IBM Fellow

An IBM Fellow is a position at IBM appointed by the 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.

Overview

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. 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. 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 April 2022, only 331 IBMers have earned the IBM Fellow distinction, and 84 of them remain active IBM employees. IBM Fellows have generated over 9,329 patents and thousands of government and professional citations, received five Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards, and created a massive store of published research in scientific journals.

List of IBM Fellows

In chronological order, as of 2023:

Notes

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, Scottsdale, 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

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