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IBM Fellows

IBM's highest technical honor is the designation of IBM Fellow. Fellows are selected for sustained and distinguished technical achievements in engineering, programming and technology. Since the program began in 1963, only 194 people have been designated IBM Fellows. Fellows are granted a wide sphere of independence in the pursuit of their research.

IBM Fellows have invented some of the industry's most useful and profitably applied technologies. Few computer users may realize how much of this group's innovations have created the computer technology we take for granted.

Examples of technology originated by IBM Fellows include:

  • Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) -- the architectural basis for most high performance work stations and servers
  • Thin-film heads -- for high-density disk storage devices
  • DRAM -- the fundamental solid-state memory technology used in the industry
  • Relational databases -- one of the foundational technologies of knowledge management
  • The Trackpoint -- the little red pointing device for laptop computers
  • Virtual memory -- allows many users to share a single computer
  • The Scanning Tunneling Microscope -- the first instrument able to image atoms
  • Fortran -- one of the world's most widely used computer langauges
  • RAMAC -- the world's first disk drive
  • The AT bus -- the basic architecture for IBM personal computers

In 2007, six new Fellows were named. There are currently 67 active employees across the company who are IBM Fellows.

Active Fellows at IBM

Carl Anderson
Systems & Technology Group
Austin

Ravi Arimilli
Systems & Technology Group
Austin

Phaedon Avouris
Research
Yorktown

Richard Baum
Systems & Technology Group
Austin

J.Georg Bednorz
Research
Zurich

Charles Bennett
Research
Yorktown Heights

Grady Booch
Software Group
Boulder

Tom Bradicich
Systems and Technology Group
Raleigh

Jean Calvignac
Systems & Technology Group
Raleigh

Donald Chamberlin
Research
San Jose

Tze-Chiang Chen
Research
Yorktown Heights

Josephine Cheng
Software Group
San Jose

Richard Chu
Systems & Technology Group
Poughkeepsie

Brian Clark
Systems & Technology Group
Rochester

John Cohn
Systems and Technology Group
Burlington

Curt Cotner
Software Group
Silicon Valley Lab

Mike Cowlishaw
Software Group
Warwick

Jerry Cuomo
Software Group
Raleigh

Bijan Davari
Research
Yorktown Heights

Mark Dean
Research
San Jose

Robert Dennard
Research
Yorktown Heights

Brenda Dietrich
Research
Yorktown

Dan Edelstein
Research
Yorktown

    

Donald Eigler
Research
San Jose

Dr. Evangelos Eleftheriou
Research
Zurich

Larry Ernst
Personal Systems Group
Boulder

George Galambos
Global Technology Service
Montreal

Alan Gara
Research
Yorktown

Cesar Gonzales
Research
Yorktown Heights

Irene Greif
Research
Cambridge

David Harame
Systems and Technology Group
Burlington

Ray Harishankar
Global Business Services
Ohio

Michael Hartung
Systems & Technology Group
Tucson

Audrey Helffrich
Systems and Technology Group
Poughkeepsie

Steven Hetzler
Research
San Jose

Kerrie Holley
Global Business Services
San Francisco

Carol Jones
Software Group
Westford

Ed Kahan
Software Group
Orlando

James Kahle
Systems & Technology Group
Austin

Bruce Lindsay
Research
San Jose

David Lindquist
Software Group
Raleigh

Bradley McCredie
Systems & Technology Group
Austin

Jai Menon
Systems & Technology Group
San Jose

Bernard Meyerson
Systems & Technology Group
East Fishkill

Joan Mitchell
Personal Systems Group
Boulder

C. Mohan
Research
San Jose

    

Alex Morrow
Research
Cambridge

Martin Nally
Software Group
Costa Mesa

Tak Ning
Research
Yorktown Heights

Stuart Parkin
Research
San Jose

Maurice Perks
Global Technology Service
United Kingdom

Hamid Pirahesh
Research
San Jose

Gururaj Rao
Research
Yorktown Heights

Lubomyr Romankiw
Research
Yorktown Heights

James Rymarczyk
Systems & Technology Group
Austin

Edward Seminaro
Systems & Technology Group
Poughkeepsie

Ghavam Shahidi
Research
Yorktown Heights

Rod Smith
Systems and Technology Group
Raleigh

Kevin Stoodley
Software Group
Toronto

Tony Storey
Software Group
Hursley

Michael Swanson
Systems & Technology Group
Poughkeepsie

Yun Wang
Software Group
Beijing

Charles Webb
Systems & Technology Group
Poughkeepsie

Mark Wegman
Research
Hawthorne

Kumar Wickramasinghe
Research
San Jose

Shmuel Winograd
Research
Yorktown Heights

Chris Winter
Global Business Services
Hursley

  
 
  


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