Gennaro "Jerry" Cuomo (born 1962) is an American software engineer who has worked for IBM since 1987. Holding the title of IBM Fellow,IBM Appoints Eight New Fellows to Drive Innovation
/ref> Cuomo is known as one of the founding fathers of

IBM WebSphere IBM WebSphere refers to a brand of proprietary computer software products in the genre of enterprise software known as "application and integration middleware". These software products are used by end-users to create and integrate applications wi ...

Software, a

software framework In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software. It provides a standard ...

and middleware that hosts Java-based web applications.February 2005, IBM Redbook, WebSphere Product Family Overview and Architecture, G. Cuomo, et al.
/ref> Cuomo has filed for over 50 US patentsJerry Cuomo's U.S. Patents
/ref> and has been cited over 3000 times.Jerry Cuomo's Scholar Citations
/ref> His most visible patent is the first use of the ''"Someone is typing..."'' indicator found in instant messaging applications (U.S. Patent 5,990,887).'Someone is typing...' US Patent 5,990,887
/ref>'Someone's typing...': The history behind text messaging's most dreadful feature
/ref> At IBM, Cuomo has led projects in the areas of:

Blockchain A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that consists of growing lists of records, called ''blocks'', that are securely linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a ...

,IBM Blockchain Blogs – Gennaro ‘Jerry’ Cuomo
/ref> APIs, July 2014 - Why the growing API economy gives developers limitless opportunities
/ref> cloud computing, Jerry Cuomo on Cloud Computing and IBM’s PaaS
/ref> Interview: Jerry Cuomo Discusses Virtualization, Cloud Computing and WebSphere Virtual Enterprise
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mobile computing Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...

,Youtube video, Jerry Cuomo - Engaging Enterprise
/ref> IBM and 10Gen collaborate on database standard for enterprise mobile
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Internet of Things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...

, IBM tackles M2M's big data challenge
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web server A web server is computer software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, commonly a web browser or web crawler, initiate ...

performance & availability, May 2004, IBM Systems Journal, Designing WebSphere Application Server for performance, R. Willenborg, K Brown, G. Cuomo
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/ref> web security,Method and apparatus for processing requests in a network data processing system based on a trust association between servers, N. Nagaratnam, W. Jamison, GA. Cuomo
/ref> web caching,Context Sensitive Caching, Cuomo, Martin, Ferguson, Et al.
/ref> edge computing,June 2005, ACM – SIGMOD 2005, IBM SOA on the Edge, G. Cuomo
/ref> service-oriented architectureAugust 2007, SearchWebServices.com, WebSphere CTO champions Web SOA on Project Zero
/ref> and REST.IBM affirms Restful SOA & dynamic languages with Project Zero
/ref> Cuomo is the co-author of the book, ''Blockchain for Business'',
/ref> that illustrates how blockchain technology is re-imagining many of the world's most fundamental business interactions and opening the door to new styles of digital interactions that have yet to be imagined. In March 2016House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing & Trade ‘How to Capitalize on Blockchain’ March 16, 2016
/ref> and 2018,House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Oversight & Subcommittee Research and Technology "Beyond Bitcoin: Emerging Applications for Blockchain Technology" February 14, 2018
/ref> Cuomo was called upon by the United States government as an expert witness to testify to US Energy and Commerce Committee on Digital Currency and Blockchain. During his 2016 testimony Cuomo urged the Obama administration to adopt Blockchain as a primary means to protect citizen identity and to enhance national security. His testimony can be seen on YouTube.Vice Chairman Marshall’s Q&A on "Beyond Bitcoin: Emerging Applications for Blockchain Technology" February 14, 2018
/ref> Cuomo is currently the VP of Technology within IBM's Consulting business unit, where he is driving the technical strategy for AI-powered automation.AI-Powered Automation is Enterprise Automation 2.0
/ref> In 2022, he published two books titled ''Think Blockchain''Think Blockchain by Jerry Cuomo
/ref> and ''The Art of Automation'',The Art of Automation by Jerry Cuomo, et al.
/ref> both accompanied by podcastsPodcasts hosted by Jerry Cuomo on Spotify
/ref> of the same name.

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