The IBM Academy of Technology was founded on May 31, 1989 and modeled after the
US National Academies of
Sciences and
Engineering
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. t focuses on the technical underpinnings of
IBM’s future. Its membership consists of over 700 of IBM's technical leaders from around the world who are working in research, hardware and software development and manufacturing.
Members are selected to the academy by their peers. Membership carries with it responsibilities such as engaging in academy-sponsored activities and promoting technical growth IBM-wide. Original members of the IBM Academy of Technology included
Leo Esaki
Reona Esaki (江崎 玲於奈 ''Esaki Reona'', born March 12, 1925), also known as Leo Esaki, is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling i ...
,
Gerd Binnig
Gerd Binnig (; born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist. He is most famous for having won the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
Early life and education
Binnig ...
,
Benoit Mandelbrot,
Rolf Landauer
Rolf William Landauer (February 4, 1927 – April 27, 1999) was a German-American physicist who made important contributions in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of disor ...
,
Jim Gray,
Lubomyr Romankiw
Lubomyr Taras Romankiw (born 17 April 1931 in Zhovkva, Żółkiew, then part of Poland, nowadays Ukraine) is an IBM Fellow and researcher at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York (state), New York.
Romankiw earned ...
and
Mike Cowlishaw.
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
* 2016 Susan Schreitmueller Smartt
* 2019 Richard Hopkins
References
Academy influence
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External links
IBM's Academy of TechnologyAcademy Blog
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Academy of Technology
The Academy of Technology or AOT is a self-financed undergraduate engineering college in Adisaptagram, Hooghly, West Bengal, India.
It was established in 2003 by Ananda Educational Development and Charitable Organisation, a trust. The colleg ...