When it comes to Smarter Cities, IBM is not playing games.
However, the systems giant has created what it calls a "serious
game" to help individuals recognize the importance of solving
problems with the environment, as well as city infrastructure
and logistics. LAS VEGAS-When it comes to Smarter Cities, IBM is
not playing games. However, the systems giant has created what
it calls a "serious game" to help individuals recognize the
importance of solving problems with the environment, as well as
city infrastructure and logistics. IBM will release details of
its new game, CityOne, on May 4 at the IBM Impact 2010
conference here. Impact is IBM's annual event geared toward
service-oriented architecture (SOA) based solutions. Based on
decades of experience in solving business challenges in creative
ways, IBM "serious" games are designed to train the workforce of
tomorrow. At the Impact 2009 conference, IBM introduced Innov8,
a game that was essentially a business process management (BPM)
simulator. With an estimate