Join the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation for the Lung Cancer Living Room Support Group on May 21, 2013. Live Online!

The Lung Cancer Living Room welcomes Paul Billings, MD, PhD as their guest speaker on May 21, 2013. Dr. Billings is a physician, lecturer, researcher, professor, and consultant on genetic information. He will be discussing the road map towards precision medicine and the role of Next Generation Sequencing and what it means to someone diagnosed with Lung Cancer. For more information on Dr. Billings CLICK HERE Its going to be another great night, so BJALCF hopes to see you in person or online via Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-lung-cancer-living-room-support-group For more information CLICK HERE or contact Danielle Hicks at danielle@lungcancerfoundation.org  or (650) 598- 2857. Living Room Partners

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Why and How You Should Adopt BYOD

Check out this informative page from IBM.

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)

All Sports Camp at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia

This is your child’s chance to receive a well-rounded summer experience. He/she will receive excellent instruction from college athletes in the sports of basketball, soccer, lacrosse, volleyball, baseball, and tennis.

Who:  Girls and Boys ages four years through 9th grade (up to 14 years)

Where
Agnes Scott College
Woodruff Physical Activities Building
225 E. Dougherty St., Decatur, GA

Time
8:30 a.m.–4:30p.m. Full Day
8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Morning Session (Half Day Campers are to bring lunch)

What to bring:  Water bottle, baseball glove, tennis racquet, lunch, snacks, swim suit , towel , goggles. Camp Canteen will be available (Half-day campers do not have swim time.)

Full-day cost:  $190 per child per week  |  Half-day Cost:  $140 Morning Session
$10 discount for each additional child per family

Session 1: May28-May 31 ($170)
Session 2: June 3-7
Session 3: June 10-14
Session 4: June 17-21
Session 5: June 24– 28
Session 6: July 1-3 ($150)
Session 7: July 8-12
Session 8: July 15-19
Session 9: July 22– 26
Session 10: July 29 –Aug 2nd

Learn more and register here.

Questions contact:  Jamenda Whitehead at jwhithead@agnesscott.edu or 404-471-6497.

Battle of Ohio! Come see the Cleveland Indians take on the Cincinnati Reds on May 29th at Progressive Field!

YOU'RE INVITED DATE: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 5:45 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. LOCATION: Progressive Field 3071 Westgate Cleveland, OH Room: Suite 1994 (Enter through Gate C) By accepting this invitation, the invitee represents that his or her attendance at the event is not in violation of any applicable ethics laws, and that the invitee will abide by all applicable ethics laws pertaining to the event. Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. does not intend for this event to influence the invitee in the performance of his or her duties, nor does it constitute a gift.

Come see the Cleveland Indians take on the Cincinnati Reds on May 29th at Progressive Field! Enjoy the game and great food while networking with your peers, IBM and Sirius experts. You'll also get the opportunity to learn how to stay ahead of security threats, and to ask questions about your security challenges in today's complex threat landscape. An IBM expert will briefly present an overview of IBM's leading security solutions, which are all deep in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for their categories: • IBM QRadar - Provides a security intelligence platform that enhances data management, visualization, and role-based access control for improved threat detection and compliance • IBM InfoSphere Guardium - Manages the entire database security and compliance life cycle • IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager - Manages virtual and physical endpoints and mobile devices Join us for this complimentary event and learn how to hit a home run with IBM Security solutions, while reducing costs and complexity. This event is by invitation only. Please register today to reserve your space! AGENDA: 5:45 p.m. Registration & Sirius Welcome 6:00 p.m. Security Presentation 7:05 p.m. Game Time - Indians vs. Reds CONTACT: Barbara Tomchik at barbara.tomchik@siriuscom.com or 315.381.2505

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Amazing! IBM Makes a Movie Out of Atoms

The following article was originally published at Time.com by Harry McCracken on May 1st, 2013.

© 2013 Time Inc

A Boy and His Atom is less than 90 seconds long. It doesn’t have much of a plot, or any big laughs. And the animation is rudimentary — it’s monochromatic, blocky and generally reminiscent of the graphics I programmed on my Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in 1978, only not quite as fancy.

And yet IBM’s new cartoon — yes, IBM made a cartoon — is remarkable. It was produced at IBM Research’s Almaden Research Center in Northern California, by a bunch of scientists who used a scanning tunneling microscope as their animation tool. The pixels are individual atoms, nudged into place to form a picture. (The Guinness folks have certified this as the smallest movie ever made.)

IBM has been playing around with individual atoms for a long time: two of its Zurich-based researchers invented the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it in 1986. The company’s Silicon Valley lab — where the hard disk was born in 1956 — uses the microscope to explore futuristic storage technologies. By using a tiny magnet, it’s shown that it’s possible to store one bit of information using 12 atoms, versus the 1 million atoms a hard drive needs to do the job. That discovery could eventually lead to digital storage that crams radically more data into far less space than any existing technology.

IBM’s atomic-animation equipment

The microscope needs “a low temperature in a very, very clean environment, so the only atoms that are there are the ones we want to be there,” says IBM researcher Andreas Heinrich. “The devil is in the details, as usual — it’s a complicated machine, but it can work very reliably.”

It occurred to the Almaden researchers that if you can use a subminiature magnet to flip bits on and off, you could also use it to create frames of animation. Over roughly 10 18-hour workdays, a team of four people created the cartoon, with storytelling assistance from an animation company called 1st Ave. Machine. Using the microscope to position individual atoms, Heinrich explains, is a bit like placing eggs in an egg cartoon: you push them in a general direction, and they plop into the precise spot where they want to sit.

The moviemakers had a total of about 10,000 atoms’ worth of resolution to work with, which didn’t seem like much at first. But “you can actually see his surprise when the trampoline appears,” says Heinrich, speaking of the movie’s stick-figure protagonist. “His hair is moving, his eyes are blinking — that’s the genius in the design.” The whole thing takes up 242 frames of action.

Here’s IBM’s own movie on the making of A Boy and His Atom.

Will IBM produce any sequels to its first atomic cartoon? It has no plans to go back to the, um, drawing board. “We don’t want to make movies for making movies’ sake,” Heinrich says. “Hopefully this will resonate, and people will get interested in science.” If the supershort tale has a message, it’s that “science can be fun — go study science, basically.”

Learn how IBM is addressing Mobile Devices in the Enterprise! [Ft. Lauderdale, FL. May 16th]

You have to eat lunch, right?  So why not take a break in your day and join us to hear about how IBM is addressing Mobile Devices!

The explosive growth of mobile devices means organizations need mobile solutions that deliver value quickly, leveraging their current investments in technology and skills, while still retaining high levels of security and manageability. You'll hear about IBM's application development solution, Worklight, which allows you to quickly build and manage mobile applications across the breadth of mobile platforms. You'll also learn about "Smarter, Faster Endpoint Management" featuring IBM Endpoint Manager, built on BigFix technology.

IBM Endpoint Manager combines endpoint and security management into a single solution that enables your team to see and manage physical and virtual endpoints—servers, desktops, roaming laptops, ATMs. self-service kiosks and more. In fact, IBM is currently running this solution internally on over 600,000 endpoints. And now, IBM Endpoint Manager provides end-to-end security and management of mobile devices within your enterprise! Worklight and IBM Endpoint Manager allow you to seamlessly manage the full mobile application lifecycle - from secure, cross-platform application development to deployment, to maintenance and deprovisioning of applications for employee- and corporate-owned mobile devices.

Intrigued?  Please join us for lunch at The Capital Grille to hear more!

Seating is limited so your RSVP kindly requested.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

If you have questions, please contact me via my IBM rep page at www.ibm.com/myrep/jagaeta.

We look forward to hosting you!

Bye-Bye Tivoli, Welcome Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure

Bye-Bye Tivoli, Welcome Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure: A New Brand in IBM — In an internal reorg, IBM's Tivoli, Maximo, TRIRIGA, Endpoint Manager, and Netcool branded offerings, as well as its SmartCloud service management offerings, are now to be clustered under an "overarching umbrella" called IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure. The new division, says IBM, reflects the evolution of client needs and IBM’s portfolio.

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