{"id":14473,"date":"2015-01-13T23:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=14473"},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:23:31","slug":"tuesday-night-mr-brody-has-left-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/01\/13\/tuesday-night-mr-brody-has-left-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday night – Mr Brody has left the building"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a bittersweet\u00a0\u00a0day for me at work.. a good friend, mentor and collaborator of mine, Paul B left IBM for less Blue pastures. His reasons for going are his own.. I can just say that I and \u00a0will miss working with him very much. He has been an inspiration to me and many of my colleagues.. He’s a big thinker with sometimes \u00a0controversial ideas.. .. \u00a0His different ideas have often gotten him.. and more recently me .. in trouble with others.. but\u00a0he\u00a0\u00a0reminds me that it’s not always best to think like everyone else..<\/p>\n

I saw that Paul’s leaving was picked up in the press<\/a> as soon as it was announced..<\/p>\n

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Paul Brody, the man in charge of selling mobile and internet of things services to business in North America for IBM, left the company as of Tuesday. Brody is also the man who was spearheading a really interesting technology idea that combined Ethereum\u2019s blockchain-based decentralized platform and programming language with BitTorrent and some code called Telehash to create an\u00a0entirely new framework<\/a>\u00a0for building software for the internet of things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stacy then goes on to describe the demos we ran last week<\/p>\n

The CES demonstrations involved a washing machine that would re-order its own detergent and a distributed marketplace for advertising that were \u201cworking perfectly,\u201d Brody said in a phone interview Tuesday. The next steps will be designing a scalable version of the architecture \u2014 hopefully, something IBM and Samsung will get done within the next four to six weeks.<\/p>\n

Brody won\u2019t be at IBM to lead it, but he said John Cohn, an IBM fellow, and Veena Pureswaran, global electronics industry lead, will continue with the project, as will folks at Samsung. Meanwhile, keep your eyes open on Github for the Adept white paper explaining how the blockchain proof of concept demonstrations shown at CES work. They make for some awesome reading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n