An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM's CEO.
- IBM FellowGomory worked at IBM as a researcher and later as an executive.
- Ralph E. GomoryIn 1964 he was appointed IBM Fellow.
- Ralph E. GomoryAfter reaching the mandatory retirement age of 60 for corporate officers at IBM, Gomory became president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1989.
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- IBM FellowThe company's most prestigious designation is that of IBM Fellow.
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Gerd Binnig
German physicist.
In 1978, Binnig accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zürich research group, where he worked with Heinrich Rohrer, Christoph Gerber and Edmund Weibel.
In 1987 Binnig was appointed IBM Fellow.
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode, which exploited that phenomenon.
Esaki moved to the United States in 1960 and joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he became an IBM Fellow in 1967.
K. Alex Müller
Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate.
In 1982 he became an IBM Fellow.
At IBM his research for almost 15 years centered on SrTiO3 (strontium titanate) and related perovskite compounds.
Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
In 1963, he joined the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon under the direction of Ambros Speiser.
He was appointed IBM Fellow in 1986, and led the physics department of the research lab from 1986 until 1988.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States.
The project was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which contributed significant funding.
IBM Research
IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries.
Fred Brooks (known for his book The Mythical Man-Month), Peter Brown, Larry Carter, Gregory Chaitin, John Cocke, Alan Cobham, Edgar F. Codd, Don Coppersmith, Wallace Eckert, Ronald Fagin, Horst Feistel, Jeanne Ferrante, Zvi Galil, Ralph E. Gomory, Jim Gray, Joseph Halpern, Kenneth E. Iverson, Frederick Jelinek, Reynold B. Johnson, Benoit Mandelbrot, Robert Mercer (businessman), C. Mohan, Kirsten Moselund, Michael O. Rabin, Arthur Samuel, Barbara Simons, Alfred Spector, Gardiner Tucker, Moshe Vardi, John Vlissides, Mark N. Wegman and Shmuel Winograd.
The team led by Chieko Asakawa (:ja:浅川智恵子), IBM Fellow since 2009, provided basic technology for IBM's software programs for the visually handicapped, IBM Home Page Reader in 1997 and IBM aiBrowser (:ja:aiBrowser) in 2007.
Alfred P. Sloan
American business executive in the automotive industry.
In 1934, he established the philanthropic, nonprofit Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Sloan Research Fellowship
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars".
Wikimedia Foundation
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, registered as a charitable foundation under US law.
In March 2008, the Foundation announced what was then its largest donation yet: a three-year, US$3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
