Session on SSME by Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director-IBM Research

We take pleasure in inviting you for a session on SSME (Services Sciences, Management and Engineering) by Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director , IBM Research.

Date: 29th Jan
Venue: Dome 2
Time: 5.00 p.mThe schedule for the session is as follows:

1) Lecture by Dr. Jim Spohrer on Business & Socio Economic Value of SSME to ALL students and faculty members - 30 mins.
2) Proposal by Jim, Guru and Zaheer to launch and exclusive IBM Service Business Simulation Center at SPJIMR to the Executive and Academic Advisory Board of SP Jain - 40 mins.
3) Defining the scope and activities of the exclusive IBM-SPJIMR Service Business Simulation Center with Jim, Guru and the Executive and Academics Board - 20 mins.
4) Presentation of IBM SSME Education Materials and Software Tools under Academic Initiative License by Zaheer to the SP Jain Institute - 10 mins.

Profile of Dr. Jim Spohrer

CAREER HISTORY

IBM, San Jose, California (1998 - Present)

Director, Almaden Services Research (2003-Present)
- Established first services research group in IBM Research, and service science discipline
- Research Division Accomplishments (>$10M impact): CBM, IDG, BIW, EUS, SSME projects

CTO, IBM Venture Capital Relations Group (2000-2003)
- Co-founded group to establish win-win relationships with VCs, entrepreneurs, and IBM
Global Services

Functional Manager, Computer Science Foundations (1999-2000)
- Managed advanced user experience design group (HCI) as well as theory of computation
group (Theory)

Manager, USER Experience (HCI) Group (1998-1999)
- Managed web services, user-aware and context-aware information environments
(InformationInPlaces)

Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA (1989 - 1998)

DEST, Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, and Technologist (1996- 1998)
- Conceived and led Educational Object Economy (EOE) and WorldBoard initiatives

Program Manager, Authoring Tools & Titles (1993 - 1995)
- Managed authoring tools development, including SK8, Squeak, NSF/DARPA East-West
Consortium

Principal Scientist/Project Manager, End User Programming (1991 - 1992)
- Managed an co-invented KidSim/Cocoa

Senior Scientist, Business Learning Research (1989 - 1990)
- Developed intelligent multimedia learning systems: MrFixit (Boeing) and Role’m (Apple
Learning)

Verbex: Exxon Enterprises, Bedford, MA (1978 - 1982)

Senior Research Scientist (1978-1982)
- Speech recognition HW/SW based on Markov models of human speech

Cheers,
PRCom

Virginia Tech Contact Session - Dr. Steven D. Sheetz

We take great pleasure in welcoming Dr. Steven D. Sheetz.
Dr. Sheetz is an associate professor in ACIS department of Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech. He will be here along with us from January 28th to February 1st, 2008. He would be teaching " Advanced Database Management Systems " to the participants of PGDSM-MIT04.
His presence will indeed be a great opportunity for all participants of SPJIMR to interact and gain insight into his areas of expertise.