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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 ...
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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]
Dietrich was named an IBM Fellow in 2007. [5] [7] She is also a Fellow of INFORMS, elected in 2010, [8] [9] and was the 2010 winner of the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science, and the 2021 winner of the INFORMS President's Award.
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]
Rhonda Childress is an IBM Fellow Vice President of GTS (Global Technology Services). [1] She has earned the title of being the first Services woman to be called an IBM Master Inventor, Security Fellow, and the first Fellow from a predominantly African-American college from spending her whole career in SO (Strategic Outsourcing).
Wanda Gass, Texas Instruments Fellow; executive director and founder, High-Tech High Heels ("HTHH"), a donor-advised fund at Dallas Women's Foundation that funds programs to prepare girls to pursue degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) [43] [44] [45] (see also Wanda Gass oral history)
After completing her doctorate, Johnson became a researcher for IBM Research at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. [1] [4] At IBM, she worked on parallel and shared memory systems, parallel I/O, networked computing, and the Vesta Parallel File System, [4] and became part of the Deep Blue chess computer project.