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TUESDAY April 21, 2009
SF Communications? Chapter
Speaker: Lennart Frantzell, Sr. Consultant, Autonomic Computing, IBM
Time: Presentation at 6:30 PM
Cost: none
Place: California Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco (free on-street parking after 6 PM)
RSVP: by email to Tim Ryan, timryan@ieee.org
Web: www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/san_francisco/comsoc

As the world becomes more and more global, integrated and “flat”, it is also facing an array of problems: a financial crisis, climate disruption, energy geopolitics, food supply hazards etc. ? This is coinciding with technological innovations such as the following developments that can assist in resolving these problems:?

·? ? ? ? ? The world is becoming instrumented. ? By 2010, there will be a billion transistors per human, each one costing one ten-millionth of a cent.

·? ? ? ? ? The world is becoming interconnected. ? With a trillion networked things â?? cars, roadways, pipelines, appliances, pharmaceuticals and even livestock â?? the amount of information created by those interactions grows exponentially.

·? ? ? ? ? All things are becoming intelligent. ? Algorithms and powerful systems can analyze and turn those mountains of data into actual decisions and actions that make the world work better. Smarter.? ? ? ?

IBM is attempting to use modern IT-technology to tackle many of the world’s problems. ? In this presentation, Lennart Frantzell will talk about IBM‘s global Smarter Planet initiative and some of the exciting technologies that IBM is leveraging in its quest to make the world a smarter place.