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>> So my name is Guy Lohman [assumed
spelling], and I work for IBM research,

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and I work on -- research in databases.

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Well, I don't work directly with clients.

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I'm doing research in -- in the
-- fundamental research in how

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to organize information and
how to retrieve it fast.

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And so, you know, my job entails
being familiar with the literature,

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coming up with new techniques,
prototyping those techniques, and so forth.

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But I manage a group of about five Ph.D.-level
computer scientists who are working with me,

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and we all work on it together as a team.

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Busy day is, well, is every day.

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It's having phone calls often with our
colleagues in the development divisions

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in the early morning hours because we're
on the West Coast and they're on the East.

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We have design meetings or
status meetings with the team.

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I have one-on-ones with the
team, other phone conversations.

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I don't get much time to read the
literature, which is what I most enjoy doing,

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and I occasionally get a little -- a
few minutes here and there to do that.

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The major differentiation in
industrial research is the gratification

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of getting stuff into products.

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Compared to our brethren in academia, we're
doing much the same thing in terms of publishing

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in the literature, but we have the
option of getting products into --

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getting our research into
the products, and in fact,

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that is really the most gratifying
part, you know.

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When a customer actually calls up and yells
at you, you know that they're using your stuff

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and they're depending on it,
and that's very exciting.