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.

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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.IBM Fellows homepage on IBM.com
/ref> 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

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Fran Allen Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing ...

became the first female IBM Fellow. IBM Fellows are given broad latitude to identify and pursue projects in their area of expertise. , 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, thousands of government and professional citations, received five

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and five Turing Awards, and have a massive store of published research in scientific journals.

List of IBM Fellows

In chronological order, : *Francis E. Hamilton (1963) *Ronald D. Dodge (1963) *C.R. Doty, Sr. (1963) *Clyde J. Fitch (1963) * 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) *Laurence A. Wilson (1964) *Jonas E. Dayger (1964) * Gene Amdahl (1965) * Reynold B. Johnson (1965) *S.W. Dunwell (1966) *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) *L.R. Harper (1968) David W. Kean, "IBM San Jose A Quarter Century of Innovation" IBM Corp. circa 1977 *

Peter Sorokin Peter Pitirimovich Sorokin ( rus, Пётр Питиримович Сорокин, 10 July 1931 – 24 September 2015) was an American Russian physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. He was born in Boston and grew up in Winchester, Massachuset ...

(1968) *Leon E. Palmer *E. Alan Brown (1969) *H.G. Kolsky (1969) * Rolf Landauer (1969) * Herman Goldstine (1969) *Jacob Riseman (1969)*
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*Charles E. Owen (1969) *Wouter Vanderkulk (1969) *D. DeWitt (1970) * Enrico Clementi (1970) *Victor R. Witt (1970) *

Kenneth E. Iverson Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 – 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the programming language APL. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 "for his pioneering effort in programming l ...

(1971) * J. B. Gunn (1971) *Joseph C. Logue (1971) *Bill Beausoleil (1972) * John Cocke (1972) * Shmuel Winograd (1972) *

Harlan Mills Harlan D. Mills (May 14, 1919 – January 8, 1996) was Professor of Computer Science at the Florida Institute of Technology and founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. of Vero Beach, Florida (since acquired by Q-Labs). Mills' cont ...

(1973) *R.G. Brewer (1973) *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) *

Henri Nussbaumer Henri J. Nussbaumer is a French engineer born in Paris, France in 1931. After graduating in 1954 from the Ecole Centrale Paris, he joined IBM in the Paris development laboratory where he initially worked on solid state circuits. In 1960, he tran ...

(1975) *Joseph P. Pawletko (1975) *

James H. Pomerene James Herbert Pomerene (June 22, 1920 – December 7, 2008) was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Biography Pomerene was born June 22, 1920 in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower. He receive ...

(1976) * Edgar F. Codd (1976) * Heinz Zemanek (1976) *Carl A. Queener (1976) *Donald K. Rex (1977) *Thomas H Simpson (1977) *

Alec N. Broers Alec Nigel Broers, Baron Broers, (born 17 September 1938) is a British electrical engineer. In 1994 Broers was elected an international member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to electronic beam lithography and microsco ...

(1977) * Alan J. Hoffman (1978) * Robert Dennard (1979) *

Siegfried K. Wiedmann Siegfried K. Wiedmann (born in 1938) is a German electrical engineer noted for his contributions to semiconductor technologies for integrated circuits. Wiedmann was born in Plochingen, Germany. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur (1963) and Doctor-Ing ...

(1979) *David E. Cuzner (1979) * David A. Thompson (1980) *Richard E. Blahut (1980) * George Radin (1980) *Robert E. Pattison (1980) *Donald Seraphim (1981) * Edward H. Sussenguth (1981) *Janusz S. Wilczynski (1981) *

K. Alex Müller Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials. Biography Mülle ...

(1982) *Edward B. Eichelberger (1982) *Richard Chu (1983) * Alan Fowler (1983) *

Charles Denis Mee Charles Denis Mee is an engineer, physicist, and author who is noted for his contributions in the areas of magnetic recording and data storage on hard disk drives (HDD). A large part of his career was with IBM in San Jose California. He is the a ...

(1983) *Werner Kulcke (1983) *James P. Gray (1984) *

Allan L. Scherr Allan L. Scherr (born November 18, 1940) is an American computer scientist notable for his work in time-sharing operating systems and leading the original development of the IBM MVS operating system, used on IBM mainframe computers. Scherr w ...

(1984) *Mu-Yue (Ben) Hsiao (1984) *Rao R. Tummala (1984) * Gottfried Ungerboeck (1984) * Hans Pfeiffer (1985) *

Jerry Woodall Jerry M. Woodall is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Davis who is widely known for his revolutionary work on LEDs and semiconductors. Over the course of his career, he has published close to 400 s ...

(1985) * G. Glenn Henry (1985) *C. Grant Willson (1985) * Gerd Binnig (1986) *Dale L. Critchlow (1986) *James M. Kasson (1986) * Heinrich Rohrer (1986) *Arvind M. Patel (1986) * 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 Mike Cowlishaw is a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is a retired IBM Fellow, and was a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Techn ...

(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 Donald M. Eigler (March 23, 1953) is an American physicist associated with the IBM Almaden Research Center, who is noted for his achievements in nanotechnology. Work In 1989, Eigler was the first to use a scanning tunneling microscope tip to arra ...

(1993) * Peter Kogge (1993) *Anthony Temple (1993) *Charles R. Hoffman (1993) *Martin E. Hopkins (1993) *James T Brady (1993) *

Diane Pozefsky Diane P. Pozefsky is a research professor at the University of North Carolina in the department of Computer Science. Pozefsky was awarded the Women in Technology International (WITI) 2011 Hall of Fame Award for contributions to the fields of Sc ...

(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 Jean Calvignac is an IBM Fellow and was responsible for the architecture of PowerNP, an IBM network processor. He holds more than 220 patents. Career In 1998, at the IBM Laboratory in the Research Triangle Park, Calvignac and his team initi ...

(1997) * C. Mohan (1997) *Ramesh C. Agarwal (1997) *Cesar A. Gonzales (1998) *Steven R. Hetzler (1998) *

Tze-Chiang Chen Dr. Chen Tze-chiang, or T. C. Chen (), joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1984. He is currently an IBM Fellow and the Vice President of Science and Technology at Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM Research Division in Yorktown H ...

(1999) *

Irene Greif Irene Greif is an American computer scientist and a founder of the field of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Biography Greif's ...

(1999) *Alex Morrow (1999) *

Stuart Parkin Stuart Stephen Papworth Parkin (born 9 December 1955) is an experimental physicist, IBM Fellow and manager of the magnetoelectronics group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is also a consulting professor in the dep ...

(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 Donald Ferguson (born 1960) is a Technical Fellow and Chief SW Architect at Ansys, Inc. Before joining Ansys, Ferguson was a Professor of Professional Practice in Computer Science at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia in 2018, he was vic ...

(2001) * Jai M. Menon (2001) *

Joan L. Mitchell Joan Laverne Mitchell (May 24, 1947 – December 2, 2015) was an American computer scientist, data compression pioneer, and inventor who, as a researcher at IBM, co-invented the JPEG digital image format. Early life Mitchell was born on M ...

(2001) *Arimasa Naitoh (2001) *Jeffrey M. Nick (2001) * Ghavam Shahidi (2001) * Rakesh Agrawal (2002) *Michael H. Hartung (2002) *

James A. Kahle James is a common English language surname and given name: * James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambigua ...

(2002) *Maurice J. Perks (2002) *Anthony A. Storey (2002) * Grady Booch (2003) * Donald D. Chamberlin (2003) *

George M. Galambos George Galambos (born in Budapest) is a computer engineer. He is an IBM Fellow (2003), an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He graduated the Budapest Technical University ( Budapest University of Technol ...

(2003) *Rodney A. Smith (2003) *Charles F. Webb (2003) * Phaedon Avouris (2004)“Five top innovators named IBM Fellows”
IBM. 2004. *Curt L. Cotner (2004) *David L. Harame (2004) *Audrey A. Helffrich (2004) *Kevin A. Stoodley (2004) *

Evangelos S. Eleftheriou Evangelos Eleftheriou ( el, Ευάγγελος Ελευθερίου) is a Greek electrical engineer. He is an IBM Fellow and was responsible for the Cloud and Computing Infrastructure department at the IBM Research – Zurich laboratory in Rüsch ...

(2005) *Larry M. Ernst (2005) * Ed Kahan (2005) *Bradley D. McCredie (2005) *Yun Wang (2005) *Thomas M. Bradicich (2006)“IBM Appoints Eight New Fellows to Drive Innovation”
IBM. 2006. * John Maxwell Cohn (2006) * Gennaro A. Cuomo (2006) *Daniel C. Edelstein (2006) *Alan Gara (2006) *Ray Harishankar (2006) *

Kerrie L. Holley Kerrie Lamont Holley is an American software architect, author, researcher, consultant, and inventor. He recently joined Industry Solutions, Google Cloud. Previously he was with UnitedHealth Group / Optum, their first Technical Fellow, where ...

(2006) *Carol A. Jones (2006) *

Brenda L. Dietrich Brenda Lynn Jorgensen Dietrich is an American operations researcher, the Arthur and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice in the School of Operations Research at Cornell University. She has been Vice President of Business Analytics and Mathematic ...

(2007) *David B. Lindquist (2007) *Martin P. Nally (2007) *Edward J. Seminaro (2007) *

Mark N. Wegman Mark N. Wegman is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to algorithms and compiler optimization. Wegman received his B.A. from New York University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined IBM Resea ...

(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 Nicholas Michael Donofrio (born September 7, 1945) is an American scientist and engineer and was the Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation until 2008. Upon retirement, he was selected as an honorary IBM Fello ...

(2008) * Chieko Asakawa (2009) “IBM Honors Eight Employees with Highest Technical Award”
IBM. 2009. * Laura M. Haas (2009) *Michael A. Kaczmarski (2009) *Hung Q. Le (2009) *Roger R. Schmidt (2009) *Martín-J Sepúlveda (2009) *Satya P. Sharma (2009) *Tim J. Vincent (2009) *James C. Colson (2010) *Jeffrey A. Frey (2010) *Alfred Grill (2010) *Subramanian Iyer (2010) *Anant D. Jhingran (2010) *Charles Johnson (2010) *

David Ferrucci David Ferrucci was the principal investigator who in 2007–2011 led a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers to the development of the Watson computer system that won a television quiz. Ferrucci graduated from Manhattan College, w ...

(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)2012 IBM Fellows
IBM. *Paul Coteus (2012) * Ronald Fagin (2012) *Vincent Hsu (2012) *Jeff Jonas (2012) *

Ruchir Puri Ruchir Puri is an Indian American scientist, CTO and chief architect of IBM Watson, an IBM Fellow and currently Chief Scientist of IBM Research. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of IBM Academy of Technology and IBM Master Inventor, an ACM Dist ...

(2012) *Balaram Sinharoy (2012) *Neil Bartlett (2013) *Jon Casey (2013) * Monty Denneau (2013) *Jason McGee (2013) *John Ponzo (2013) * Heike Riel (2013) *Dinesh Verma (2013) *Chandu Visweswariah (2013) *Sandy Bird (2014) 2014 IBM Fellows
/ref> *Rhonda Childress (2014) *Alessandro Curioni (2014) * Tamar Eilam (2014) *Mike Haydock (2014) *Namik Hrle (2014) * Dharmendra Modha (2014) * Aleksandra Mojsilović (2014) *Krishna Ratakonda (2014) *Shivakumar Vaithyanathan (2014) *Andy Walls (2014) *Donna Dillenberger (2015) 2015 IBM Fellows
/ref> *Chitra Dorai (2015) *Michael Factor (2015) *Steve Fields (2015) *Mickey Iqbal (2015) *Bala Rajaraman (2015) *Berni Schiefer (2015) *James Sexton (2015) *Jing Shyr (2015) *John Smith (2015) *Mac Devine (2016) 2016 IBM Fellows
/ref> *Blaine Dolph (2016) *Stacy Joines (2016) *Shankar Kalyana (2016) *Adam Kocoloski (2016) *Bill Kostenko (2016) *JR Rao (2016) *Salim Roukos (2016) *Ajay Royyuru (2016) *Gosia Steinder (2016) *Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (2016) * Charlie Hill (2017) 2017 IBM Fellows
/ref> * Dakshi Agrawal (2017) * Ed Calusinski (2017) * Hillery Hunter (2017) * Hugo M. Krawczyk (2017) * Matt Huras (2017) * Matthias Steffen (2017) * Rachel Reinitz (2017) * Sam Lightstone (2017) * Sridhar Muppidi (2017) *Eric Herness (2017) * Harry Kolar (2018)
IBM. Retrieved 2018-04-13. *

Jay Gambetta Jay M. Gambetta is a scientist and executive, leading the team at IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center working to build a quantum computer. Education Following his Bachelor of Science and Honours degree at Griffith University in 1999 (gaining four ...

(2018) * Jianying Hu (2018) * Kyle Brown (2018) * Mike Williams (2018) * Paul Taylor (2018) * Teresa Hamid (2018) * Vijay Narayanan (2018) * Ann Corrao (2019) * Chris Ferris (2019) * Elpida Tzortzatos (2019) *

Gustavo Stolovitzky Gustavo A. Stolovitzky is an Argentine-American Computational systems biology, computational systems biologist. He is an IBM Fellow and the Director of the Translational Systems Biology and Nano-Biotechnology Program at IBM Research. He serves as ...

(2019) * Laxmi Parida (2019) * Ram Viswanathan (2019) * Rama Akkiraju (2019) * Rashik Parmar (2019) *Mohamed Ahmed (2020) *Ajay Apte (2020) *Andreas Bieswanger (2020) *Catherine Crawford (2020) *Nduwuisi Emuchay (2020) *Marc Fiammante (2020) *Kailash Gopalakrishnan (2020) *

Shalini Kapoor Shalini Kapoor is an innovator and chief technology officer for IBM AI Application. Early life Shalini was born and raised in India, growing up in the city of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. She earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Sc ...

(2020) *Jim Olson (2020) *Emi Olsson (2020) * Francesca Rossi (2020) *Ranjan Sinha (2020) *Faried Abrahams (2021) *Roland Barcia (2021) *Sergey Bravyy (2021) *Oliver Dial (2021) *Andrew Hately (2021) *Nataraj Nagaratnam (2021) *Tetsuya Nikami (2021) * Maja Vuković (2021) *Vita Bortnikov (2022) *

Jerry Chow Jerry M. Chow is a physicist who conducts research in quantum information processing. He has worked as the manager of the Experimental Quantum Computing group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York since 20 ...

(2022) *Christian Jacobi (2022) *AB Vijay Kumar (2022) *Marcel Mitran (2022) *Rosalind Radcliffe (2022)

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, 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

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