Japan 2004 – Day 3 (Visiting IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory)
IBM Research is an amazing organization and visiting it’s labs over the years was always a great experience. IBM’s elite research organization includes roughly 3,000 of the world’s brightest at eight labs in Almaden, Austin, China, Israel, India, Tokyo, Yorktown Heights (NY), and Zurich. Research is conducted in all areas of information technology, from physics […]
Japan 2004 – Day 3 (Traveling to Yamato by car)
After visiting the two conferences and then calling home with Net2Phone VoIP (voice over the Internet) from my ThinkPad, I met Megumi Okamoto (Director for the World Expo Unit of IDG Japan, Inc.), who graciously offered to drive me to Yamato for my visit at the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory. Meg has a very nice […]
Japan 2004 – Day 2 (The Gala and The Hanezawa Garden)
Japanese people are continually showing their respect for others. Japan Telecom employees did this on a grand scale on Tuesday evening. There have been some changes in ownership of the company and a new president was to be introduced this evening to 1,600 of the company’s customers and business partners. I was fortunate to be […]
Japan Update
Part 2 was just posted and there are another half dozen or so installments coming. Please ignore the postings for days 3-5 as they are preliminary copies of prior postings. I will be updating them over the weekend. The photo gallery is updated with captions and you can find the latest here.
Japan 2004 – Day 2 (Conferences, Hakozaki, and The Gala)
There are 123 million people in Japan and ten percent of them live in one city — Tokyo. It is a magnificent place. Tokyo has many sections like all major cities of the world. My stay for the first two days of the trip was in Shinjuku. Homebase was at the Century Hyatt, nestled among […]
