IBM Fellow

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. Fellow is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.

IBM Fellow
Awarded for	Position at IBM appointed by the IBM CEO
Sponsored by	IBM
Date	May or June

Overview

IBM Fellow Donna Dillenberger

The IBM Fellows program was founded in 1962 by Thomas Watson Jr., as a way to promote creativity among the company's "most exceptional" technical professionals and is granted in recognition of outstanding and sustained technical achievements and leadership in engineering, programming, services, science, design and technology.[1] 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.[2][3] In 1989, Fran Allen became the first female IBM Fellow.

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

As of 2020, only 317 IBMers have earned the IBM Fellow distinction, and 102 of them remain active IBM employees. IBM Fellows have generated over 9,329 patents, received five Nobel prizes, thousands of government and professional citations and have a massive store of published research in scientific journals.[1]

List of IBM Fellows

In chronological order, as of 2018:

• Francis E. Hamilton (1963)[2]
• Ronald D. Dodge (1963)[2]
• C.R. Doty, Sr. (1963)[2]
• Clyde J. Fitch (1963)[2]
• John Backus (1963)
• Genung L. Clapper (1963)
• Lewellyn H. Thomas (1963)
• Ralph L. Palmer (1963)
• Ralph E. Gomory (1964)
• Robert Henle (1964)
• James A. Weidenhammer (1964)[2]
• Laurence A. Wilson (1964)[2]
• Jonas E. Dayger (1964)
• Gene Amdahl (1965)
• Reynold B. Johnson (1965)
• S.W. Dunwell (1966)[2]
• George T. Judson (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)[2]
• L.R. Harper (1968) [4]
• Peter Sorokin (1968)
• Leon E. Palmer
• E. Alan Brown (1969)[2]
• H.G. Kolsky (1969)[4]
• Rolf Landauer (1969)
• Herman Goldstine (1969)[5]
• Jacob Riseman (1969)*- see Directory
• Charles E. Owen (1969)
• Wouter Vanderkulk (1969)
• D. DeWitt (1970)[4]
• Enrico Clementi (1970)
• Victor R. Witt (1970)[2]
• Kenneth E. Iverson (1971)
• J. B. Gunn (1971)
• Joseph C. Logue (1971)
• Bill Beausoleil (1972)[6]
• John Cocke (1972)
• Shmuel Winograd (1972)
• Harlan Mills (1973)[7]
• R.G. Brewer (1973)[4]
• Robert A. Nelson (1973)
• William E. Harding (1973)
• Dean Eastman (1974)
• Jack Harker (1974)
• Benoît Mandelbrot (1974)
• Charles F. Borteck (1974)
• Harold Fleisher (1974)
• Otto G. Folberth (1974)
• A.R. Heller (1975)[4]
• Henri Nussbaumer (1975)
• Joseph P. Pawletko (1975)
• James H. Pomerene (1976)
• Edgar F. Codd (1976)
• Heinz Zemanek (1976)
• Carl A. Queener (1976)
• Donald K. Rex (1977)
• Thomas H Simpson (1977)
• Alec N. Broers (1977)[8]
• Alan J. Hoffman (1978)
• Robert Dennard (1979)
• Siegfried K. Wiedmann (1979)
• David E. Cuzner (1979)
• David A. Thompson (1980)
• Richard E. Blahut (1980)
• George Radin (1980) [9]
• Robert E. Pattison (1980)
• Donald Seraphim (1981)[10]
• Edward H. Sussenguth (1981)[10]
• Janusz S. Wilczynski (1981)[10]
• K. Alex Müller (1982)
• Edward B. Eichelberger (1982)
• Richard Chu (1983)
• Alan Fowler (1983)
• Denis Mee (1983)
• Werner Kulcke (1983)
• James P. Gray (1984)
• Allan L. Scherr (1984)
• Mu-Yue (Ben) Hsiao (1984)
• Rao R. Tummala (1984)
• Gottfried Ungerboeck (1984)
• Hans Pfeiffer (1985)
• Jerry Woodall (1985)
• G. Glenn Henry (1985)
• C. Grant Willson (1985)
• Gerd Binnig (1986)
• Dale L. Critchlow (1986)[11]
• James M. Kasson (1986)
• 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)
• Nick Pippenger (1987)
• Bernard R. Aken, Jr. (1988)
• Michael Hatzakis (1988)
• James L. Walsh (1988)
• Larry Loucks (1989)
• Alfred Cutaia (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)
• H. Bernhard Pogge (1991)
• Paul H. Bardell (1991)
• Bernard Meyerson (1992)
• Don Eigler (1993)
• Peter Kogge (1993)
• Anthony Temple (1993)
• Charles R. Hoffman (1993)
• Martin E. Hopkins (1993)
• James T Brady (1993)
• Diane Pozefsky (1994)
• Patricia Selinger (1994)
• Celia Yeack-Scranton (1994)
• Johann Greschner (1994)
• Richard R. Oehler (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)
• Ramesh Agarwal (1997)
• Jean Calvignac (1997)
• C. Mohan (1997)
• Ramesh C. Agarwal (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)[14]
• John Maxwell Cohn (2006)[14]
• Gennaro A. Cuomo (2006)[14]
• Daniel C. Edelstein (2006)[14]
• Alan Gara (2006)[14]
• Ray Harishankar (2006)[14]
• Kerrie L. Holley (2006)[14]
• Carol A. Jones (2006)[14]
• 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)
• Nicholas M. Donofrio (2008)
• Chieko Asakawa (2009) [15]
• Laura M. Haas (2009)[15]
• Michael A. Kaczmarski (2009)[15]
• Hung Q. Le (2009)[15]
• Roger R. Schmidt (2009)[15]
• Martín-J Sepúlveda (2009)[15]
• Satya P. Sharma (2009)[15]
• Tim J. Vincent (2009)[15]
• 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)[16]
• Paul Coteus (2012)[16]
• Ronald Fagin (2012)[16]
• Vincent Hsu (2012)[16]
• Jeff Jonas (2012)[16]
• Ruchir Puri (2012)[16]
• Balaram Sinharoy (2012)[16]
• Neil Bartlett (2013)[17]
• Jon Casey (2013)[17]
• Monty Denneau (2013)[17]
• Jason McGee (2013)[17]
• John Ponzo (2013)[17]
• Heike Riel (2013)[17]
• Dinesh Verma (2013)[17]
• Chandu Visweswariah (2013)[17]
• Sandy Bird (2014) [18]
• Rhonda Childress (2014) [18]
• Alessandro Curioni (2014) [18]
• Tamar Eilam (2014) [18]
• Mike Haydock (2014) [18]
• Namik Hrle (2014) [18]
• Dharmendra Modha (2014) [18]
• Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović (2014) [18]
• Krishna Ratakonda (2014) [18]
• Shivakumar Vaithyanathan (2014) [18]
• Andy Walls (2014) [18]
• Donna Dillenberger (2015) [19]
• Chitra Dorai (2015) [19]
• Michael Factor (2015) [19]
• Steve Fields (2015) [19]
• Mickey Iqbal (2015) [19]
• Bala Rajaraman (2015) [19]
• Berni Schiefer (2015) [19]
• James Sexton (2015) [19]
• Jing Shyr (2015) [19]
• John Smith (2015) [19]
• Mac Devine (2016) [20]
• Blaine Dolph (2016) [20]
• Stacy Joines (2016) [20]
• Shankar Kalyana (2016) [20]
• Adam Kocoloski (2016) [20]
• Bill Kostenko (2016) [20]
• JR Rao (2016) [20]
• Salim Roukos (2016) [20]
• Ajay Royyuru (2016) [20]
• Gosia Steinder (2016) [20]
• Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (2016) [20]
• Charlie Hill (2017) [21]
• Dakshi Agrawal (2017)[21]
• Ed Calusinski (2017)[21]
• Hillery Hunter (2017)[21]
• Hugo M. Krawczyk (2017)[21]
• Matt Huras (2017)[21]
• Matthias Steffen (2017)[21]
• Rachel Reinitz (2017)[21]
• Sam Lightstone (2017)[21]
• Sridhar Muppidi (2017)[21]
• Eric Herness (2017)
• Harry Kolar (2018)[22]
• Jay Gambetta (2018)[22]
• Jianying Hu (2018)[22]
• Kyle Brown (2018)[22]
• Mike Williams (2018)[22]
• Paul Taylor (2018)[22]
• Teresa Hamid (2018)[22]
• Vijay Narayanan (2018)[22]
• Ann Corrao (2019)[23]
• Chris Ferris (2019)[23]
• Elpida Tzortzatos (2019)[23]
• Gustavo Stolovitzky (2019)[23]
• Laxmi Parida (2019)[23]
• Ram Viswanathan (2019)[23]
• Rama Akkiraju (2019)[23]
• Rashik Parmar (2019)[23]
• Mohamed Ahmed (2020)
• Ajay Apte (2020)
• Andreas Bieswanger (2020)
• Catherine Crawford (2020)
• Nduwuisi Emuchay (2020)
• Marc Fiammante (2020)
• Kailash Gopalakrishnan (2020)
• Shalini Kapoor (2020)
• Jim Olson (2020)
• Emi Olsson (2020)
• Francesca Rossi (2020)
• Ranjan Sinha (2020)

Notes

1. IBM Fellows homepage on IBM.com
2. "There are but a few," IBM Corporation, 1981
3. 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.
4. David W. Kean, "IBM San Jose A Quarter Century of Innovation" IBM Corp. circa 1977
5. Herman Heine Goldstine, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
6. Richard Goering: “Bill Beausoleil, 1950s Computer Pioneer, Shapes RTL Emulation Technology Today”, Industry Insights Blog, Cadence. November 15, 2012.
7. ″Harlan D. Mills retires,″ press release, IBM Federal Systems Division. June 23, 1987. (Last page in linked document.)
8. "Honorary Fellows - 2003 - Professor Sir Alec Broers". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
9. "Computer Pioneers – George Radin". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
10. "IBM Names Three Fellows For Technical Contributions". Computerworld. May 25, 1981. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
11. DRAM - the Team
12. 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.
13. “Five top innovators named IBM Fellows”, IBM. 2004.
14. “IBM Appoints Eight New Fellows to Drive Innovation”, IBM. 2006.
15. “IBM Honors Eight Employees with Highest Technical Award”, IBM. 2009.
16. 2012 IBM Fellows, IBM.
17. "IBM Awards Highest Technical Honor to Eight New Fellows as Company Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Program". IBM. April 3, 2013.
18. 2014 IBM Fellows
19. 2015 IBM Fellows
20. 2016 IBM Fellows
21. 2017 IBM Fellows
22. "2018 IBM Fellows", IBM. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
23. "IBM 2019 Fellows". IBM. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

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, San Francisco, California
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 11–14, 1987, Orlando, Florida
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 16–19, 1988
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 4–7, 1990, San Diego, California
  • 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, Palm Beach, Florida
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 4–7, 2002, Naples, Florida
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 2–5, 2003, Scotsdale, Arizona
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 25–28, 2004, Boca Raton, Florida
  • 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

• IBM Fellows
• IBM Fellows Directory