Tom Bishop - In the Mind of the CTO Podcast Series - The Next Cool Thing
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There is a tribe of people in
the world today who are, well, a different breed of cat, shall we say. They
commit passages of Stranger in a Strange Land to memory. They
carry on a love affair with coffee, not only for its rich flavor, but for
the opportunity to experience nearly infinite durations of
caffeine-generated consciousness. They are not particularly WOWed when
inventions like cellphones emerge, because chances are, they've already
thought of them ... or envisioned them. They are the techies who work all
day in front of a computer, then go home at night and, well, turn on a
computer. And always, always, they are thinking, dreaming, about what will
be The Next Cool Thing.
Recently, TalkBMC had the opportunity to sit down with BMC Software's chief
techie, CTO Tom Bishop, and to ask him a range of questions all about The
Next Cool Thing. From what will Oracle CEO Larry Ellison do next, to how
will the video iPod change the world, to what he thinks about the latest
GOOGLE/Sun Microsystems announcement (and what he'd hoped they'd say), Tom
is not without opinions, visions, and creative thinking about some of the
hottest topics in tech today. This visionary CTO even wonders aloud about
the Disneyworld, or Brave New World, that the present Internet
infrastructure will usher in ... and he invites the listener to think, and
to dream, along with him.
Oh yes ... and he relates a pretty interesting coffee story, too. (Maybe
there are some things that never do change, after all ...)
Bio
Tom Bishop was named one of the top 25 CTOs by InfoWorld Magazine in 2004 and is a well-known industry innovator who holds nine patents in fault tolerant computing and in leading the development of industry standards such as the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and POSIX.
Production Credits
Ynema Mangum, Producer
Dana Farver, Communities Editor-in-Chief
Tom Parish, Audio Producer, Show Host
Kimberly Stone, Web Development Manager
Scott Ebner, Web Developer
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