

Learn more about Watson

Follow Watson on Facebook

For more insights on this story, please visit the Smarter Planet Blog

Learn more about Smarter Commerce

Join the conversation about Watson by including the hashtag #ibmwatson

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- Posted by Regan Kelly

IBM’s Ginni Rometty Reveals Watson’s Future

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty (photo, Fortune Magazine)

In this interview from Fortune Magazine, IBM’s Ginni Rometty reveals what’s next for the company’s talking supercomputer Watson, including its future service.

In addition, she discusses what it means for IBM to be an innovation company at a scale of more than 400,000 employees, the five key pieces of continuous transformation, and more.

Fortune senior writer Jessi Hempel interviewed the IBM CEO last week at the National Venture Capital Association’s 40th anniversary conference, VentureScape.

Read the interview.

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- Posted by Regan Kelly   This post is part of The Greater IBM Connection’s May 2013 theme of emerging trends.

Watson Goes to Washington, Shows Off Latest Health-Care Work to Lawmakers

- by Emi Kolawole, in The Washington Post

IBM supercomputer Watson was in Washington, D.C. late last week to show lawmakers what it’s learned about health care. The Watson team has been collaborating with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and health-care insurance provider Well Point to teach Watson everything there is to know in the medical world.

Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), right, receives a demonstration from IBM’s Michael Holmes of new proposed capabilities for the Watson supercomputer on Capitol Hill Thursday, May 16, 2013. (photo, Emi Kolawole)

Members of the team were in Washington to showcase some of the supercomputer’s new health-care related features, including the ability to ingest patients’ medical information and synthesize thousands of medical journals and other reference materials along with a patient’s preferences to recommend treatment options.

Watson, IBM representatives made sure to emphasize, does not offer do-this-not-that instructions to doctors or diagnose patients on its own. Get the full story.

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Related:

Learn how Watson can help solve the health care challenge

IBM Watson for Health Care: The Voice of the Doctor (video)

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Touts Watson, New ‘Golden Era of Technology’

Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, is about to become an advisor to research-oriented industries, says IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty

Speaking in San Francisco this week to the annual meeting of the National Venture Capital Association, she said that Watson is part of a third era of technology, in which computers learn.

In fact, given today’s confluence of cloud, mobile, social and big data technologies, future historians may regard this era as “a golden era of technology,” she said, because the vast amount of information being generated will change how individuals make decisions and how companies work. Read what else she had to say, in this article by Deborah Gage at The Wall Street Journal.

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What did you think of this article and what’s next for Watson? Let us know in the Leave a Reply field below.

The Center for CIO Leadership Launches New Blog

The Center for CIO Leadership is an international, cross-industry peer community solely focused on the advancement of business competencies for technology professionals through peer insights and connections, education, and research. It provides CIOs from around the world with access to a global community of academic and practitioner experts, peer CIOs, and business leaders with a common goal of advancing the CIO profession and providing professional development.

And now it has its own brand new blog – check it out!.

Focused on advancing the CIO profession through global thought leadership, research, education, and outreach, the Center develops practical insights, sponsors a global learning community, promotes peer-to-peer mentoring, and fosters greater understanding of IT among business leaders and executive influencers. It was founded by IBM to achieve these goals as an open, collaborative network of executives and institutions from around the world. The world’s leading CIOs are actively taking a role to shape their future in this unique, collaborative community. Explore the new blog!

And then let us know what you think, in the Leave a Reply field.

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The CIO Leadership and Innovation

The CIO Innovation Lab

Connect:

• Join The Center for CIO Leadership group on LinkedIn
• Follow on Twitter
• Watch related videos on YouTube

- Posted by Regan Kelly. This post is part of our theme of Emerging Trends for the month of May, 2013.

IBM’s Culture of Service: Finding Time to Participate

The author with her protégé Tamara, a fourth-grader in Orlando.

In this essay at Citizen IBM, IBMer Kathy Pham shares what she’s learned about finding the time to forge connection and community while spending most of her weekdays traveling as an IBM “road warrior”.

See how Kathy – a Business Analytics and Optimization Senior Consultant with IBM Global Business Services – navigates the mobile lifestyle while still finding the time to be engaged in personally fulfilling projects. She’s happy to be part of a company that provides “so many unique opportunities for service,” said Kathy. Find out how she does it.

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Related:

IBM: A Culture of Service

• IBM On Demand Community
• IBM Community Grants
• Corporate Responsibility Must Be Integral to Corporate Culture
• Applying Technology and Expertise to Global Societal Problems
• Skills-Based Volunteering Builds Personal and Professional Relationships

Greater IBMers, whether or not you are a current IBMer, how do you participate? Tell us YOUR story in the Leave a Reply field.

- Posted by Regan Kelly

Kenya News: IBM Opens Innovation Centre

- from IT News Africa

As part of its ongoing expansion in Africa, IBM has opened its first IBM Innovation Center in East Africa. Located in Nairobi, Kenya, the center will help fuel growth and innovation in the region. It is co-located with a new IBM Client Center that brings IBM’s expertise to clients in the region.

The new IBM Innovation Center aims to nurture and grow regional IT innovation and help startups and new business IT solutions get to market faster. Read more.

(Image source: PR Newswire)

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Related:

IT in Africa, the Next Frontier – IBM Is Leading the Way

A Smarter Planet: How to Build Innovation Ecosystems

 

- Posted by Regan Kelly