IBM Fellows

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An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only four to nine (eleven in 2014) IBM Fellows are appointed each year, in May or June. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.

The IBM Fellows program was founded in 1962 by Thomas J. Watson, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 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. Francis E. Hamilton is believed to be the first IBM Fellow, appointed in 1963 for amongst other things his work on the development of the IBM 650.[1][2]

IBM Fellows are given broad latitude to identify and pursue projects in their area of expertise.

As of 2016, only 277 IBMers have earned the IBM Fellow distinction, and 98 of them remain active IBM employees. IBM Fellows have generated 9,307 patents, received five Nobel prizes, thousands of government and professional citations and have a massive store of published research in scientific journals.[3]
List of IBM Fellows

In chronological order, as of 2016:

Francis E. Hamilton (1963)[1]
Ronald D. Dodge (1963)[1]
C.R. Doty, Sr. (1963)[1]
Clyde J. Fitch (1963)[1]
Ralph Palmer (1963)
John Backus (1963)
Private (Ralph E.1964)
Robert Henle (1964)
James A. Weidenhammer (1964)[1]
Laurence A. Wilson (1964)[1]
Gene Amdahl (1965)
S.W. Dunwell (1966)[1]
Reynold B. Johnson (1966)
James M. Brownlow (1967)
George F. Daly (1967)
Wallace Eckert (1967)
Leo Esaki (1967)
Richard L. Garwin (1967)
Jean Ghertman (1967)
Evon C. Greanias (1967)
Edward J. Rabenda (1967)
Nathaniel Rochester (1967)
Walter Buslik (1968)[1]
L.R. Harper (1968) [4]
Peter Sorokin (1968)
E. Alan Brown (1969)[1]
H.G. Kolsky (1969)[4]
Rolf Landauer (1969)
Enrico Clementi (1969)
Herman Goldstine (1969)[5]
Jacob Riseman (1969)*- see Directory
D. DeWitt (1970)[4]
Kenneth E. Iverson (1970)
Victor R. Witt (1970)[1]
J. B. Gunn (1971)
Bill Beausoleil (1972)[6]
John Cocke (1972)
Shmuel Winograd (1972)
Harlan Mills (1973)[7]
R.G. Brewer (1973)[4]
Dean Eastman (1974)
Jack Harker (1974)
Benoît Mandelbrot (1974)
A.R. Heller (1975)[4]
Henri Nussbaumer (1975)
James H. Pomerene (1976)
Edgar F. Codd (1976)
Heinz Zemanek (1976)
Alec N. Broers (1977)[8]
Alan J. Hoffman (1978)
Robert Dennard (1979)
David A. Thompson (1980)
Richard E. Blahut (1980)
George Radin (1980) [9]
Donald Seraphim (1981)[10]
Edward H. Sussenguth (1981)[10]
Janusz S. Wilczynski (1981)[10]
K. Alex Müller (1982)
Richard Chu (1983)
Alan Fowler (1984)
Werner Kulcke (1984)
Denis Mee (1984)
James P. Gray (1984)
Allan L. Scherr (1984)
Gottfried Ungerboeck (1985)
Hans Pfeiffer (1985)
Jerry Woodall (1985)
G. Glenn Henry (1985)
Dale L. Critchlow (1986)[11]
Heinrich Rohrer (1986)
Arvind M. Patel (1986)[12]
Lubomyr Romankiw (1986)
Georg Bednorz (1987)
Edwin R. Lassettre (1987)
Paul E. Totta (1987)
Karl Hermann (1987)
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 L. Johnson (1990)
Howard L. Kalter (1990)
Randolph G. Scarborough (1990)
Marc Auslander (1991)
Richard Baum (1991)
Tak Ning (1991)
Bernard Meyerson (1992)
Don Eigler (1993)
Peter Kogge (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)
Brian E. Clark (1996)
Bijan Davari (1996)
James Rymarczyk (1996)
Ted Selker (1996)
Bruce Lindsay (1996)
Yutaka Tsukada (1996)
Steve Taplin (1997)
Ramesh Agarwal (1997)
Jean Calvignac (1997)
C. Mohan (1997)
Cesar A. Gonzales (1998)
Steven R. Hetzler (1998)
Tze-Chiang Chen (1999)
Irene Greif (1999)
Alex Morrow (1999)
Stuart 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)[13]
Curt L. Cotner (2004)[13]
David L. Harame (2004)[13]
Audrey A. Helffrich (2004)[13]
Kevin A. Stoodley (2004)[13]
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)
Chieko Asakawa (2009)
Nicholas M. Donofrio
Laura M. Haas (2009)
Michael A. Kaczmarski (2009)
Hung Q. Le (2009)
Roger R. Schmidt (2009)
Martín-J Sepúlveda (2009)
Satya P. Sharma (2009)
Tim J. Vincent (2009)
James C. Colson (2010)
Jeffrey A. Frey (2010)
Alfred Grill (2010)
Subramanian Iyer (2010)
Anant D. Jhingran (2010)
Charles Johnson (2010)
David Ferrucci (2011)
Renato Recio (2011)
Bradford Brooks (2011)
Steven W Hunter (2011)
Nagui Halim (2011)
Stefan Pappe (2011)
Wolfgang Roesner (2011)
Bob Blainey (2011)
Luba Cherbakov (2012)[14]
Paul Coteus (2012)[14]
Ronald Fagin (2012)[14]
Vincent Hsu (2012)[14]
Jeff Jonas (2012)[14]
Ruchir Puri (2012)[14]
Balaram Sinharoy (2012)[14]
Neil Bartlett (2013)[15]
Jon Casey (2013)[15]
Monty Denneau (2013)[15]
Jason McGee (2013)[15]
John Ponzo (2013)[15]
Heike Riel (2013)[15]
Dinesh Verma (2013)[15]
Chandu Visweswariah (2013)[15]
Sandy Bird (2014) [16]
Rhonda Childress (2014) [16]
Alessandro Curioni (2014) [16]
Tamar Eilam (2014) [16]
Mike Haydock (2014) [16]
Namik Hrle (2014) [16]
Dharmendra Modha (2014) [16]
Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović (2014) [16]
Krishna Ratakonda (2014) [16]
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan (2014) [16]
Andy Walls (2014) [16]
Donna Dillenberger (2015) [17]
Chitra Dorai (2015) [17]
Michael Factor (2015) [17]
Steve Fields (2015) [17]
Mickey Iqbal (2015) [17]
Bala Rajaraman (2015) [17]
Berni Schiefer (2015) [17]
James Sexton (2015) [17]
Jing Shyr (2015) [17]
John Smith (2015) [17]
Mac Devine (2016) [3]
Blaine Dolph (2016) [3]
Stacy Joines (2016) [3]
Shankar Kalyana (2016) [3]
Adam Kocoloski (2016) [3]
Bill Kostenko (2016) [3]
JR Rao (2016) [3]
Salim Roukos (2016) [3]
Ajay Royyuru (2016) [3]
Gosia Steinder (2016) [3]
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (2016) [3]

Notes

"There are but a few," IBM Corporation, 1981
650 Chronology, IBM Corporation, retrieved June 16, 2013, "Refinement of the concepts and engineering design of the eventual production 650 system were carried out in the early-1950s, principally at IBM's laboratory in Endicott, N.Y., under the direction of Frank E. Hamilton, Ernest S. Hughes, Jr., and James J. Troy, who were the chief inventors."
2016 IBM Fellows
David W. Kean, "IBM San Jose A Quarter Century of Innovation" IBM Corp. circa 1977
Herman Heine Goldstine, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
Richard Goering: “Bill Beausoleil, 1950s Computer Pioneer, Shapes RTL Emulation Technology Today”, Industry Insights Blog, Cadence. November 15, 2012.
″Harlan D. Mills retires,″ press release, IBM Federal Systems Division. June 23, 1987. (Last page in linked document.)
"Honorary Fellows - 2003 - Professor Sir Alec Broers". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
"Computer Pioneers - George Radin". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
"IBM Names Three Fellows For Technical Contributions". Computerworld. May 25, 1981. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
DRAM - the Team
Short bio 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.
“Five top innovators named IBM Fellows”, IBM. 2004.
2012 IBM Fellows, IBM.
"IBM Awards Highest Technical Honor to Eight New Fellows as Company Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Program". IBM. April 3, 2013.
2014 IBM Fellows

2015 IBM Fellows

References

The Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) commemorative book for each year lists the IBM Fellows designated in that year. In 2009, a similar Corporate Technical Recognition (CTR) book was published, but there was no CTRE. 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 11–14, 1987, Orlando, Florida
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
IBM CTR Book, individually distributed, 2009
IBM CTR Book, individually distributed, 2010

External links

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