Working at IBM India Research Lab

My Indian colleagues at IBM Research Lab have been wonderful. They are all so accommodating and eager to help. There seems to be a great lab synergy. It is a smaller lab, and a younger lab, than its US counterpart –can that account for some of the closeness? They also hold end of month lab-wide events, adding to the bonding experience. For July they had a contest to see whether people could identify verses from Indian movies. Today they will hold a table tennis tournament. No one seems cynical about any of these events; everyone participates. This has been, so far, a great professional fit. The Spoken Web work is as exciting and fulfilling as I had hoped it would be. The project has potential for world impact, along with financial impact for IBM. We are talking to entities that want to use Spoken Web to track vaccinations of babies; and other entities that want to use this as a tool for farmers to improve crop yields. Addressing world hunger AND disease….it doesn’t get more fulfilling than that…