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IBM Fellow Donna Dillenberger. 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. [1]
Allen became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. She retired from IBM in 2002, but remained affiliated with the corporation as a Fellow Emerita. In 2007, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award was created in her honor. [13] After retiring, she remained active in programs that encourage women and girls to seek careers in science and computing. [14]
The roots of today's IBM Research began with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. [4] This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations in Westchester County, New York, starting in the 1950s, [5] [6] including the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1961.
The official opening of the new head office at 1 Research Drive, Regina. IBM assumed a controlling financial interest in ISM Canada. IBM outsourced its internal computer operations (host and client-server systems) to ISM. ISM ranked as one of the top 500 Canadian companies, moving up almost 300 places in the survey by Commerce magazine.
Legally established as an international non-profit organisation under Belgian law in November 2005 [2] and governed by an international, multidisciplinary Board of Administration of 11 high ranking women scientists, EPWS constitutes a new strategic instrument in European research policy, [3] complementing various initiatives taken at the European level to ensure a better participation of women ...
Chieko Asakawa (浅川 智恵子, Asakawa Chieko) is a blind Japanese computer scientist, known for her work at IBM Research – Tokyo in accessibility. [1] A Netscape browser plug-in she developed, the IBM Home Page Reader, became the most widely used web-to-speech system available. [2] She is the recipient of numerous industry and government ...
By the end of 1994, IBM ceased new development of OS/2 software. IBM withdrew from the retail desktop PC market entirely, which had become unprofitable due to price pressures in the early 2000s. Three years after Gerstner's 2002 retirement, IBM sold the PC division to Lenovo .
Society for the Psychology of Women Strickland-Daniel Mentoring Award Candice Feiring (stub) Social psychologist known for work on adolescent relationships and adjustment following sexual abuse Michelle Fine (flags) Kurt Lewin Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; APA Carolyn Wood Sherif Award; APA Award for Distinguished ...