Chi mi conosce un po', mi ha letto qualche volta e mi scrive puntualmente sa che sono molto sensibile all'argomento ed alle problematiche legate all'infanzia. Per questo motivo, non ho esitato a buttarmi in questa campagna a sostegno del Pesciolino Rosso, il tempo per le famiglie di Pavia, cui sia... Continue reading

Per info: www.azzurro.it Ferma la violenza sui bambini con Telefono Azzurro from Telefono Azzurro on Vimeo. Continue reading

Questa volta il numero 100 è legato al compleanno del mio nonno Paolo...!!! Ieri abbiamo festeggiato tutti insieme i sui 100 anni... 100 anni di storie e di affetto.... Ti abbiamo messo sul giornale !!! ma sopratutto ti vogliamo un mondo di bene .... Continue reading

Corporate Service Corps The IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program was launched in 2008 to create leadership development opportunities for IBMers while delivering expertise-based service for the communities and organizations in emerging markets. To date 1000 IBMers have participated in CSC projects that tackle issues from local economic development, entrepreneurship,... Continue reading

The IBM Punched Card From the beginning of tabulation, stiff rectangular cards punched with holes became the way data was recorded and stored. As IBM grew to dominate data processing by the 1920s, its cards—which only worked on IBM machines and vice-versa—became the global industry standard. In 1928, IBM improved... Continue reading

The First Corporate Pure Science Research Laboratory “Think” was at the core of Watson’s being. In 1944, he established the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University, the first corporate laboratory dedicated to pure scientific research. There, a handful of scientists used machines previously dedicated to accounting to investigate everything... Continue reading

DRAM The Invention of On-Demand Data In the mid-1960s, IBM researcher Bob Dennard developed the world’s first one-transistor memory, calling it “dynamic random access memory,” or DRAM. Finally, mainframes could be outfitted with short-term memory to act as a buffer to the data stored on disk drives. The memory chips... Continue reading

Automated Test Scoring IBM pioneered the measurement of academic performance with 1937’s IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine. This machine was able to score tests in less time than it took to manually mark the answer sheet, and was many times more accurate. Its innovative pencil-mark sensing technology gave rise to... Continue reading

Scanning Tunneling Microscope The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) revolutionized our ability to manipulate solid surfaces the size of atoms. Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of IBM’s Zurich Research Center were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the STM. And the STM, in turn, has led to other... Continue reading

System 360 From Computers to Computer Systems Few products in history have had the massive impact that the IBM System/360 has had—on technology, on the way the world works, or on the organization that created them. The System/360 ushered in the era of computer compatibility—for the first time allowing models... Continue reading

... Alice in una pizzeria take away mentre addenta una pizza margherita mentre dei ragazzi di fianco fanno un po' di casino e dicono parole non proprio ripetibili... Papi, hanno detto mutanda. Vero che non si dice mutanda? Nenache patatina e neanche pisellino. Vuol dire che sono dei monelli.... ....... Continue reading

... Alice prima di addormentarsi ... Papi, un giorno fai le ferie? Così faccio le ferie anche io e poi facciamo i puzzle delle principesse, il memory e quelle robe lì.... Continue reading

The Optimization of Global Railways IBM’s first customer in Italy, the Italian state-owned Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian Railways) turned to IBM in 1928 to automate its administrative processes. The result was an inventory of spare parts that drastically reduced waste and statistical traffic analysis that helped to schedule and allocate... Continue reading

A Computer Called Watson IBM’s latest computer, code-named “Watson” leverages the leading edge Question-Answering technology, allowing the computer to process and understand natural language. It incorporates massively parallel analytical capabilities to emulate the human mind’s ability to understand the actual meaning behind words, distinguish between relevant and irrelevant content, and... Continue reading

Rise of the Internet In 1987, IBM, working with the U.S. National Science Foundation and our partners at MCI and Merit designed a new high-speed National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) to connect US universities and 6 US-based supercomputer centers. The NSFNET greatly increased the capacity of the Internet (increasing the... Continue reading

RAMAC The First Magnetic Hard Disk The world’s first hard disk drive was the size of two kitchen refrigerators set side by side. It contained 24 disks spinning at 1,200 revolutions per minute, supplying data at 100,000 bits per second. It was the IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting... Continue reading

Excimer Laser Surgery In 1981, three IBM scientists—Rangaswamy Srinivasan, James Wynne and Samuel Blum—discovered how the newly invented excimer laser could remove specific human tissue without harming the surrounding area and do so on an extremely minute scale—a process that became the foundation for LASIK and PRK surgery. The painless... Continue reading

Magnetic Stripe Technology In 1969, IBM engineer Forrest Parry had a problem. He was trying to affix a strip of magnetized tape with a piece of plastic to create an identity card for the CIA, but he was struggling to combine the two components. When he mentioned the problem to... Continue reading

... e questa è uno dei miei cult, perchè la scena di Igor e del dr. "Frankenstin" è memorabile; però anche questo video di uno stadio allagato dalla pioggia in Brasile non è male. Il bello è che sugli spalti nuotano davvero ! Continue reading

The First Salaried Workforce Thomas Watson Sr. always believed in making his workers feel dignified. In 1934, he bucked a trend toward paying factory workers in piecework, instead paying by the hour. Continuing the tradition, in 1958 IBM became the first industrial organization to place all regular, hourly-rated domestic employees... Continue reading

Optimizing the Food Supply IBM worked with the Danish government in 1988 to create a nationwide cattle registry. This National Cattle Database collected and managed a breadth of information on 1.2 million bovine animals—including yield, breeding abilities, herdbook, medical history and even udder size and shape. The database has enabled... Continue reading