A Q&A with IBM Director of Global University Programs Jim Spohrer
Jim Spohrer: In the past ten years, I've been in IBM Research, then CTO of IBM Venture Capital Group, then back to Research to start the first Service Research group--most people do not know that over 60 percent of IBM revenue comes from our technology and business service groups. And now, I'm happy to be part of Global University Programs working on topics from nanotechnology, to mainframe computers, to cloud computing, to cell chip architectures... and also SSME and Smarter Planet, which are continuations of the service research work. IBM has offered terrific opportunities to learn, especially in a world that is changing as rapidly as ours through technological change, and social changes like globalization.