Friday, July 14, 2006

 

Job Posting: Services Computing at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

IBM Research is seeking outstanding Services Computing researchers to help us advance the state of the art and advance services innovation research and IBM's technology in Services Computing (http://www.research.ibm.com/services). We are interested in enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals with a PhD or equivalent in computer science or related disciplines. Successful candidates will be expected to help define and lead research projects from SOA and Web Services, SOA solution and services design, business transformation, business process modeling, monitoring & management to the realization leveraging the advanced modular SOA infrastrutures and tools.

Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between Business Services and IT Services. The underneath breaking technology suite includes Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA), business consulting methodology and utilities, business process modeling, transformation and integration. This scope of Services Computing covers the whole lifecycle of services innovation research that includes business compoentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services montoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.

IBM Research is extending its distinguished history in Services Computing, and the related areas of service-oriented business consulting, modeling, transformation, execution, monitoring and management. IBM researchers have been making foundational contributions in Web services standards, web services hub framework, federated web services discovery, semantic web services, business performance management, SLA management, software as a service, services as software, dynamic web services composition, extended business collaboration, business process and workflow management, business transformation solutions, component business model and SOA, multi-channel e-commerce architecture, access control and security, industry solution frameworks, and industry standards. IBM researchers have also been actively working with the worldwide research communities to help define the research directions of Services Computing. IBM's Services Science, Management, and Engineering (SSME) academic initiative is supported by Services Computing discipline within IBM Research.

Please send resume to LJ Zhang at zhanglj@us.ibm.com with subject "Services Computing Job Posting". Thank you very much.

Best Regards,
LJ
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Liang-Jie (LJ) Zhang (Ph.D.)
Research Staff Member, SOA Services
Chair, Services Computing PIC, IBM Research
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR), EI Compendex
19 SKYLINE DRIVE, HAWTHORNE, NY 10532
Tel: 914-784-6132 (NEW) Email: zhanglj@us.ibm.com
"Innovation That Matters"

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

 

EarthDesk replaces your static wallpaper with a photo-realistic Sun image

Dear Sir/Madam,

Xeric Design, Ltd. is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
EarthDesk 3.5, the real-time dynamic desktop map, for MS Windows. We hope you
will consider sharing this information with your readers by reviewing the
product in MP2K.

EarthDesk replaces your static wallpaper with a photo-realistic image of the
Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination as well as real-time
global cloud coverage (hurricanes, storms, and worldwide weather systems) on
your Windows desktop.

The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated
while you work. Unlike a screen saver, which only appears when your system is
idle, EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as Windows
wallpaper.

New in version 3.5:

- Proxy authorization support for cloud image downloads.
- Added a cloud download progress indicator.
- EarthDesk no longer renders its image while a screen saver is active.
- EarthDesk does not render during inactive XP sessions.
- Political map updated to recognize the independence of Montenegro.
- Cloud images are now date-verified to be newer than the previous image.

EarthDesk is the only application of its kind to support accurate moonlight,
multiple monitors, eleven different map projections, as well as political and
satellite views.

EarthDesk requires Windows 2000, XP Home or XP Professional and QuickTime
6.5.2 or newer. Single user copies may be purchased online for $19.95.

For more information and to download an evaluation version, please visit our
website at: http://www.xericdesign.com.

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Xeric Design, based in Incline Village, Nevada, is a leader in global time and
mapping software. Its flagship product, EarthDesk, is enjoyed by users in more
than 100 countries.

Editorial Review copies and high resolution screenshots are available to
qualified persons upon request.

Xeric Design, Ltd.
264 Village Blvd., Suite 201
Incline Village, NV 89451
U.S.A.

Tel: +1-775-832-5953
Fax: +1-775-832-5810

Email: info@xericdesign.com
Website: http://www.xericdesign.com

Thank you,

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Trygve H. Inda | Xeric Design, Ltd.
President & CEO | a software development company

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