IBM Fellow

An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 or 5 IBM Fellows are appointed each year, at the annual Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) event in May or June. It is considered to be the highest honor a technologist at IBM can achieve. Similar positions are not unknown at other large companies in the computer industry, as for example the Technical fellow at Microsoft.

The IBM Fellows program was founded in 1962 by Thomas J. Watson, Jr., as a way to promote creativity among the company’s “most exceptional” technical professionals. The first appointments were made in 1963. The criteria for appointment are stringent and take into account only the most significant technical achievements. In addition to a history of extraordinary accomplishments, candidates must also be considered to have the potential to make continued contributions.IBM Fellows are given broad latitude to identify and pursue projects in their area of expertise.

Since 1963, 203 IBM Fellows have been appointed. Of these, 70 are active employees (in late May 2008).The IBM Technical Community numbers over 200,000 people, including 560 Distinguished Engineers.

A partial list, in chronological order (list from 2008):

* Charles H. Bennett (?)
* Paul Burton (?)
* Harlan Mills (?)
* * Ralph Palmer (1963)
* John Backus (1963)
* Ralph E. Gomory (1964)
* Robert Henle (1964)
* Gene Amdahl (1965)
* Reynold B. Johnson (1966)
* Leo Esaki (1967)
* Richard Garwin (1967)
* Herman Goldstine (1967)
* Nathaniel Rochester (IBM) (1967)
* Peter Sorokin (1968)
* Rolf Landauer (1969)
* Enrico Clementi (1969)
* Kenneth Iverson (1970)
* John Cocke (1972)
* Edgar Codd (1972)
* Shmuel Winograd (1972)
* Dean Eastman (1974)
* Benoît Mandelbrot (1974)
* Henri Nussbaumer (1975)
* James H. Pomerene (1976)
* Heinz Zemanek (1976)
* Alan J Hoffman (1978)
* Robert Dennard (1979)
* David Thompson (1980)
* J. Georg Bednorz (1982)
* Karl Alexander Müller (1982)
* Richard Chu (1984)
* Alan Fowler (1984)
* Werner Kulcke (1984)
* Denis Mee (1984)
* James P. Gray (1984)
* Gottfried Ungerboeck (198?)
* Hans Pfeiffer (1985)
* Jerry Woodall (1985)
* G Glenn Henry (1985)
* Lubomyr Romankiw (1986)
* Gerd Binnig (1987)
* Nick Pippenger (1987)
* Bernard R. Aken, Jr. (1988)
* Michael Hatzakis (1988)
* Petteri Järvinen (1988)
* James L. Walsh (1988)
* Larry Loucks (1989)
* Frances E. Allen (1989)
* Donald Haderle (1989)
* Russell Lange (1989)
* Michael F. Cowlishaw (1990)
* J. Kent Howard (1990)
* Ellis J. Johnson (1990)
* Howard L. Kalter (1990)
* Randolf G. Scarborough (1990)
* Marc Auslander (199?)
* Richard Baum (1991)
* Tak Ning (1991)
* Bernard Meyerson (1992)
* Don Eigler (1993)
* Anthony Temple (1993)
* James T Brady (1994)
* Diane Pozefsky (1994)
* Patricia Selinger (1994)
* Charles H. Bennett (1995)
* Mark E. Dean (1995)
* Michael D. Swanson (1995)
* Ching H. Tsang (1995)
* Bijan Davari (1996)
* James Rymarczyk (1996)
* Ted Selker (1996)
* Bruce Lindsay (1996)
* Ramesh Agarwal (1997)
* Jean Calvignac (1997)
* [http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/mohan/ C. Mohan] (1997)
* Cesar A. Gonzales (1998)
* Steven R. Hetzler (1998)
* Tze-Chiang Chen (1999)
* Irene Greif (1999)
* Alex Morrow (1999)
* Stuart S. Parkin (1999)
* Hamid Pirahesh (1999)
* Gururaj S. Rao (1999)
* Nicholas Shelness (1999)
* Carl J. Anderson (2000)
* Josephine M. Cheng (2000)
* H. Kumar Wickramasinghe (2000)
* Ravi K. Arimilli (2001)
* Donald F. Ferguson (2001)
* Jai M. Menon (2001)
* Joan L. Mitchell (2001)
* Arimasa Naitoh (2001)
* Jeffrey M. Nick (2001)
* Ghavam Shahidi (2001)
* Rakesh Agrawal (2002)
* Michael H. Hartung (2002)
* James A. Kahle (2002)
* Maurice J. Perks (2002)
* Anthony A. Storey (2002)
* Grady Booch (2003)
* Donald D. Chamberlin (2003)
* George M. Galambos (2003)
* Rodney A. Smith (2003)
* Charles F. Webb (2003)
* Phaedon Avouris (2004)
* Curt L. Cotner (2004)
* David L. Harame (2004)
* Audrey A. Helffrich (2004)
* Kevin A. Stoodley (2004)
* Evangelos S. Eleftheriou (2005)
* Larry M. Ernst (2005)
* Ed Kahan (2005)
* Bradley D. McCredie (2005)
* Yun Wang (2005)
* Thomas M. Bradicich (2006)
* John Maxwell Cohn (2006)
* Gennaro A. Cuomo (2006)
* Daniel C. Edelstein (2006)
* Alan Gara (2006)
* Ray Harishankar (2006)
* Kerrie L. Holley (2006)
* Carol A. Jones (2006)
* Brenda L. Dietrich (2007)
* David B. Lindquist (2007)
* Martin P. Nally (2007)
* Edward J. Seminaro (2007)
* Mark N. Wegman (2007)
* Chris C. Winter (2007)
* Emmanuel Crabbé (2008)
* Robert H. High Jr. (2008)
* Hiroshi Ito (2008)
* Susan L. Miller-Sylvia (2008)
* David Nahamoo (2008)
* Pratap Pattnaik (2008)
* Thomas L. Seevers (2008)
* Moshe Yanai (2008)
* Harry M. Yudenfriend (2008)

References

The Corporate Technical Recognition Event commemorative book for each year lists the IBM Fellows designated in that year. The following have been used to verify the names and dates for those years in the list above:
*IBM CTRE Book, June 5–8, 1984
*IBM CTRE Book, May 16–19, 1988
*IBM CTRE Book, June 4–7, 1990
*IBM CTRE Book, June 5–8, 1995, San Diego, California
*IBM CTRE Book, June 9–12, 1998, San Francisco, California
*IBM CTRE Book, June 8–11, 1999, Naples, Florida
*IBM CTRE Book, June 5–8, 2000
*IBM CTRE Book, May 29–June 1, 2001
*IBM CTRE Book, June 4–7, 2002
*IBM CTRE Book, June 2–5, 2003
*IBM CTRE Book, May 25–28, 2004
*IBM CTRE Book, May 24–27, 2005
*IBM CTRE Book, May 23–26, 2006
*IBM CTRE Book, May 14–17, 2007
*IBM CTRE Book, May 12–15, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona

External links

*http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/awards_fellows.shtml

ee also

Microsoft has a similar recognition program entitled Technical Fellow and has at the start of 2007 hired IBM Fellow Donald F. Ferguson.