David Cohn is Director, Business Informatics at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. He supervises a research team focused on modeling, transforming and integrating information and business structures for on demand solutions. He directs IBM's worldwide research strategy in support of on Business Design & Implementation.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Cohn was Director of IBM's Austin Research Laboratory which focuses on exploratory VLSI design, electronic CAD tools and high-productivity system design and is home of IBM's Low-Power Initiative. He also served as Director, Strategic Projects at Armonk assisting the Chairman and corporate executives in formulating and assessing IBM's worldwide business strategy. Before joining IBM, he was Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame.
David Cohn received his undergraduate and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
A technical point. Classically, data has been a stable commodity. You do a transaction at the bank, you deposit, you withdraw, you do those once a week, that data is pretty stable and can be viewed as a fixed amount of information. This is the way the world has generally worked. Classically, fina...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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