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Vice President, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer, Global Technology Services, North America Financial Services Sector By Ronald Gordon In her 23 years with IBM, Emi Olsson has...

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technology Officer of Managed Private Cloud IaaS for Storage By Al McKeon In his first year at Norwalk State Technical College, Jim Olson aspired to start his...

Distinguished Engineer, Lead Architect IBM Z Firmware Development By Mark Joyella “I don’t think of myself as the smartest person in the room,” says Andreas Bieswanger, who credits his...

By James Daly Corville Allen wants to take the mystery out of getting a patent. “It’s not hard—you’ve just got to know what you’re doing,” says Allen, a senior technical staff member...

By Margaret Popper For IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, necessity was definitely the mother of invention. In 1982, as a new graduate of Otemon Gakuin University in Osaka, she was not thrilled by the...

By Matt Hunter Sarbajit Rakshit’s path to becoming an inventor started with a universal desire: to impress his father, a mathematics teacher in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India. While working as...

By Tim Race Sometimes a patentable idea is discovered by accident. Literally. Six years ago, while a doctoral student in computer science at the National University of La Plata, in Argentina,...

By James Daly The cliché often associated with breakthrough inventions imagines the moment of creative insight coming in a flash. As when Newton’s falling apple supposedly inspired his theory...

It’s a remarkable winning streak. Recently, for the 27th consecutive year, IBM announced it had received more U.S. patents than any other company. What’s more, the total for 2019—9,262...

Distinguished Engineer, IBM Cloud By Mark Joyella A few years ago when Ajay Apte’s managers and mentors suggested a move away from a team where he’d had huge success into a new part of the...

IBM Distinguished Research Staff Member, Senior Manager of Accelerator Architectures and Machine Learning High-performance computing usually relies on precise mathematics. So, you might think that...

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Director, AI Applied Research Lab At IBM, Mohamed Ahmed has successfully created new ideas and innovations, made the investment case, then delivered business value for...

IBM Distinguished Engineer with the Cloud Engagement Hub When Nduwuisi Emuchay joined IBM 22 years ago as part of the DBMX Ltd. acquisition, he relocated from London to Austin, Texas. Since then,...

Marc Fiammante has traveled the world many times over—accumulating more than three million frequent flier miles and filling three passports with visas—to directly understand...

Kapoor discusses transformation through technology Distinguished Engineer, Director—Watson IoT India, IBM Cognitive Applications Throughout an IBM career that spans more than 23 years, Shalini...

On Wednesday, July 17, IBM programmers and engineers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 joined Dr. John E. Kelly III, IBM Executive Vice President, to discuss the systems, software and...