Gennaro "Jerry" Anthony Cuomo (born 1962) is an American software engineer who has worked for IBM since 1987. Holding the title of IBM Fellow,IBM Appoints Eight New Fellows to Drive Innovation Cuomo is known as one of the founding fathers of IBM WebSphere Software, a software framework and middleware that hosts Java-based web applications.
Cuomo has filed for over 50 US patentsJerry Cuomo's U.S. Patents and has been cited over 3000 times.Jerry Cuomo's Scholar Citations His most visible patent is the first use of the "Someone is typing..." indicator found in instant messaging applications (U.S. Patent 5,990,887).'Someone is typing...' US Patent 5,990,887'Someone's typing...': The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature
At IBM, Cuomo has led projects in the areas of: Blockchain,IBM Blockchain Blogs – Gennaro ‘Jerry’ Cuomo APIs, July 2014 - Why the growing API economy gives developers limitless opportunities cloud computing, Jerry Cuomo on Cloud Computing and IBM’s PaaS Interview: Jerry Cuomo Discusses Virtualization, Cloud Computing and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise mobile computing,Youtube video, Jerry Cuomo - Engaging Enterprise What Business Leaders Can Learn from 'Generation Mobile' Internet of Things, IBM tackles M2M's big data challenge web server performance & availability, May 2004, IBM Systems Journal, Designing WebSphere Application Server for performance, R. Willenborg, K Brown, G. Cuomo web security,Method and apparatus for processing requests in a network data processing system based on a trust association between servers, N. Nagaratnam, W. Jamison, GA. Cuomo web caching,Context Sensitive Caching, Cuomo, Martin, Ferguson, Et al. edge computing,June 2005, ACM – SIGMOD 2005, IBM SOA on the Edge, G. Cuomo service-oriented architecture and REST.IBM affirms Restful SOA & dynamic languages with Project Zero
Cuomo is the co-author of the book, Blockchain for Business,Blockchain for Business- Jai Singh Arun, Jerry Cuomo, Nitin Gaur ©2019 Addison-Wesley Professional that illustrates how blockchain technology is re-imagining many of the world's most fundamental business interactions and opening the door to new styles of digital interactions that have yet to be imagined. In March 2016House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing & Trade ‘How to Capitalize on Blockchain’ March 16, 2016 and 2018,House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Oversight & Subcommittee Research and Technology "Beyond Bitcoin: Emerging Applications for Blockchain Technology" February 14, 2018 Cuomo was called upon by the United States government as an expert witness to testify to US Energy and Commerce Committee on Digital Currency and Blockchain. During his 2016 testimony Cuomo urged the Obama administration to adopt Blockchain as a primary means to protect citizen identity and to enhance national security. His testimony can be seen on YouTube.Vice Chairman Marshall’s Q&A on "Beyond Bitcoin: Emerging Applications for Blockchain Technology" February 14, 2018
Cuomo is currently the VP of Technology within IBM's Consulting business unit, where he is driving the technical strategy for AI-powered automation.AI-Powered Automation is Enterprise Automation 2.0 In 2022, he published the book The Art of Automation.The Art of Automation by Jerry Cuomo, et al. Later that year, he launched the Think series with his book Think Blockchain,Think Blockchain by Jerry Cuomo and in 2024, expanded the series with Think Artificial Intelligence.Think Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Cuomo He also hosts a technology podcast called Wild Ducks, which has been running since 2020.Wild Ducks Podcast
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