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Patents
I discovered by accident today (I promise I was not doing a "vanity search") that Google now offers a way to search issued US patents.
Having found the site, I will admit that I keyed in my first and last
names and it gave me back a ton of hits. I then remembered that patents
carry my full name so I added my middle name to the search and was
impressed to see that it found almost all of my issued US patents (I
think I have about 77 now). I also discovered that some of my issued
patents have my name spelled wrong (Kevin instead of Kelvin) so a few
don't show up in the search on my actual name!
If you are curious, you can find my patents, courtesy of Google, here and here.
In case you are wondering (having looked at my search results), no, I
did not invent the system for organ placement during surgery!).
Anyway, if you have patents yourself or are just curious to see what you can discover I recommend doing a few searches.
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Jun 15 2009, 06:33:30 PM EDT
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The end of the Colorado Software Summit
Their words at http://www.softwaresummit.com/ say it much better than I ever could.
My favourite conference, bar none, where I have made so many great friends and had so many great technical discussions has become a victim of the economy.
I wish Wayne and Peggy Kovsky, who have run the conference with such love and passion for so many years all the very best in their future endeavours.
I feel honoured to call them my friends.
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Jun 09 2009, 10:40:29 AM EDT
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WS-Federation is an OASIS Standard
A few years ago, along with our partners, we presented to the World a roadmap
for building a secure web services infrastructure that could be used to
enable a large number of applications over the Web. The first standard
in the pack was WS-Security which enabled secure message exchanges
using a variety of existing security technologies. This was followed by
specs such as WS-Trust and WS-Secure conversation which built on
WS-Security to enable the exchange and brokering of security
credentials and the creation of long running secure exchanges. The
final part of the roadmap was WS-federation which describes how to use
the security roadmap to enable secure, federated environments over the
Web.
My congratulations to the chairs of the group, Mike McIntosh from IBM
and Chris Kaler from Microsoft and to all of the folks involved in the creation and standardization of
the spec.
You can read the formal OASIS announcement for more details.
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May 27 2009, 01:03:39 PM EDT
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SHARE in Denver (August 23 - 28)
The next SHARE conference will be in Denver the week of August 23rd to 28th. The call for papers just closed and the agenda is taking shape. It should be another great week. I'm working closely with my colleagues right now on the final agenda for the SOA Project. We had a great week in Austin last month and we're hoping to build on that for Denver. I hope we'll see some of you there!
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Apr 01 2009, 12:12:00 PM EDT
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Colorado Software Summit Call For Papers
The Colorado Software Summit conference has just issued a call for papers for the 2009 event which will be held in Keystone, Colorado the week of October 25th - 30th. If you have an interesting topic to discuss in the area of the Web,Programming and emerging technology you might seriously want to consider submitting a proposal. I have attended the event multiple times, often as a speaker, and it is always a fantastic (and yes exhausting) week of both education and camaraderie.
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Apr 01 2009, 11:35:31 AM EDT
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Spending the week at SHARE in Austin
I'm spending the week at the SHARE conference in Austin. As far as I know, SHARE has never been in Austin before. It's really nice to not have to fly anywhere to attend and instead be able to drive to the conference from my home about 30 miles North of here.
The keynote speaker this morning was Miles O'Brien (until recently of CNN). He gave a great talk about the negative impacts of technology on the environment (billions of old PCs in landfills in China as one example) and suggested ways that we in the IT field can turn things around and improve the situation going forward. This talk was very much in line with the IBM Smart Planet initiative which is great to see.
I had the pleasure of speaking right after Miles and got to chat with him for a few minutes before my talk. He seems like a really nice guy with a great sense of humour. I always enjoyed his broadcasting on CNN and will start following him on his blog now.
Anyway, I have sessions to go and chair now. SHARE is well and truly under way!
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Mar 02 2009, 03:28:13 PM EST
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SHARE in Austin next week
I will be speaking and chairing sessions at SHARE in Austin next week. If you are attending please stop by any of the sessions being put on by the SOA Project and say "Hi". I'm looking forward to the agenda we have put together for the project. We'll be covering everything from SOA, to Cloud to Web 2.0 to PHP to REST and the importance of standards. We have some great speakers coming in and we'll also be hosting a tour of the IBM campus (showing off our Green Data Center among other things).
I hope to see some of you during the week!
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Feb 25 2009, 04:04:22 PM EST
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Colorado Software Summit 2009 Announced
I was really excited to see the recent announcement that Colorado Software Summit is going to take place again this year. The last week of October already blocked on my calendar in the hope that I can be there. If you are a programmer and/or web developer who enjoys a cordial environment where you can meet and listen to really great people without any marketing "fluff" getting in the way this might be a conference for you. I have been a regular speaker at the event and also have learned a tremendous amount from the other folks there over the years.
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Feb 25 2009, 12:44:31 PM EST
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A few thoughts on my use of social networking
I try and keep my two blogs from overlapping. This one is where I try and discuss technical stuff and my personal blog is where I discuss things going on in my life outside of work (for the most part). However yesterday I posted a few observations on my use of social networking that I think is also of interest (I hope) to folks that follow me here.
I would be interested in feedback as to what other folks are using and why.
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Jan 30 2009, 11:09:46 AM EST
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Forrester: WS-Security Achieves Critical Mass Of User Adoption
I was pleased to come across this article today. As the co-Chair of the Technical Committee at OASIS responsible for creating the WS-Security standard I have always believed in the need for this type of message level security. I'm pleased to see that there is a feeling that adoption of the standard is now reaching critical mass.
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Jan 20 2009, 12:40:49 AM EST
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Best wishes to all in 2009
I took most of December off to try and finally get my strength back after spending half of 2008 undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer. Thankfully I am still around as we enter 2009.
It's back to work for me on January 5th. I do feel somewhat refreshed after my nice break.
I plan to start posting regularly here on technical topics once the work year gets underway.
Here's to a great 2009 to all who may come across this posting (and even those who don't!)
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Jan 03 2009, 02:47:07 PM EST
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CIO Magazine: 7 Things IT Managers Should Know About Lotus Notes
I enjoyed reading this piece by Thomas Duff in CIO Magazine on Lotus Notes. A lot of people think of Notes as just an e-mail client when it is really so much more.
Here's the link to the article.
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Dec 09 2008, 01:09:54 PM EST
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Blogging less and Tweeting more
Lately I have found that I am updating my status on Twitter (I'm @gfxman) and on Facebook more and I am updating both my personal and work blogs (this one) quite a bit less. Several of my friends and colleagues seem to be observing the same phenomenon...so is this the end of blogging as we know it? I actually hope not as I enjoy going back to my blog and reading what I was doing a year or so ago. I need to find some time over the next few days to get both this blog and my personal one up to date.
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Dec 02 2008, 11:48:27 PM EST
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A week in the virtual World
Last week we held a large conference that brought together many of our top technical leaders from around the planet. What made this event different was that no one got on a plane, no one got in a car, no one stayed at a hotel, in fact I did part of the meeting in my pajamas! No the IBM dress code has not hit an all time low, we of course, held a "virtual meeting". We used a large number of collaboration tools to enable everyone to meet. One of the tools we used was Second Life. Several months ago I had been quite active in Second Life but over time got distracted by other things - so this was a second go at it for me. Back then Second Life was missing one key feature - voice support. It has that now and (so long as you have a headset to avoid microphone feedback) it seems to work pretty well. Talking to people is way better than typing text messages. I am a self confessed technology geek and also a video gamer so Second Life feels natural to me. For some of my colleagues it perhaps did not feel so natural but, by the end of the multi day meeting I think many of them were starting to see the value that a well run virtual meeting can offer. Given we could not all be in the same place at the same time in the physical World, I enjoyed being able to "run into" colleagues from far away countries and have a casual chat. Much the same way as I would have at a "real" meeting. What I also really liked about doing the meeting in Second Life was that I could fly around (wish I could do this in the real World) from each of the running-in-parallel presentations and drop in on them, visit for a while, and then go to the next one. At the end of the meeting we held a large virtual party and said our goodbyes. It's odd, but I felt the same sensation of sadness I often feel at a real meeting when saying goodbye to colleagues that I only see occasionally.
If I can find the time I will try and write a longer posting about what worked and what didn't but for now, I was sufficiently energized by the meeting last week that I now want to start thinking about how we can apply these tools to the smaller but more regular meetings I have in my "day job".
Maybe a future standards committee meeting could be held in the virtual World? Food for thought anyway.
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Nov 17 2008, 02:32:16 PM EST
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Building a "Smarter Planet"
IBM CEO Sam Palmisano made a significant speech today in which he outlined
ideas for a Smart Planet. You can read the transcript of his remarks and a
lot more here
As someone who very much hopes we can help the planet through effective use of
IT - I find this a very encouraging initiative.
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Nov 06 2008, 02:07:24 PM EST
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