IBM Fellow

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IBM Fellow is the highest technical career level and award at IBM .

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IBM Fellows enjoyed a great deal of freedom, which is very unusual in industrial research, and were able to freely choose their research field for five years with the full support of IBM. After the regular reassessment of the research of the IBM Fellow after five years, this scope of action could be extended by a further five years. An IBM Fellow is appointed directly by the board of directors ( CEO ) and acts worldwide in the company as a consultant and mentor in his area of ​​expertise. Fellow status is awarded for life at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) . A maximum of ten new IBM Fellows are appointed each year.

history

Since TJ Watson introduced the program in 1963, 305 employees have been named IBM Fellows, of which 89 are still employed by IBM today (as of May 2019).

The IBM Fellows include Nobel Prize winners Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer ( scanning tunneling microscope ) and Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller ( high-temperature superconductors ), who all worked at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory , as well as Leo Esaki (inventor of the Esaki diode ). Other well-known award winners are the mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot (pioneer of fractals ) and the winners of the Turing Awards John W. Backus ( Fortran ), Ken Iverson ( APL , interactive systems), Edgar F. Codd ( relational database ), John Cocke ( compiler , RISC architecture) and Frances E. Allen (optimizing compiler). Further pioneering achievements by IBM Fellows included the first hard disk drives ( Reynold B. Johnson , 1956), DRAM ( Robert H. Dennard 1966), ISA (AT-Bus, Mark E. Dean ), the Trackpoint ( Ted Selker ), and the Database query language SQL ( Donald D. Chamberlin 1974).

List of IBM Fellows

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ for example the biography of Alec Broers, IBM Fellow 1977 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk
  2. ^ Gabe Goldberg: The man behind REXX. z / Journal Visits IBM Fellow Mike Cowlishaw . In: z / Journal . August / September, 2004, p. 26–29 ( PDF , HTML [accessed November 23, 2012] biography of IBM Fellow Mike Cowlishaw).
  3. ↑ “Researchers Honored at Corporate Event” , IBM. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  4. ^ [1] , IBM. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
  5. ^ "IBM Fellows" ( Memento June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), IBM.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j "There are but a few", IBM. 1981.
  7. ↑ a b Bashe u. a .: IBM's early computers , MIT Press 1986, p. 673
  8. ↑ Bashe et al. a .: IBM's Early Computers , MIT Press 1986, p. 457, for the stretch computer
  9. ^ A b c d e David W. Kean: "IBM San Jose - A Quarter Century of Innovation", IBM. Circa 1977.
  10. ^ NY Times obituary
  11. ^ "Harlan D. Mills retires," press release, IBM Federal Systems Division. June 23, 1987. (Last page in linked document.)
  12. ^ Honorary Fellows - 2003 - Professor Sir Alec Broers . Institution of Mechanical Engineers . Retrieved October 16, 2011.
  13. ↑ Short biography in: “Two-level coding for error control in magnetic disk storage products”, IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 470-484, 1989.
  14. ^ Homepage of C. Mohan at IBM
  15. ↑ 2013 IBM Fellows  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / finance.yahoo.com