Heading up the IT infrastructure of the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 is sure to be a daunting challenge but is a role that Ward Chapin has accepted - with a little trepidation. "I kind of felt like the dog that chased the car and caught it," Chapin told a crowd of attendees on Tuesday at the Global Connect conference.
Starting today, thousands of sportscasters, international racing officials and other users at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games will tap into a one-of-a-kind, never-before-production-tested computer system that has taken a consortium of 16 technology providers more than three years to develop and deploy.