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May 31 2011, 11:03 AM
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Connie Smallwood
I recently attended the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards , which honors women making significant contributions to technology. As I sat in the audience with other CA Technologies colleagues, I was not only impressed by these women’s technical achievements and innovation, but more importantly, by their impact on society. I was – all at once – proud, amazed, humbled and inspired. Take Chieko Asakawa from IBM Research. Becoming blind as a teen did not deter her from pursuing her passion in technology. Her research in accessibility has paved the way for those who are visually impaired and others with disabilities, allowing them to take advantage of all that the Internet has to offer. Then, there is Karen Panetta from Tufts University....
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By: Connie Smallwood
Connie Smallwood is VP of Innovation and University Programs for CA Technologies. She leads and manages the innovation and thought leadership initiatives within the company. These include CA Technologies innovation and idea management programs, patent program, technical recognition events, and employee...
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May 24 2011, 01:37 PM
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Maria Velez-Rojas
Visualization is more than just a technology that creates images. It is a complex network of interconnected technologies. The old cliché, “a picture is worth a thousand words” implies that visualizations are graphical representations of data designed to present large quantities of information at a glance and to replace text-based displays. Colin Ware , one of the leading experts in information visualization, describes visualizations as a complex process in which the human viewer interacts with technology elements, such as data storage, data transformation processes and graphic engines. Figure 1. The diagram of the process of visualization according to Colin Ware. Source: http://www.infovis.net Let’s consider the example of topology visualizations...
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By: Maria Velez-Rojas
Dr. Maria Velez-Rojas is a Research Staff Member with CA Labs and is based in San Francisco, California. She joined CA Labs in 2010. Her current research focus is on the design of usable and efficient visualization techniques of complex Information Technology environments.
In addition to her research...
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May 10 2011, 10:03 AM
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Marvin Waschke
Ray Ozzie is an innovator, the kind who inspires awe. He worked on the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc, and he led the development of Lotus Notes. He has been described as one of the greatest programmers in the world. He succeeded Bill Gates as Chief Software Architect of Microsoft. He was a visionary who saw the importance of cloud computing before it was generally acknowledged. He was thinking about the implications of cloud computing when most of us in IT still thought of “cloud” as only a graphic for a WAN. What interests me is how he did it. What makes Ray Ozzie smarter than the rest of us? And even more important, can we get his recipe for genius and rub some on our foreheads? A few days ago, I stumbled on Ozzie’s two long emails to Microsoft...
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By: Marvin Waschke
Marv Waschke is a senior principal architect at CA Technologies. He has represented CA Technologies in several standards groups including the Cloud Management Working Group and Configuration Management Database Federation working groups of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). He is also a member...
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