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IBM-MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Innovation Lecture Series: Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges
Engineering Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges is a seminar series co-sponsored by IBM and MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD). Each seminar will show
how today's leaders and practitioners are using engineering systems and service science
approaches to address complex problems. Drawing from real-life examples, the series will explain how these approaches were applied
at IBM and other organizations, and demonstrate how to achieve breakthrough solutions that deliver sustained value to enterprises
and society as a whole.
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 May 3, 2007
Major metropolitan cities, including New York, have seen crime statistics dramatically improve in the past decade.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has played a key role by taking a systems approach that includes innovations in policing, technology and the use of crime information. In this lecture, Jim Onalfo, NYPD CIO and Deputy
Commissioner, will discuss the systems plan and impact of the NYPD Real-Time Crime Center, which was launched in July 2005 and helped to solve 74% of New York city's homicides in that year.
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 March 22, 2007
In this lecture, Larry Kasanoff, CEO, Threshold Animation Studios
and Producer/Director/Co-creator/Writer, Foodfight!, will discuss how Threshold achieved an
order-of-magnitude increase in animation complexity, on time and within budget, as well as a fundamental change in the animation process. Their e-studio uses an animation technique
known as motion capture, where the movements of live actors are captured via fiber optic sensors and converted directly and in real time to 3D digital files. Threshold's innovation
took this mocap technology that plays a peripheral role in the business, customized and enhanced it and made it the foundation of a first-of-its-kind real-time animation system.
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 December 14, 2006
In this lecture a panel of senior
leaders from Vassar Brothers will discuss their strategy covering the technologies, their business investment model, and the deployment challenges related to social
structures and change management. Three specific projects will be discussed: bar-coding to reduce adverse medical events; voice over IP to improve nurse-physician
communication and; active RFID to track and optimize mobile assets. Panelists: Daniel Z. Aronzon, M.D., F.A.A.P., President of the Medical and Dental Staff;
Nicholas Christiano, Jr., Vice President and CIO of Health Quest;
and Stephen A. Katz, MB. Ch.B., Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs.
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 October 17, 2006
In the
inaugural seminar to this series, Linda Sanford, IBM Senior Vice President, Enterprise On Demand Transformation & Information
Technology, presented examples of how IBM solved complex business problems in its own transformation and used these learnings
to deliver sustained value to clients, employees and society.
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