One of the Faces of the Smarter Planet campaign

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To make true advances in any industry or field requires forward thinking—as well as industry insight and experience. It can't be done just by packaging a bag of piece parts and putting a new label on it. But forward thinkers are putting smarter, more powerful technology to uses that were once unimaginable -- either in scale or in progress.

I am pleased that IBM has honored me with recognition as a "forward thinker" on the corporate-wide [IBM Smarter Planet for Smarter IT systems and Infrastructure]. This is quite an honor, being one of the "faces" of IBM's Smarter Planet campaign. I am joined by my esteemed colleagues: [Brian Sanders], [Steve Will], [Willie Favero], and [Kathleen Holm].

The graphics developed for the IBM Smarter Planet vision are interesting. This one for Infrastructure includes images relating to public utilities, like gas, water and electricity, clouds representing cloud computing, green forests representing the need for energy efficiency and reducing carbon footprint to fight global warming, roads, representing the intricate transportation and traffic systems, highways and city streets that connect us all together, and a printed circuit board, representing the Information Technology that makes all of this possible.

Ironically, I didn't even know I made the final cut until I got three, yes three, separate requests for interviews about it. I already reached the "million hits" milestone.  Other people track these things for me, so it will be interesting how much additional traffic my latest [15 minutes of fame] will generate.

Infrastructure is just one of the 25 different areas that IBM's vision for a Smarter Planet is trying to address, including the need for smarter buildings, smarter cities, smarter transportation systems, smarter energy grids, smarter healthcare and public safety, and smarter governments.

To learn more, visit the [Smarter Planet overview] landing page. Together, we can build a smarter planet!

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