So tonight, while I will talk about the power and potential of Information Technology, I hope the temper of my remarks with the perspective I had when I came to IBM five years ago, the perspective of a customer.因此，虽然今晚我要谈谈信息技术的力量和潜力，但是我希望我能够象五年前刚到 IBM 时一样，站在消费者的立场上表达我的观点。Now it is certainly easy to

The second type of deep computing is what we call data mining -- some people call it business intelligence, the ability to extract inside from mountains of information, and see relationships and trends that previously were not available or invisible.第二种深入计算我们称之为数据分析处理 -- 有些人称之为商业情报处理，即从大量信息中提炼出有用情报，

In higher education, there is a university in Canada, Atherbasca University, that delivers 100 percent of its courses by what is called distant learning. No students on campus, no campus. All instruction is delivered online. And they have captured nearly 30 percent of all MBA students in Canada. Gov

A quick example, think about driving down the autobahn.Your intelligent car develops an engine problem. But instead of flashing you a warning light, it sends a message directly to the manufacturer over a wireless connection to the Net. The manufacturer systems diagnose the problem, and they transmit

So we believe that deep computing is a trend that will have a profound effect on commerce and on society. Of course a concept throwing big problems at computers is not a new idea. Its rules can be traced at the very origins of the industry. The difference today is that the systems are so much more p

Now all of us must realize this is not a spectator&#39s sport, when I was just sitting here watching &quotamazon.com&quot. Every institution and every entity must grab with this issue at the highest level as management. S&ampBase, Cacherdeck is one of the largest department stores in Europe. But the

The trend in data storage is even more impressive. In the early 80s, the standard unit of computer storage, one mega-byte, or one million bytes of information, cost about 100 dollars. Today, it is 10 cents. In two years, it will cost 2 cents.数据存储技术的发展趋势更是令人瞠目。八十年代初期，一个标准单位的计算机存储能力，即 1MB，或者说 1 百万字节，售

Good evening! It is a great honor for me to share this stage with the Lord Mayor, chief executive of Hannover, with Mr. Yang, and in a few minutes with Chancellor Kohl.各位晚上好！非常荣幸能够与汉诺威市市长、Yang 先生共同出席今晚的会议，非常荣幸能与科尔总理共同度过这个美好的夜晚。I have been looking forward to this evening for a long time, because I ha

In the farmer suitacle industry, the ability to simulate the interaction of chemicals, and do it in the computer rather than in test-tubes and Petri dishes, can speed up by years the discovery and testing of new farmer suitacle.在农业育种工业，如果我们能模仿化学元素之间的相互作用，用计算机而不是用试管和培养皿做试验，我们将可以几年几年的缩短农业新品种的发现和测试时间。M

It is 35 degrees, raise the price by 15 pfennigs. Soon we will see this hyper standard network world made up of a trillion interconnected intersecting devices. And this will intersect with the data capability I spoke of early -- pervasive computing meets deep computing. Companies and institutions wi

This only escalates all these issues, only escalates as the network world marches on.We have already talked about the first milestone that is the Net connecting, say a billion people to perhaps a million E-businesses. The next milestone is what we and IBM call pervasive computing. Fifty years ago wh

That is because networks are great levelers. They dissolve barriers to entry the neutralized traditional assets like physical stores and branches. Networks dissolved the boundaries within and between companies, countries, continents and time-zones. It is not hyperbole to say that the network is quic

The leader in this online race is &quotamazon.com&quot.If you have not heard of them, do not feel bad. Three years ago, nobody heard of them. They did not exist. Their customers do not aware they exist physically, and they do not care. Amazon.com exists only in cyberspace. But with 2.5 million title

Consider that across Europe Internet sales of about one billion dollars last year are projected to reach 30 billion dollars by the year 2001. One study says that the worldwide Internet commerce activity will double, double in the next six month alone. And most of that is business to business transac

I believe there are two trends that are most significant here, and bare the closest watching.我认为现在有两个最重要的趋势，并需要我们密切关注。The first is what we call deep computing. The term is inspired by our chess-playing super computer Deep Blue, which I believe many of you know competed with the Grand Master Gary Kas