How Much Water Does it Take to Make Your Blue Jeans?
Question: What do The Weather Channel, 13,000 pounds of ice, and a latte have in common? Answer: A #KnowTheCost installation in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park designed to show the water cost of everyday items we use. A quantity of water most people cannot fully comprehend; hence, all that ice. To provide the full scope of the amount […]
The Apollo 11 Lessons We Live by Today
In 1969, more than 4,000 IBMers worked alongside NASA to land Apollo 11 on the moon. And for each day of the many months they worked writing code, programming computers and running simulations, they never stopped thinking: What else could we do? What contingency can we plan for? What are we forgetting? In fact, it […]
IBM & NASA: Working Side-by-Side to Land on the Moon
This Saturday, July 20th, is the 50th anniversary of one of humanity’s greatest technological achievements: landing people on the Moon, and subsequently returning them safely to Earth. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy challenged Americans to reach the Moon by the end of the decade, and in 1969 an extraordinary collaboration between the public and […]
Q&A: IBM’s Landmark Acquisition of Red Hat
Arvind Krishna, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and Paul Cormier, Red Hat Executive Vice President and President, Products and Technologies discuss the landmark acquisition. How will IBM and Red Hat benefit from joining forces? Paul: Red Hat is an enterprise software company with an open source development model. A fundamental tenet […]