Inside the Silicon City exhibit:
“Good design is good business.”
Yep, there’s an art to reinventing how the world works for over a century.
9 years ago
“Thinking Blocks”
HOW Poster Design Awards,
Reader’s Choice nominees
IBM Designers Matthew C. Paul & Patrick Chew on design thinking:
“Thinking is often the hardest work of all. It is important that we embrace thinking as well as making. We challenge ourselves to design solutions that make sense at a 5th-grade level, and embrace the simple building blocks that make it all possible.”
9 years ago
Imagine having to navigate the world without your sense of sight. IBM Fellow and Inventor Chieko Asakawa has had to grapple with that almost her whole life. In her inspiring TED Talk, she explains how a new convergence of cognitive and mobile technologies is giving blind people new abilities to traverse and explore the world around them.
9 years ago
“I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.”
Benoît Mandelbrot
Fractals Discoverer
IBM Fellow Emeritus
9 years ago
“Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.”
Benoît Mandelbrot
Fractals Discoverer
IBM Fellow Emeritus
9 years ago
“The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as “chaos.”
Benoît Mandelbrot
Fractals Discoverer
IBM Fellow Emeritus
9 years ago
“My dream is to have a high-efficiency solar panel that can be rolled up and flattened out like a mat. Imagining a parking lot of cars covered with solar mats charging up their batteries all day. And when we need to drive the car, it is rolled up and is neatly put away. I think something like this will happen as technology progresses.”
INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Xiaoyan Shao
Solar Data Scientist
IBM Research
9 years ago
Just as innovation requires good science, making those innovations useful requires good design. Here’s how some of the right-brainers at IBM Design in Austin combined mind & marker to get those creative juices flowing.
9 years ago
“Invent something that is useful, and, well, that’s great. But invent something that is useful and fun … and you can retire early to the French Riviera.”
INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Bill Hymas
IBM Software Group, Europe
High Speed Internet Accelerator
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“The people who are saying it can’t be done should get out of the way of those doing it.”
INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Andy Stanford-Clark
Distinguished Engineer & Master Inventor
Chief Technologist for Smarter Energy
9 years ago
