IBM Fellows

IBM Fellows IBM FellowsIBM'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 1962, only 217 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 languages The AT bus — the basic architecture for IBM personal computers In 2010, six new Fellows were named. There are currently 73 active employees across the company who are IBM Fellows. 2010 IBM Fellow AwardsJames C. Colson IBM Software Group Austin, Texas Jeffrey A. Frey IBM Systems and Technology Group Poughkeepsie, New York Alfred Grill IBM Research Yorktown, New York Subramanian Iyer IBM Systems and Technology Group Hopewell Junction, New York Anant D. Jhingran IBM Software Group San Jose, California Charles Johnson IBM Research Rochester, Minnesota Active Fellows at IBMChieko Asakawa IBM Research Yamato, Japan Dr. Martin Sepulveda IBM CHQ, Human Resources Southbury, Connecticut Michael Kaczmarski IBM Software Group, Tivoli Tucson, Arizona Carl J. 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 H. 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 C. Chu Systems & Technology Group Poughkeepsie John Cohn Systems and Technology Group Essex Junction Curt Cotner Software Group San Jose Mike Cowlishaw Software Group Warwick, United Kingdom Emmanuel Crabbé Systems and Technology Group, East Fishkill, New York Jerry Cuomo Software Group Durham Bijan Davari Research Yorktown Heights Mark Dean Research Almaden Robert Dennard Research Yorktown Heights Brenda Dietrich Research Yorktown Dan Edelstein Research Yorktown Donald Eigler Research San Jose Satya Sharma IBM Systems & Technology Group Austin, Texas Hung Le IBM Systems & Technology Group, Austin, Texas Roger Schmidt IBM Systems & Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, New York Evangelos Eleftheriou Research Zurich George Galambos Research Hawthorne Alan Gara Research Yorktown Cesar Gonzales Research Hawthorne Irene Greif Research Cambridge David Harame Systems & Technology Group Essex Junction, Vermont Ray Harishankar Global Business Services Ohio Audrey Helffrich Systems & Technology Group Poughkeepsie Steven Hetzler Research San Jose Robert H. High Jr. Software Group, Austin, Texas Kerrie Holley Global Business Services San Francisco Hiroshi Ito Research, San Jose, California Carol Jones Software Group Raleigh 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 T&IP San Jose Bernard Meyerson Systems & Technology Group Somers Susan L. Miller-Sylvia Global Business Services, Sacramento, California C. Mohan Research India Alex Morrow Research Cambridge David Nahamoo Research, Yorktown, New York