PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD
PLANNING AND LEADERSHIP FOR A BETTER WORLD Eight new Fellows were named by IBM in recognition of innovations that have earned worldwide notoriety in the scientific and business communities. IBM Fellows now number 231—just 71 of which are still active employees. The awards were originated by Thomas J. Watson in 1962 as a way or commemorating some of the industry's most useful and profitable technologies, many of which computer users now take for granted.
IBM Fellows have been recognized for sustained technical achievements and leadership in engineering, programming, services, science and technology. IBM Fellows are typically given wider responsibilities in their areas of specialization and virtual free rein to pursue specific projects of their choice.
Past IBM Fellows have received the honor for innovations that now dominate high-performance processors, including dynamic RAM; RISC; thin-film heads for today's high-density disk drives; relational databases, which enable modern knowledge management; virtual memory, which allows multiple tasks to share a single processor; scanning tunneling microscope, which was the first instrument to image atomic-scale features; Trackpoint (the little red pointing device between the keys of laptop computers); Fortran—one of the world's most widely used computer languages; and the AT bus used by the original IBM personal computer.
David Ferruci was named IBM Fellow for his pioneering work in machine question answering that resulted in the Watson supercomputer beating a human at Jeopardy. (Source: IBM)
Probably the most well-known new IBM Fellow is David Ferrucci for his leadership as principle investigator of the cluster supercomputer "Watson," which recently beat the human champions at the TV game show Jeopardy. Ferrucci's DeepQA question-answering technology for Watson was preceded by his Unstructured Information Management Architecture project.
"Becoming an IBM Fellow is a great honor, one that has inspired me since I was first introduced to computers in high school," said Ferrucci.
The other recipients are Bob Blainey (Software Group in Newmarket, Ontario) for his two-decade quest to co-evolve hardware and software for optimal performance, including innovations in compilers, Java, programming language design and parallel systems.
Bradford Brooks (Corporate, Longmont, Colo.) was recognized for his development of benign materials and manufacturing processes that efficiently manage environmental risks.
Nagui Halim (Research, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) literally launched the now mature era of stream computing, which manages and analyzes massive volumes of continuous data collection.
Steve Hunter (Research, Raleigh, N.C.) is one of the world's foremost authorities on the convergence of networks and computing, as well as contributing to standards now used by virtualization, grid- and cloud-computing.
Stefan Pappe (Global Technology Services, Heidelberg, Germany) originated many current cloud services by virtue of his method-based framework, which has been embraced by Global Technology Services.
Renato Recio (Systems and Technology Group, Austin, Texas) has made numerous contributions that have simplified the deployment, management and operational complexity of large virtualized data centers.
Wolfgang Roesner (Systems and Technology Group, Austin, Texas) has authored verification tools and methodologies that are now enshrined in his book: "Comprehensive Functional Verification—The Complete Industry Cycle."
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