An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM's

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. 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. Thomas John Watson Jr. (January 14, 1914 – December 31, 1993) was an American businessman, political figure, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president (195 ...

, 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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."There are but a few," IBM Corporation, 1981 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. , 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 Nobel Prizes 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 Ralph Edward Gomory (born May 7, 1929) is an American applied mathematician and executive. Gomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive. During that time, his research led to the creation of new areas of applied mathematics. ...

(1964) * Robert Henle (1964) *James A. Weidenhammer (1964) *Laurence A. Wilson (1964) *Jonas E. Dayger (1964) *

Gene Amdahl Gene Myron Amdahl (November 16, 1922 – November 10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation ...

(1965) *

Reynold B. Johnson Reynold B. Johnson (July 16, 1906September 15, 1998) was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the hard disk drive. Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipment ...

(1965) *S.W. Dunwell (1966) *George T. Judson (1966) *James M. Brownlow (1967) *George F. Daly (1967) *

Wallace Eckert Wallace John Eckert (June 19, 1902 – August 24, 1971) was an American astronomer, who directed the Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau at Columbia University which evolved into the research division of IBM. Life Wallace John Eckert ...

(1967) *

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 ...

(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 (1968) *Leon E. Palmer *E. Alan Brown (1969) *H.G. Kolsky (1969) *

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 dis ...

(1969) *

Herman Goldstine Herman Heine Goldstine (September 13, 1913 – June 16, 2004) was a mathematician and computer scientist, who worked as the director of the IAS machine at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study and helped to develop ENIAC, th ...

(1969) *Jacob Riseman (1969)*
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*Charles E. Owen (1969) *Wouter Vanderkulk (1969) *D. DeWitt (1970) *

Enrico Clementi Enrico Clementi (November 19, 1931 in Cembra, Italy - March 30, 2021) was an Italian chemist, a pioneer in computational techniques for quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics. Dr. Clementi received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of ...

(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 John Battiscombe "J. B." Gunn (13 May 1928 – 2 December 2008), known as Ian or Iain, was a British physicist, who spent most of his career in the United States. He discovered the Gunn effect, which led to the invention of the Gunn diode, t ...

(1971) *Joseph C. Logue (1971) *Bill Beausoleil (1972) * John Cocke (1972) *

Shmuel Winograd __NOTOC__ Shmuel Winograd ( he, שמואל וינוגרד; January 4, 1936 – March 25, 2019) was an Israeli-American computer scientist, noted for his contributions to computational complexity. He has proved several major results regarding the ...

(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' contr ...

(1973) *R.G. Brewer (1973) *Robert A. Nelson (1973) *William E. Harding (1973) *Dean Eastman (1974) *

Jack Harker John Mason "Jack" Harker (June 29, 1926 – April 27, 2013) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and product and program manager who pioneered development of disk storage systems.

(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 Alan Jerome Hoffman (May 30, 1924 – January 18, 2021) was an American mathematician and IBM Fellow emeritus, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was the founding editor of the journal ''Linear Algebra and its A ...

(1978) *

Robert Dennard Robert Heath Dennard (born September 5, 1932) is an American electrical engineer and inventor. Biography Dennard was born in Terrell, Texas, U.S. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University, ...

(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 George Radin (January 22, 1931 – May 21, 2013) was an American computer scientist. He gained his BA in English Literature from Brooklyn College in 1951, followed by an MA from Columbia University in 1952 and an MSc in mathematics from City Uni ...

(1980) *Robert E. Pattison (1980) *Donald Seraphim (1981) * Edward H. Sussenguth (1981) *Janusz S. Wilczynski (1981) * K. Alex Müller (1982) *Edward B. Eichelberger (1982) *Richard Chu (1983) * Alan Fowler (1983) * Charles 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 Gottfried Ungerboeck (born 15 March 1940, Vienna) is an Austrian communications engineer. Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree (with emphasis on telecommunications) from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. from th ...

(1984) * Hans Pfeiffer (1985) * Jerry Woodall (1985) * G. Glenn Henry (1985) *C. Grant Willson (1985) *

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 wa ...

(1986) *Dale L. Critchlow (1986) *James M. Kasson (1986) *

Heinrich Rohrer Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst ...

(1986) *Arvind M. Patel (1986) * Lubomyr Romankiw (1986) *

Georg Bednorz Johannes Georg Bednorz (; born 16 May 1950) is a German physicist who, together with K. Alex Müller, discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramics, for which they shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Life and work Bednorz was bo ...

(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 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 ...

(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 Chandrasekaran Mohan is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He was born on 3 August 1955 in Tamil Nadu, India. After growing up there and finishing his undergraduate studies in Chennai, he moved to the United States in 1977 for gradua ...

(1997) *Ramesh C. Agarwal (1997) *Cesar A. Gonzales (1998) *Steven R. Hetzler (1998) * Tze-Chiang Chen (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 (2001) * Jai M. Menon (2001) * Joan L. Mitchell (2001) *Arimasa Naitoh (2001) *Jeffrey M. Nick (2001) *

Ghavam Shahidi Ghavam G. Shahidi (born 1959) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow. He is the director of Silicon Technology at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center. He is best known for his pioneering work in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) c ...

(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 Donald D. Chamberlin is an American computer scientist who is one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of XQuery. Chamberlin was e ...

(2003) * George M. Galambos (2003) *Rodney A. Smith (2003) *Charles F. Webb (2003) *

Phaedon Avouris Phaedon Avouris ( el, Φαίδων Αβούρης; born 1945) is a Greek chemical physicist and materials scientist. He is an IBM Fellow and was formerly the group leader for Nanometer Scale Science and Technology at the Thomas J. Watson Resea ...

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

(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 (2012) *Balaram Sinharoy (2012) *Neil Bartlett (2013) *Jon Casey (2013) *

Monty Denneau Monty M. Denneau is a computer architect and mathematician. Denneau was awarded the 2002 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for "ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computi ...

(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 (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 (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 (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 (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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