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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]
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 ...
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] Her A. M. Turing Award citation reads: Fran Allen's work has had an enormous impact on compiler research and practice.
Diana J. Knight Bendz is an American polymer scientist and environmental and industrial engineer who has promoted environmentally-conscious manufacturing processes in her work at IBM, and promoted the participation of women and girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
The Thomas J. Watson Foundation is a charitable trust formed 1961 in honor of former chairman and CEO of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. [1] The Foundation's stated vision is to empower students “to expand their vision, test and develop their potential, and gain confidence and perspective to do so for others.” [1] The Watson Foundation operates two programs, the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and the ...
From 1986 to 2009 she was a Research Staff Member and Manager at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, founding the Accessibility Research Group in 2000. She is Past Chair of SIGACCESS and was Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing .
ELLE’s 2024 Women of Impact. The Editors. March 27, 2024 at 8:00 AM. ELLE’s 2024 Women of Impact Hearst Owned. Hearst Owned. Our 2024 Women of Impact honorees are freedom fighters and rule ...
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.