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The Wimbledon Tennis Championships generate a great deal of interest throughout the world, both on television and on the Internet, where the web-site handles one of the highest 'hit-rates' of any site in the world. IBM is the Official IT Supplier and Consultant to the All England Lawn Tennis Club and this talk will cover the background to IBM's involvement at Wimbledon. It then discusses the systems used during the Championships, both for TV/Media and the Internet, including various design points used for the core systems capturing the statistics and building TV graphics. For the internet, the web content is covered along with key principles of operation. This is followed by a high level view of the project plan and resources - plus a few lessons learned.
Brief biography
Roger Blake
Roger is Technical Director of Business Innovation Services - the Consulting and Systems Integration part of IBM Global Services. He has been a member of the IBM Wimbledon team since 1992 and is the Championships' Technical Consultant, responsible for the overall project technical strategy. Initially involved to reduce risk on the project, Roger now oversees the design of the current and future planned solutions and also manages the service delivery during the Wimbledon Fortnight.
Roger is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a member fo the worldwide IBM Academy of Technology and Chairman of the UK & Ireland Technical Consultancy Group (TCG) the local Academy Affiliate. He is also a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS).
