Day 2

Today, I went to the University of the Philippines main campus in Diliman, Quezon City and to UP Ayala Land TechnoHub.

The first part of the seminar was a brief welcoming address by Prof. Lemuel Brana then followed by Ms Rose Ann Sale with her talk about on how to write a winning thesis.

The UP Ayala Land TechnoHub is an information and technology park or an economic zone for information and technology related business locators. It is located in Barangay UP Campus near Philcoa in Quezon City, along Commonwealth Avenue within the University of the Philippines property.

This technology park is a partnership between the University of the Philippines and Ayala Land - a subsidiary of Ayala Corporation, to utilize the idle property of the university. It is adjacent to the U.P. Arboretum, a forest and protected area near the Triangle Park. The techno hub is an off-shoot of the previous partnership between the university and the corporation through the Ayala IT Park which is located at the southern boundary of the university along Katipunan corner C.P. Garcia Avenue.

SeaChange International is the global leader in multi-screen video and one of the largest software companies worldwide.  The Company provides innovative, Emmy award-winning solutions and services for back office, advertising, content, in-home devices and broadcast to hundreds of media companies globally, including blue chips such as Comcast, Virgin Media, AT&T, Hutchison Whampoa, Vodacom and DISH Network.  Headquartered in Acton, Massachusetts, SeaChange has product development, support and sales offices around the world.

International Business Machines  (IBM)  is an American multinationalcomputer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM is one of the few information technologycompanies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

 

What I learned?

We had a lots of learning in IBM. We went to their data center. The speaker taught us about the services and it includes the  assistance in a variety of areas and in a complex, multiplatform environment, including Linux -- from design and planning, procurement, installation, integration and migration assistance to systems management, telephone consulting and on-site hardware and software maintenance. The six laboratories are the following: Algorithm and Complexity Lab, Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence Lab, Scientific Computing Lab, Computer Security Lab, Networking and Distributed Systems Lab and Web Science Lab.

What I liked ?

This day was our second day and it seems that we stayed for a long long time here in Manila because we had a very long day. We had many activities this day. It's an honor to go in UP Diliman. I really enjoyed. We really enjoyed. I liked the school. UP Diliman is a big school ever that I've seen.

 What I didn’t like?

 I didn’t liked that I was feeling so drowsy during the SeaChange tour, it was embarrassing. I was also freezing cold.