IBM Academy of Technology

IBM Academy of Technology

Formation	1989
Headquarters	Somers, NY
Membership	900+
President	Andrea Martin
Website	http://www.ibm.com/ibm/academy/

The IBM Academy of Technology was founded in 1989 and modeled after the US National Academies of Sciences and Engineering. It focuses on the technical underpinnings of IBM’s future. Its membership consists of over 800 of IBM's technical leaders from around the world who are working in research, hardware and software development, manufacturing, applications, and services.

Members are selected to the Academy by their peers. Membership carries with it responsibilities. Primarily, to engage in Academy-sponsored activities and to promote technical growth IBM-wide.

Past Presidents

1989 Ed Sussenguth
1990 Dick Chu
1991 Al Cutaia
1992 Rick Dill
1993 Jim Brady
1994 Fran Allen
1995 Russ Lange
1996 Fred Ris
1997 Bob Guernsey
1999 Ian Brackenbury
2001 Lewis Terman
2003 Dave Ehnebuske
2005 William Tetzlaff
2007 Joanne Martin
2009 Emily Plachy
2012 Rashik Parmar
2014 Andrea Martin

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History	History of IBM Mergers and acquisitions Think (motto) Operating Systems
Products	Cell microprocessor Mainframe Personal Computer IBM Power Systems Information Management Software Lotus Software Rational Software SPSS ILOG Tivoli Software: Service Automation Manager WebSphere alphaWorks Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History Mashup Center PureQuery Redbooks FlashSystem Fortran Connections
Business entities	Center for The Business of Government Cloud computing Global Services International subsidiaries jStart Kenexa Research The Weather Company (Weather Underground) Watson Health
Facilities	Towers 1250 René-Lévesque, Montreal, QC One Atlantic Center, Atlanta, GA Software Labs Rome Software Lab Toronto Software Lab IBM Buildings 330 North Wabash, Chicago, IL Johannesburg Seattle Research Labs Africa Almaden Austin Laboratory Australia Brazil China Laboratory Haifa Laboratory India Laboratory Ireland Thomas J. Watson Center, New York Tokyo Zurich Laboratory Facilities Hakozaki Facility Yamato Facility Cambridge Scientific Center IBM Hursley Canada Head Office Building IBM Rochester Somers Office Complex
Initiatives	Academy of Technology Centers for Advanced Studies: CASCON Deep Thunder IBM Fellow Pulse conference The Great Mind Challenge DeveloperWorks: Develothon Linux Technology Center IBM Virtual Universe Community Smarter Planet World Community Grid
Inventions	Automated teller machine Electronic keypunch Hard disk drive Floppy disk DRAM Relational model Selectric typewriter Financial swaps Universal Product Code Magnetic stripe card Sabre airline reservation system Scanning tunneling microscope
Terminology	Globally Integrated Enterprise Commercial Processing Workload Consumability e-business
CEOs	Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956) Thomas Watson Jr. (1956–1971) T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973) Frank T. Cary (1973–1981) John R. Opel (1981–1985) John Fellows Akers (1985–1993) Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (1993–2002) Samuel J. Palmisano (2002–2011) Ginni Rometty (2012–present)
Board of directors	Alain Belda William R. Brody Kenneth Chenault Michael L. Eskew David Farr Shirley Ann Jackson Andrew N. Liveris James McNerney James W. Owens Samuel J. Palmisano Virginia M. Rometty Joan E. Spero Sidney Taurel Lorenzo Zambrano
Other	A Boy and His Atom Common Public License/IBM Public License Customer engineer Deep Blue Deep Thought Dynamic infrastructure GUIDE International IBM and the Holocaust IBM international chess tournament Lucifer cipher Mathematica IBM Plex SHARE computing ScicomP Watson Quantum Experience

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