{"id":423,"date":"2015-04-01T14:04:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-04-01T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T18:04:57","slug":"dr-layne-watson-recognized-for-his-work-with-the-ibm-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/04\/01\/dr-layne-watson-recognized-for-his-work-with-the-ibm-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Layne Watson recognized for his work with the IBM Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Layne Watson, in addition to a team of professors and graduate students, is using the Power Development Cloud to create and test parallel mathematical software for global and stochastic optimization.\u00a0 His research is ongoing and part of IBM&#8221;s Power Systems Academic Initiative.\u00a0 According to an IBM press release, &#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www-304.ibm.com\/ibm\/university\/academic\/pub\/page\/power_systems\">Power Systems Academic Initiative<\/a> (PSAI) has achieved a major milestone by enrolling more than 300 colleges and universities around the globe in the program, providing these institutions with access to <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/systems\/power\/\">IBM Power Systems<\/a> technology and helping to arm students with skills to handle new workloads like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/big-data\/us\/en\/\">Big Data<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/cloud-computing\/us\/en\/\">cloud<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/mobilefirst\/us\/en\/\">mobile<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/social-business\/\">social<\/a>, that are crucial in today\u2019s job market&#8221;.\u00a0 Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/press\/us\/en\/pressrelease\/46020.wss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_118\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 110px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/image56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/10\/image56.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Watson\" width=\"100\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Dr. Watson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Layne Watson, in addition to a team of professors and graduate students, is using the Power Development Cloud to create and test parallel mathematical software for global and stochastic optimization.\u00a0 His research is ongoing and part of IBM&#8221;s Power Systems Academic Initiative.\u00a0 According to an IBM press release, &#8220;The Power Systems Academic Initiative (PSAI) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}