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