Hung Le
Tell Hung Le it can't be done – then sit back and watch him do it.
"When people tell me something is impossible, I take that as a challenge," says the new
IBM Fellow and one of the world's leading microprocessor designers. "When I see other
companies fail on something, it doesn't mean the idea is bad. If I think it's a good idea, I'll
keep on researching it. If it makes sense, I'll make it work."
The chief architect behind IBM's game-changing POWER microprocessor technology
knows all about overcoming long odds. Hung was only 16 years old in 1975 when the
North Vietnamese army overran Saigon. Hung and his family joined thousands of
refugees fleeing the country.
"My parents and five brothers and sisters made it out and eventually we made our way to
a refugee camp in on an army base in California and then settled in New York State."
Hung recalled. "We practically lost everything, but we were fortunate to get out
together."
After a couple of years in a community college, Hung won a scholarship to Clarkson
University in Potsdam, NY, earning a degree in electrical and computer engineering.
Hung began his IBM career in Poughkeepsie, working on the mainframe processors for
the System/3090. While working on the H2 mainframe, Hung developed algorithms
behind the first out-of-order processor at IBM, a key technical breakthrough.
Since 1991, Hung has worked in Austin and has been a key player in IBM's enormous
success with POWER processor technology – the engine behind IBM's comeback and
current dominance in the UNIX marketplace.
In 2001, Hung cemented his reputation as the magician of the microprocessor as a key
architect of the POWER4. "The whole industry was trying to crack the code for out-oforder architecture which would allow hundred of instructions to be executed out of order
on the same chip. At that time, the industry was looking at 10 or 20 out-of-order
instructions. We were able to do hundreds and improve performance significantly,
allowing for much faster processing. At that time, we were number three in the UNIX
market. That started us on the road back to the top."
With the POWER5, Hung and his team introduced Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)
technology to IBM, an advancement that subsequently became a feature on all IBM
Power systems and games processors. Next came the POWER6 – the fastest
microprocessor in the world – which allows a customerto run a server at the same
performance levels of its predecessor at half the energy consumption. The POWER7,
which Hung and his team are developing now, promises even further improvements when
it makes it to the market next year.
One of the keys to becoming a successful technical leader is resisting the urge to do it
yourself, according to Hung. "I learned this from a technical leader in Poughkeepsie early
in my career. Sometimes it's hard to stand back and encourage people to do things their
own ways. But I've found if I can do that, my team will always come up with things I
never thought of. There's real value in giving technical people the freedom to innovate –
within the parameters you define."
Realizing the grand ambitions inherit in the Smarter Planet agenda starts at the
microprocessor level, asserts the former refugee who has authored more than 70 patents,
most in the intricate world of processor design. "To build an infrastructure to support an
interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, you need systems that can process massive
amounts of data. From the semiconductor point of view, we're hitting a technology
barrier. We have to come up with innovative ways of doing parallel systems while
reducing our power usage and burning up less resource. That's what we're trying to do
with our POWER technology – keep expanding the art of the possible."
Meet IBM's new Fellows
Sam Palmisano this week announced eight new IBM Fellows, the company's highest
technical distinction. They are: Chieko Asakawa, Dr. Martin Sepulveda, Michael
Kaczmarski, Satya Sharma, Hung Le, Roger Schmidt, Laura Haas and Tim Vincent.
Only 218 individuals have earned this designation in the company's history. Seventy-five
are active employees. "IBM Fellows have invented some of the industry's most useful
and profitably applied technologies – much of the computer technology we use today,"
said Sam. "Our 2009 Fellows were handpicked out of thousands to join this elite and
distinguished group of IBM's finest innovators. Thanks to their talent, initiative and sheer
passion, I know that IBM's heritage as an innovation company – the innovation company
– is in good hands."
In the past, IBM Fellows have been the brains behind some of the company's most lauded
technical breakthroughs – from the Fortran computing language to the Scanning
Tunneling Microscope, the first instrument to image atoms.
The newest Fellows have driven important advancements in diverse fields – from
microprocessor design to accessibility technology to the cooling system for the world's
fastest computers. Their backgrounds, from the slums of the South Bronx to the corn
fields of Illinois to the chaos of war-ravaged Saigon, are equally as varied – and
remarkable.
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Chieko Asakawa
At a tender age, Chieko Asakawa lost her sight – but not her vision.
The petite research scientist in the Tokyo Research Lab perhaps has
done more than any single person on the planet to make the wonders
of the World Wide Web accessible to the visually impaired and
others with special needs. Chieko was the lead designer of the IBM
Home Page Reader, the talking Web browser launched in 1997 in
Japanese and later produced in 11 languages and distributed
worldwide. She continues to push the frontiers of the possible in
accessibility technology.
That one day she would reach the pinnacle of IBM's technical ranks
as a Fellow would have scarcely seemed possible four decades ago
to Chieko, then a scared, suddenly blind adolescent. A standout
athlete growing up in Osaka, Chieko's world changed when she
accidentally collided with the side of a pool while swimming,
damaging her optic nerves. The accident happened when she was 11
years old. Three years later, Chieko was completely blind.
"I was very worried about my future. I had no idea what people who
can't see can do with their lives. It took a while to find out what I
could do," Chieko recalled. "But I always knew I should try to make
a difference for others with disabilities."
Learning Braille, particularly with the complexities of the Japanese
language, was difficult for the teenager. In college, she majored in
English literature, reasoning that English would be easier to master
in Braille and picking up the language would help her find a job.
After a few years in a vocational school in Osaka for the blind
learning optical character assembly and computer programming,
Chieko was offered a job as a student researcher at the IBM Tokyo
Research Lab. "Taking the job meant moving away from home for
the first time – a big step when you're blind. But my father
encouraged me, and joining IBM changed my life – and it's been
changing my life ever since."
Immediately, Chieko grasped the power of computers to broaden the
horizons for people with disabilities. "One of my first projects was
developing the Braille Editing System, which makes it easy to input
and edit Braille using an ordinary keyboard and monitor. This has
become a standard among Braille libraries in Japan."
The explosion of the Internet put Chieko's career and influence into
hyper-drive. "It was easy to grasp the potential of the Internet to
improve the lives of people with disabilities, but there were obstacles
to overcome."
Chieko developed software specifically designed to handle coding
used for Web pages. She inserted aural cues to help browsing, such
as using a man's voice for text and a woman's voice for links.
Changing the mindset of Web designers has been an ongoing
mission for Chieko, who completed her doctorate in computer
science at the University of Tokyo in 2004. aDesigner, one of
Chieko's innovations, is a program that graphically shows Web
designers how accessible their pages are – or are not –to those with
poor sight. "As populations age in Japan and U.S. and other places,
poor eyesight is going to increase," Chieko pointed out. "Web
accessibility becomes more and more important."
What's next?
"I'm very interested in applying social computing to improve
accessibility. We're working on a pilot now we call Social
Accessibility. The concept is to enable a blind user who encounters
an accessibility problem while navigating the Web to send a request
to the Social Accessibility server. Then volunteers can fix the
problem by supplying the metadata to make the site accessible. It
will be an open, community-based system similar to Wikipedia."
Chieko's goal as a Fellow is to lead accessibility technology to the
next generation. "Accessibility now is often a compliance-drive area
– that's too limiting. I want to change the way we think about
accessibility so every application is adaptive and accessible from the
beginning. In the next decade, I want to focus on this."
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Dr. Martin Sepulveda
Inside IBM's courtly top medical officer burns the soul of a 1970s
campus radical.
Dr. Martin Sepulveda has taken an unusual route to joining the ranks
of IBM Fellows, a distinction usually reserved for the company's
most revered technologists. But then again, the Puerto Rico native
has defied expectations throughout his life.
The youngest of five, Martin was raised by a single mother in the
tenements of Spanish Harlem. "My mother, God bless her, worked
multiple jobs as a nurse's aid, taking care of other kids, working as
an Avon lady. We got by, but it wasn't easy. We were on welfare for
a while and ate a lot of government surplus Spam and peanut butter."
Martin's mother died at age 63, but lived long enough to see her
youngest son graduate from Harvard Medical School, providing
Carmen Torres "one of the happiest days of her life," the doctor
recalled.
The path to medical school was far from certain for Martin during
his tumultuous undergraduate years, first at Wesleyan University and
later at Yale. "I was a big-time student radical. This was during
Vietnam, students were taking over administration buildings, and I
was part of that – pushing for greater commitment to minority
issues."
The first-generation immigrant also developed a passion for
community health as an undergraduate, working with the urban poor
in Connecticut. At Harvard, he earned a master's in public health
along with his medical degree.
"Medicine at its roots is a social science," says Martin, who spent
several years with the Center for Disease Control working on
occupational health issues with coal miners and textile workers. "It is
grounded in the biological sciences, but it's about making change in
the health of populations and communities."
Martin joined IBM in 1985 at the semiconductor plan in East
Fishkill. "In the wake of the Bhopal industrial disaster, every
government in the Western world increased the regulation,
inspection and control of any industry dealing with chemicals. IBM
was always committed to having safe work environments – and that
required people like me and other specialists to help engineers
design the ventilation, exhaust and discharge systems and do
ongoing medical monitoring."
The new Fellow is widely recognized for his work in promoting
comprehensive primary care in health services. He's played a big
role in helping IBM earn a reputation as an innovator when it comes
to employee health programs – from offering financial incentives for
employees to stay in shape to mandatory safety standards for firms in
IBM's electronics supply chain.
"We have been pioneers as a global enterprise in the area of
employee health. Our commitment is to make all of our facilities
state-of-the-art - so you will find the same workplace conditions
whether you are in an IBM plant in Rochester, Minnesota, or rural
Thailand. This requires some investment. In Thailand, for example,
we had to find new sources of transportation for workers that
included safety features like seat belts and emergency exits. When
people saw IBMers being dropped off from work in these vans with
seat belts, they wanted to work at IBM. This commitment to
workplace safety is one reason IBM is such a desired employer
around the world."
Some of his colleagues kid the affable physician, who has been
married 39 years and has three children and three grandchildren,
about becoming a card-carrying member of the Establishment after
starting out as a student revolutionary. But Martin has found in IBM
an institution that also possesses a restless desire to change the world
for the better.
"At IBM, the ability to make change is phenomenal. We have
pioneered many things that are now part and parcel of all health
plans. We're in the middle of the national debate on how to reform
health care. Through Smarter Planet, we're helping our clients
transform the process of health care by capturing and deploying data
and information, reducing errors that hurt people and are extremely
wasteful. To be part of an organization that has such an impact on
society, that's really cool for a public health person."
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Michael Kaczmarski
What's the secret to becoming a leader in the IBM technical
community?
New IBM Fellow Michael Kaczmarski has found that the
sociological matters every bit as much as the technological in
delivering solutions to market.
"In an organization this size, the act of building relationships with
the right people is as important to getting products to market as
having the right technology," said the Distinguished Engineer and
Tivoli Chief Integration Architect.
In his 27-year IBM career, the Tucson-based technologist has
delivered an outsized contribution in his technical specialty: storage
management. Mike has also been the guiding force behind the
strategy to integrate Tivoli products across IBM's hardware and
software portfolio.
"Bringing Tivoli Storage Manager out of research was one of the
most gratifying career projects I've worked on. I was fortunate to
work with a brilliant team on that technology and then play a lead
role in bringing it to market. I worked closely on Tivoli Storage
Manager for more than a decade."
An avid sailor despite living in the landlocked Arizona desert, Mike
is also a seasoned pilot when it comes to navigating the deep waters
of the IBM organization. "I've learned a great deal from many
people, but particularly from Bob Rees and Alan Ganek – two
outstanding IBM technologists and mentors. Bob and Alan are both
brilliant when it comes to influencing people and understanding how
to get problems solved. Bob can conceive things in his head, and
then build a team to get it done very quickly – an invaluable skill."
Teaming is the essence of innovation at IBM, according to the
University of Arizona graduate who finds the time for some
lecturing and research at his alma mater. "Innovation – a lot of
people don't realize that's a group activity. My name is on a couple
of dozen patents, but always along with someone else. I like to sit in
a room discussing a problem with a team, drawing pictures. In that
process, we inevitably come to the ah-hah moment – it's always a
collaboration."
Mike, also one of the architects behind the IBM TotalStorage
Productivity Center management software, spends significant time
with clients, including American Express, Nestle and the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "I'm a laboratory advocate for a
number of clients. It can be stressful, working through problems,
making sure you are making progress. But it's always helpful to be
grounded in how customers are actually using what we've built. As a
developer, you always have to ask yourself, how is what I'm working
on going to solve a problem for a customer?"
Tivoli's products – with their emphasis on IT optimization – are a
natural fit with Smarter Planet, Mike observed. "More and more
typical assets are becoming IT-enabled – fleets of trucks, railroads,
airplanes – and becoming an extension of the IT infrastructure.
Smarter assets are instrumented so they can be monitored and used
as efficiently as possible, so systems management and services
management ends up including intelligent IT-asset management. A
lot of the smartness in Smarter Planet comes from our ability to
optimize our assets and use them more efficiently."
The married father of a son and daughter views becoming an IBM
Fellow as both a thrilling honor and a solemn duty. "Every step up
on the IBM technical ladder brings the responsibility to help others
up with you. The long term viability of the company will be
determined by how well we continue to grow talented, excited,
motivated people to work on our products."
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Satya Sharma
For Satya Sharma, two-tenths of a mile made a world of difference.
The new IBM Fellow – the company's top UNIX architect– might
well have taken a different career route if not for a serendipitous case
of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. In this case, it
was IBM's early ‘90s moving and living (M&L) expense policy
versus Satya's stubborn will.
"I was working in Kingston at the time, worried about the falling
housing prices, and anticipating a move to Poughkeepsie," Satya
recalled. "To qualify for M&L, you had to live 25 miles away from
the new location. I lived 24.8 miles, so I wouldn't qualify – no
exceptions. I didn't want to commute to Poughkeepsie, so I decided
to find a job at IBM more than 25 miles away."
Satya landed 2000 miles away in Austin, a move that worked out
swimmingly for both IBM and the India native who has lived in the
United States for more than 25 years. As IBM's chief AIX architect
from 2000 to 2005, Satya drove innovations in the operating system
of IBM's UNIX systems that — along with the game-changing
POWER processor technology – have sparked a tremendous IBM
success story. "We've gone from No. 3 to No. 1 and displaced HP
and Sun in dozens of accounts around the world," Satya pointed out.
"Customer collaboration has been a big reason for our success."
Client interaction has become a key function for the Distinguished
Engineer who has relationships with CIOs at many of IBM's top
UNIX accounts. "Adalio Sanchez started a customer advisory
council for our UNIX clients when I first became the chief AIX
architect and invited me to participate as the technical conscience.
Since then, my work with customers has become very, very
extensive. Once I began to engage in this fashion, it was kind of a
hidden strength – and quite enjoyable."
Customers give developers insights they can't find anywhere else,
Satya noted. "For example, when Sarbanes-Oxley first went into
effect, our customers were the ones who told us of changes we
needed to make in our servers and virtualization capabilities in order
to meet these compliance requirements. Sitting in the development
lab, it's never possible to come up to speed on all these matters
quickly. You need to hear directly from clients."
As Power Systems CTO, Satya envisions the biggest threat to IBM's
UNIX dominance will be fighting off the commodity-style x86
systems now being offered by Dell and HP. "We must continue to
move to more of a stack value proposition that includes IBM's
software and services with every UNIX server we sell. The pending
Oracle/Sun merger will make the stack optimization offered by IBM
even more important to our success."
On the performance front, IBM will continue to extend its lead, the
new Fellow predicted. "When POWER7 launches next year, we
expect to increase performance by four or five times – with the same
energy consumption. This performance is very important to our
Smarter Planet initiative. You need that performance and scaling to
solve very large problems, both in the commercial space and highperformance computing space to tackle societal problems.
"Beyond performance, we need to build on our Power differentiation
story. We are calling this a "+1" story – every new Power generation
will have an easily recognizable major differentiation feature against
competition. There may be multiple other differentiating features as
well. We need to speed up our pace of innovation against the x86
world."
Satya remains driven by an all-consuming passion for his work. "It's
not a job, it's my life. I've worked hard at it, around the clock," said
the father of two daughters, one accounting major and one high
school senior who is interested in engineering. "I do stay very
involved with my kids' education – particularly their math skills."
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Hung Le
Tell Hung Le it can't be done – then sit back and watch him do it.
"When people tell me something is impossible, I take that as a
challenge," says the new IBM Fellow and one of the world's leading
microprocessor designers. "When I see other companies fail on
something, it doesn't mean the idea is bad. If I think it's a good idea,
I'll keep on researching it. If it makes sense, I'll make it work."
The chief architect behind IBM's game-changing POWER
microprocessor technology knows all about overcoming long odds.
Hung was only 16 years old in 1975 when the North Vietnamese
army overran Saigon. Hung and his family joined thousands of
refugees fleeing the country.
"My parents and five brothers and sisters made it out and eventually
we made our way to a refugee camp in on an army base in California
and then settled in New York State." Hung recalled. "We practically
lost everything, but we were fortunate to get out together."
After a couple of years in a community college, Hung won a
scholarship to Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, earning a degree
in electrical and computer engineering.
Hung began his IBM career in Poughkeepsie, working on the
mainframe processors for the System/3090. While working on the
H2 mainframe, Hung developed algorithms behind the first out-oforder processor at IBM, a key technical breakthrough.
Since 1991, Hung has worked in Austin and has been a key player in
IBM's enormous success with POWER processor technology – the
engine behind IBM's comeback and current dominance in the UNIX
marketplace.
In 2001, Hung cemented his reputation as the magician of the
microprocessor as a key architect of the POWER4. "The whole
industry was trying to crack the code for out-of-order architecture
which would allow hundred of instructions to be executed out of
order on the same chip. At that time, the industry was looking at 10
or 20 out-of-order instructions. We were able to do hundreds and
improve performance significantly, allowing for much faster
processing. At that time, we were number three in the UNIX market.
That started us on the road back to the top."
With the POWER5, Hung and his team introduced Simultaneous
Multithreading (SMT) technology to IBM, an advancement that
subsequently became a feature on all IBM Power systems and games
processors. Next came the POWER6 – the fastest microprocessor in
the world – which allows a customerto run a server at the same
performance levels of its predecessor at half the energy
consumption. The POWER7, which Hung and his team are
developing now, promises even further improvements when it makes
it to the market next year.
One of the keys to becoming a successful technical leader is resisting
the urge to do it yourself, according to Hung. "I learned this from a
technical leader in Poughkeepsie early in my career. Sometimes it's
hard to stand back and encourage people to do things their own
ways. But I've found if I can do that, my team will always come up
with things I never thought of. There's real value in giving technical
people the freedom to innovate – within the parameters you define."
Realizing the grand ambitions inherit in the Smarter Planet agenda
starts at the microprocessor level, asserts the former refugee who has
authored more than 70 patents, most in the intricate world of
processor design. "To build an infrastructure to support an
interconnected, instrumented and intelligent, you need systems that
can process massive amounts of data. From the semiconductor point
of view, we're hitting a technology barrier. We have to come up with
innovative ways of doing parallel systems while reducing our power
usage and burning up less resource. That's what we're trying to do
with our POWER technology – keep expanding the art of the
possible."
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Roger Schmidt
Being a member of a small class is nothing new to this ingenious
farmer's son.
Roger Schmidt is one of the elite eight in the 2009 Class of IBM
Fellows. The future engineer's graduating class at Hartsburg High
School – 19 students strong — was not much bigger.
From the grain fields and rural small town life of central Illinois,
Roger has risen more than four decades later to the top ranks among
IBM's 200,000-member global technical community.
Considered one of the world's foremost authorities on thermal design
of large scale computers and data centers, the master inventor has
been the driving force behind the cooling systems in IBM's
supercomputers, mainframes, parallel processors and client data
centers around the world.
Roger's specialty – cooling systems – has always been important to
IBM's mainframe architecture, but has never been a bigger business
priority than now. "My job has really evolved so now my primary
role is meeting with clients all over the world, sharing best practices
in energy efficiency for data centers."
Two frequent issues: "Typically, clients over-cool – too much airconditioning in the data centers. It can get pretty warm in a data
center without harming the equipment. The other recurring issue is
where the cables exit the back of machines, the opening in the raised
floor is typically completely open and wasting chilled air. The aisle
in the back of the machines should be hot. Chilled air mixing with
the hot air in back of machines is just wasting money. It's very
simple to plug up all the holes, but probably 75 percent of clients
don't do this."
This commonsense approach to solving complex problems comes
naturally to the Fellow who grew up working on a farm. "Being on a
farm, you are around mechanical equipment – tractors, wagons,
combines, hay bailers, cultivators. You are doing a lot of mechanical
work all the time. When I decided to go college, Dad convinced me
and it made sense to try mechanical engineering."
After graduating from Bradley University, Roger enlisted in the U.S.
Navy during the Vietnam War. "I spent five years in the Navy
working on the staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover. I attended nuclear
power school and worked on the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise
and the nuclear destroyer California power plants. It was a great
education."
Roger joined IBM in Poughkeepsie in 1977 after earning a doctorate
from the University of Minnesota in mechanical engineering
specializing in thermal sciences and fluid mechanics.
With more than 100 patents and innovations to his credit – from the
water cooled rear door heat exchanger to the liquid-based cooling
system for IBM's high-end Power systems – Roger finds his life's
work in a somewhat obscure field suddenly, well, cool. "The
company's agenda plays well into my background and skill set, and it
couldn't be more timely now with the planet being in trouble. We're
going to have a billion more people in 12 years - how will we
support their energy needs? There's enormous potential in using
sensors, monitoring and analyzing data to get smarter about how we
use our energy resources."
As Roger looks to the future with excitement, the married father of
one college-age son carries with him life lessons learned on his
family's farm.
"Farming is not easy. My parents worked hard, and my brother and I
worked hard with them. This was what expected of you. This was
our life. The whole community worked hard. It was a normal thing
for everybody."
Not surprisingly, Roger's secret to innovation boils down to hard
work. "To come up with an innovation, you have to get deeply
immersed in the problem. The rear-door cooling system started by
knowing every aspect, talking with clients, knowing their pain
points. Once you know every aspect of the problem, you will come
up with three or four solutions. Then you can optimize and find the
best one. Immerse yourself in the problem and the solution will
become obvious."
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Laura Haas
New IBM Fellow Laura Haas lists Starburst, Garlic and flourless
chocolate cake among three of her greatest achievements.
That eclectic mix doesn't reflect Laura's culinary range – although
she does know her way around a sauce pan. Starburst and Garlic
were code names for two pivotal projects in the 28-year career of
one of the company's leading computer scientists. The flourless
chocolate cake? That's the pride and joy of the dessert aficionado
who has been active in a Silicon Valley cooking club for nearly as
long as she has been at IBM. Find the recipe below.
The Harvard-educated daughter of two psychology professors
launched her IBM career at the San Jose Research Lab, the
forerunner to the Almaden Research Center. "I was planning on a
four-year gig while my husband (fellow IBMer, Peter Haas)
completed graduate studies at Stanford. One thing led to another and
I've been at Almaden for most of my career."
The Philadelphia native, who holds a doctorate in computer science,
distinguished herself early on for her research in relational database
management. "One of my first big projects was helping lead the
research on the Starburst extensible data system in the mid-1980s.
Technology from this project formed the basis for the DB2 UDB
query processor."
After a sabbatical year at the University of Wisconsin, Laura dove
into a new project known internally as Garlic, a database middleware
system. The technologies developed in Garlic formed the foundation
for WebSphere Federation Server and helped launch IBM's
information integration business.
"Working on Garlic gave me the chance to work very closely with
one of our pharmaceutical customers who needed to integrate
technology after a series of mergers and acquisitions. I was their de
facto services lead, an unusual role coming out of research. I was the
person they called when anything was needed. On good days, I was
their savior. On bad days, I was the person they needed to find the
solution."
That project helped IBM's life science emerging business
opportunity get off the ground. "Seeing the chain of business results
that followed our early Garlic work was incredibly gratifying. It
demonstrated the power of industrial research in a company like
IBM."
In the academic arena, Laura has authored a half-dozen patents and
dozens of technical articles. She also led an exploratory research
project on schema mapping, pioneering work that has advanced the
science of database design. She's currently on a four-month
sabbatical at ETH Zurich, the alma mater of Albert Einstein. "I'm
enjoying the chance to work with several professors and students on
research in distributed systems, integration and streaming. It's very
relevant to what we do at IBM, but from a different perspective.
They have new ideas on what some of the needs are for data
integration."
As IBM Fellow, the mother of two Harvard-educated sons will
become head of computer science for IBM Research, expanding her
current role at Almaden. "Part of my role is to be the butterfly –
cross-pollinating to make sure everybody knows what others are
doing so we get the right collaboration and the right focus. As a
technical leader, I've had the opportunity to mentor some of our
newer IBMers in India and China. Helping them to connect and be
effective, I've seen some real blossoming of talent – it's really
lovely."
Laura's Famous Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe
7 oz really good dark chocolate (semisweet or better, bittersweet)
1/2 cup strong black coffee
1 cup (8oz.) sweet butter
1 cup sugar
4 eggs slightly beaten, to mix
1. Preheat oven to 350F (177C) degrees
2. Generously butter and flour a leak-proof 8" springform pan. (or
wrap the bottom with a layer of foil. The cake may leak for the first 5
minutes of baking but this should not alter the texture or flavor).
3. In heavy-bottomed pan, melt the chocolate in the coffee over
medium heat. Over heat, add butter and sugar a little at a time,
stirring after each addition until well blended. (I use a wire whisk to
do this and seem to get a lighter cake) Continue cooking until very
hot but not boiling. Take from heat and slowly add egg mixture a
little at a time, stirring constantly until well blended.
4. Pour batter through a fine-mesh strainer into prepared
springform pan. (Do not skip this step!)
5. Bake 30 to 40 minutes, or until crust has formed on top and
mixture falls away from sides of pan. Cake will rise and then fall.
6. When cool, unmold but leave on pan bottom. Cover and
refrigerate. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes to an hour before
serving.
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Tim Vincent
"Building the bedrock of the Smarter Planet."
If you had to sum up Tim Vincent's eventful IBM career in a phrase,
that might be it.
"Database technology is underneath many of the aspects of the
Smarter Planet initiative," said the chief architect for DB2 and new
IBM Fellow. "Smarter Planet is about using information more
effectively to make decisions in real time. That requires technology
that can capture structured and unstructured data and use it for
everything from simple transactional workloads to complex
analytics."
The Toronto resident, who was born in England and grew up in
Ontario, has been at the center of IBM's database business since he
joined the company in 1991. Tim was a key member of the team that
launched the original DB2 product in 1993. "We were working in the
software lab in Toronto and behaving much like a start-up company.
The team was very strong technically, but a majority of the team had
little to no background in database. We were building a business
effectively out of nothing, which was very demanding."
From a standing start, IBM's DB2 business grew quickly through the
late 1990s, taking a bite out of Oracle's then-dominant market share,
Tim recalled. "We had some initial success with version one. On
version two, we worked with IBM Research to add some new
technology. By 2000, we had built a significant revenue stream."
A college soccer player at the University of Waterloo, Tim majored
in physics but quickly realized "making a living in physics is not an
easy thing to do." After several years working for a small company
that specialized in computer integrated manufacturing systems for
semiconductor fabrication. Tim joined in on the ground floor of
IBM's fledgling database business.
Nearly two decades later, Tim has worked on 10 releases of DB2 and
remains infinitely fascinated by the work. "Database provides every
technical challenge you can imagine – algorithmic, user interface,
concurrency, scalability. Database technology is an unfinished path,
and I like to build on things and see them through to fruition," said
the avid skier and cyclist.
Later this month, IBM will launch DB2 9.7. One key new feature:
making it easier for independent software vendors and clients to
move applications developed for other databases to the IBM
platform. "Importantly, the skills associated with those applications
can also be migrated. Customers around the world are facing the
problem of lack of database skills. DB2 9.7 will simplify
administrative tasks, freeing up database managers' time to do
higher-value tasks for their business."
Over the past few years, Tim has spent time in India and China,
working with the development and sales teams and clients, including
the IBM team working with local government agencies on health
care reform. "The Chinese central government is pushing to bring
uniform health care out to the remote regions, using technology. The
challenge is how do you get information to barefoot doctors working
in remote villages to help them understand different treatments and
link them back to what's available at hospitals in the cities. At the
core of that is giving these remote doctors access to data —
electronic health records, information around treatments, around
drugs. Using technology in ways like this to help humanity is the
heart and soul of the Smarter Planet vision."
The son of a TV repairman, Tim found the appointment to IBM
Fellow "incredibly humbling."
"I view this as recognition for the entire team behind DB2. For me,
this new role as Fellow means not only championing our product,
but empowering our team across the globe and helping them grow
and develop. I also want to continue to work with customers, with
our sellers, with ISVs. Staying connected with the external
environment involved with your product is so important to a
technologist."
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Kevin Winterfield on 2 Jun 2009 at 10:29 AM EDT
Congrats!
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BALASUBRAMANIAN SIVASUBRAMANIAN on 3 Jun 2009 at 14:06 PM
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Congrats to all !! Its very impressive
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Catherine M. Nunez on 2 Jun 2009 at 10:46 AM EDT
Congratulations Mike! Your writeup summarizes your teaming and mentoring
strengths so well. I am looking forward to you sharing what it's like to be an IBM
Fellow with the AZTVC. Let us know when you'll be on site so we can properly
celebrate :-)
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NOEL E. BURKE on 2 Jun 2009 at 10:52 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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Quang M. Tran on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:06 AM EDT
Hung Le, My old roommate in Poughkeepsie, congratulations !
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PHANI M. CHATURVEDULA on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:12 AM EDT
It is really inspirational to read the success stories of people above and how they
are bringing change in societ through their achievements in technology.
Congratulations al!!
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Lambert A. Rugani on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:19 AM EDT
Satya, congratulations. Thanks for your help on Goldman Sachs last year. Your
dedication to our client's success was evident as you helped navigate through a
very difficult situation.
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Robert G. LaBrie on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:22 AM EDT
Well done Mike.
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Robert J. Schloss on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:26 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of our new Fellows. Your technical vision, your ability to
mobilize (and develop) colleagues, your clear communication of the innovations
you created to the external world... make the economy more efficient, make the
work lives and personal lives of people more interesting and less strenuous, and
add lustre to the desirable statement by hundreds of thousands of us that "I work
at IBM". Kudos also to you for sharing with us some of your personal
background, and philosophy. It is inspiring!
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Julian Ariel Cerruti on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:31 AM EDT
My special congratulations to Laura. I can personally assert that she is not only a
technical leader and visionary, but also an excellent person, great motivator and
builder of a great work environment among top talented people. It's very pleasing
to see our company reward honest, hard, technical and leadership work. This is
really great, exciting news.
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Jerry L. Callen on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:26 PM EDT
Congratulations all, but I'm particularly happy to see Laura become a Fellow. As
Julian and others have said, Laura is an inspirational leader and wonderful
person. She has repeatedly helped me make connections within IBM. Research is
in good hands!
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Kerrie Holley on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:33 AM EDT
Congratulations to all the new IBM Fellows. Impressive people and stories.
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Machane Daniel on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:39 AM EDT
Many many Congratulations to IBM's New Fellows !!! Your contribution in
some way or the other to this planet is highly appreciated and valued.Its
inspirational and a great deal of learning for us.Keep Shining :-)
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Thalia L. Hooker on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:42 AM EDT
Congrats to all! Great individual stories that are very inspiring. I will have to try
the flourless chocolate cake recipe.
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OLANIKE OGUNBODEDE on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:52 AM EDT
Congratulations Chieko! Very inspiring. Congratulations to All!
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Mary A. Roth on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:54 AM EDT
Congratulations, Laura! This is truly a well deserved honor.
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BASAVARAJ HIREMATH on 2 Jun 2009 at 11:59 AM EDT
Satya Sharmaji, I am moved by your dedication to job while you are involved
with your kids. You are proof that hard work eventually pays. Congratulations
for the well deserved award, which serves as a great motivation for others.
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Marianne Defazio on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:02 PM EDT
You make us all so proud!
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Jamshid A. Vayghan on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:06 PM EDT
Congratulationa to all! It is an honor to be a member of IBM's technical
community led by you and other Fellows!
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Patrice Knight on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:10 PM EDT
My deepest congratulations to all of our new IBM Fellows. The talent,
innovation, and leadership you have demonstrated to reach this technical
recognition is commendable. Thank you for the difference you have made and
will continued to make. Pat
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Sugandha Srikanteswaran on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:25 PM EDT
Hearty Congratulations!! Laura. You are such an inspiration :) I am hoping to
chat with you soon.
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Tania Shirley Quispe Zambrana on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:25 PM EDT
Congratulations to all! :)
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Kavi Nithyanandam on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:29 PM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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Rodolfo Casillas Alarcon on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:35 PM EDT
Congratulations !!! A great achievement.
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Ann E. Borrett on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:41 PM EDT
The people at IBM do make the difference! Each of your stories is moving and an
inspiration! My special thanks to Roger Schmidt, for his support to my clients
and special thanks for all he does! You all ROCK!
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David H. Coutts on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:42 PM EDT
Congratulations to all of you!
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GAYATRI BAYYAREDDY on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:43 PM EDT
Congratulation Laura. Very inspiring stories and congratulations to all of you!!!
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Laura A. Ciccarelli on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:45 PM EDT
Dr. Sepulveda, you make me proud to be an IBMer...Congrats to all of you!
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Surya K. Ghatty on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:52 PM EDT
Congratulations to Mike and all of the new IBM Fellows !! It's very inspiring to
read your success stories here!
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KSHITIJ SINGH on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:54 PM EDT
Congrats to All !!!
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Ethan McCarty on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:55 PM EDT
What a bunch of top notch IBMers...congrats! You make us all proud!
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EMILY E. NICOTERA on 2 Jun 2009 at 12:58 PM EDT
Congratulations to all! What an inspiration to those of us starting out in our
careers! =)
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James Reed on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:06 PM EDT
Congratulations Laura, very richly deserved
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Melanie A. Tindley on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:06 PM EDT
Congratulations to all the new IBM Fellows. Roger, I appreciate your Midwestern roots (my grandparents farmed that region also); your accomplishments;
and your efforts to develop other young technologists that I witnessed while
based in Poughkeepsie supporting you in a staff role. Best wishes in your ongoing endeavors.
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Janis A. Morariu on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:08 PM EDT
Top notch - congratulations to all the new 8 IBM Fellows!
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POORNIMA SEETHARAMAIAH on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:10 PM EDT
You are an inspiration to all...Congratulations!
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Ellen H. Carrie on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:16 PM EDT
Congratulations to all. And a special thanks to Chieko. As a visually impaired
IBMer, she is an inspiration. YOU GO GIRL!!!!
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Kent Kendall on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:18 PM EDT
Many others have stated it better than I can, but congratulations to each of you on
achieving this significant milestone. Some very inspirational stories here, and all
of you make us proud to be IBMers. "Innovation that matters - for our company
and for the world." THANK YOU
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BILL D. LE on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:21 PM EDT
Congratulations anh Hung Le!
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RAGHAVENDRA JAYARAM on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:26 PM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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RAGHAVENDRA JAYARAM on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:26 PM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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RAGHAVENDRA JAYARAM on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:27 PM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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Euzelia Hunter on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:41 PM EDT
Dr. Sepulveda, congrats!!!!!!!!!!! You are a great role model
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Robert M. Pistey on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:50 PM EDT
OUTSTANDING - congratulations to all, especially to my friend Roger!
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Bernard V. Schwartz on 2 Jun 2009 at 13:53 PM EDT
Mike and Roger, I've had the honor to work with both of you over the years. I am
very pleased to see that IBM bestowed the well deserved honor of IBM Fellow
on each of you. Besides your clear technical talent, I have always been impressed
with your willingness to help. Because of both of you, I have been able to move
the IBM Agenda forward at GM. Yes, Mike, GM is still an avid TSM customer.
And Roger, because of your Thermal work, GM built a Water based data center
that is 100% filled with IBM HPC systems. There aren't many data centers that
can claim to be 100% IBM. Again, Congratulations on this prestigious honor. I'm
proud to know you!!
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Avneesh Gupta on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:15 PM EDT
Congratulations Satya Sharma!!
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Denise Genty on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:19 PM EDT
Way to go, Satya!
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Timothy R. Malkemus on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:23 PM EDT
Congrats everyone, and esp Laura and Tim! Super!!
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MARIANNE LATTIN on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:24 PM EDT
Congratulations on this most wonderful honor and achievement!!!
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Tracy A. Williams on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:32 PM EDT
Congrats to all! ... and a special shout out to Roger!
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Refugio Martin Ceron Hernandez on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:33 PM EDT
Congratulations to all of you on achieving this very significant milestone. All
stories behind the scene are very inspirational, and all of you make us proud to be
IBMers. I'm sure all of you are living our values at all every single day,
"Innovation that matters - for our company and for the world", "Trust and
personal responsibility in all relationships", "Dedication to every client's
success", Thank you very much for all your advice and guidance! Un abrazo!
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Mahesh Garg on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:39 PM EDT
Congratulations Tim! A well-deserved recognition. Thanks for all the guidance
you provided me at the Toronto Lab.
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George Welleck on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:41 PM EDT
Satya - congratulations! It's always a pleasure working with you!
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Nagesh B. Potluri on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:47 PM EDT
Congratulations to all, Special Congratulations to Satya Sharma, it is amazing
how AIX moved from No 3 to No 1 position in Unix market.
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Surya K. Tripathi on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:48 PM EDT
Congratulations to all new Fellows. It is so inspirational to read about you all.
Looking forward to the podcast.
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Beverly B. Tomb on 2 Jun 2009 at 14:53 PM EDT
Wow! What an impressive group! And I want to try that Flourless Chocolate
Cake recipe!! Thanks Laura!
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Marion J. Tessar on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:03 PM EDT
Congrats to all...especially, our very special Dr. Sepulveda! I'll have to remember
to share with Silvio how special you are...as if we didn't already know that!
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Gregory Rodgers on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:03 PM EDT
Congratulations Roger! You helped me analyze the airflow for the MareNostrum
supercomputer built in a old Spanish chapel. Your expertise assured the customer
(Barcelona Supercomputer Center) that the room design would work not just for
the first MareNostrum but for many upgrades to come. Thank you.
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Marion J. Tessar on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:04 PM EDT
Congrats to all...especially, our very special Dr. Sepulveda! I'll have to remember
to share with Silvio how special you are...as if we didn't already know that!
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Trung V. Nguyen on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:13 PM EDT
Congratulations to Hung Le, one of the lead engineers for S/390 development in
Poughkeepsie, NY, during the late 1980's and early 1990's, when I joined IBM
Poughkeepsie as a junior engineer in S/390 processor development team.
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Javier Eduardo Soto Castillo on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:16 PM EDT
Felicitaciones a todos por su esfuerzo invertido en el trabajo.
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Mohit Sisodia on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:34 PM EDT
Congrats...!!
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Sampada G. Basarkar on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:50 PM EDT
Congratulations to all the new IBM Fellows. Your achievements and your life
stories are inspiration to all.
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Veronika Szasz on 2 Jun 2009 at 15:58 PM EDT
Congratulations to all of you. You change the World. I make a deep bow to you.
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VINAY K. MENA on 2 Jun 2009 at 16:03 PM EDT
Hearty Congratulations to all of you.
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Subramanian G. Krishnamurthy on 2 Jun 2009 at 16:03 PM EDT
Congratulations to all on this great achievement.
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Jenny M. Chow on 2 Jun 2009 at 16:15 PM EDT
Congratulations to all. But since I know Laura personally, I felt especially happy
for her! I've also heard Chieko on a call before but didn't know her story. What
an inspiration! I enjoyed reading about all.
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Muthuraman Venkatachalam on 2 Jun 2009 at 16:26 PM EDT
Unique, diverse and special IBMer's, Congratulations and Hats off to you , you
are really inspirational.
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Rao Panuganti on 2 Jun 2009 at 16:32 PM EDT
Congratulations !!! Great achievement !!!
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Arvind Kumar on 2 Jun 2009 at 17:02 PM EDT
Congratulations to all it's really inspiring !!!
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Alan J. Caldera on 2 Jun 2009 at 17:21 PM EDT
Congratulations Tim! Your hard work and vision have truly paid off!
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Rodrigo Januario da Silva on 2 Jun 2009 at 17:23 PM EDT
Congratulations all. From my side I would like to say I'm very happy to Chieko
Asakawa as an IBM Fellow. I am also a PWD and I'm working to improve web
accessibility in my team too. Best regards,
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DAN BARHAM on 2 Jun 2009 at 17:28 PM EDT
Congratulations Tim!!! A distinction that is well deserved!!
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Kathryn M. Miller on 2 Jun 2009 at 17:29 PM EDT
My sincere congratulations and thanks to each of you. You demonstrate what
IBM should stand for in terms of technology leadership, personal development
and commitment to our work. You are an outstanding group of individuals who
have made the rest of us very proud, indeed. What great role models you are to
those who aspire to follow your lead.
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Yu Guan on 2 Jun 2009 at 17:53 PM EDT
My sincere congratulations to every new Fellows here, must admit though I
especially admire Ms. Asakawa.
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Anoop Kumar1 on 2 Jun 2009 at 18:17 PM EDT
Congratulations to eight new fellows. These success stories will be inspiring all
the employees in IBM , including me.
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Beverly Dewitt on 2 Jun 2009 at 18:20 PM EDT
Chieko, I had the pleasure of meeting you in the research lab at the Lotusphere
conference in January. I was very impressed with your work and wanted to wish
you congratulations for reaching IBM Fellow. Let's hope this site scores well
with your accessibility tester :-)
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Walter D. Alvey on 2 Jun 2009 at 18:40 PM EDT
Congratulations Laura. This is a well-deserved honor. And thanks for your help
and support during the years I worked for you on Federation Server.
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Melissa T. Sader on 2 Jun 2009 at 19:02 PM EDT
I had the great privilege of meeting the Fellows today when Tim Ensign and I
created the podcast series to accompany this article. The insights and stories they
share in the podcasts are truly inspiring. Congratulations (again) and thanks to the
new Fellows for participating in the podcasts.
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NORISHIGE MORIMOTO on 2 Jun 2009 at 19:16 PM EDT
Congratulations to all!! You guys are amazing and we all proud of you.
Especially to Chieko and Laura. Chieko being the first IBM Fellow in 10 years in
Japan.
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Ramesh V. Chitor on 2 Jun 2009 at 19:57 PM EDT
Congratulations to all the new IBM Fellows. Satya! truly amazing acheivement.
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Sachin Kariadan on 2 Jun 2009 at 20:01 PM EDT
Congratulations! And very inspiring
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Jing Xu on 2 Jun 2009 at 21:40 PM EDT
Congratulations, Tim!
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Zhe Yan on 2 Jun 2009 at 21:59 PM EDT
Admire Chieko Asakawa for her braveness and willpower, congratulations to
her!
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SAI JANDHYALA on 2 Jun 2009 at 22:47 PM EDT
Congrats!
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Jack DiLullo on 2 Jun 2009 at 22:50 PM EDT
Congratulations Hung on this great achievement in your career !!
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S. Mann on 2 Jun 2009 at 23:04 PM EDT
Congratulations! You guys are what keep IBM competitive and one of the most
innovative companies in the industry. Well Done!
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HRISHIKESH V. DESHPANDE on 2 Jun 2009 at 23:25 PM EDT
Congratulations All
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Normand Chatelier on 2 Jun 2009 at 23:31 PM EDT
Congratulations! Really, real people contributing incredible achievements. I can't
wait to see what's next!
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Ram K. Kalpat on 2 Jun 2009 at 23:51 PM EDT
Congrats to all the new fellows!! What a great Honor!! All of you are a great
inspiration to the rest of us. So proud to belong to a company that recognizes
hard work and dedication.
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JAGANNATH PANDA on 3 Jun 2009 at 00:56 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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SUBBAREDDY BOGATHI on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:00 AM EDT
Hearty Congratulations to all...
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VIKAS BHARDWAJ on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:07 AM EDT
Congratulations to all
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Eduardo C. Oliveira on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:19 AM EDT
Thanks for sharing your stories and experiences. I feel very inspired by all of you
and I really wish you all the best in this new appointment. Congratulations !!!
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Sachin J. Joshi on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:28 AM EDT
Many congratulations to all! It is inspirational to read the stories, pushing you to
look beyond your job and make a diference!
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Vibhaw P. Rajan on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:29 AM EDT
It is so inspirational to read about you all.Congratulations to all of you on
achieving this significant milestone.
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Katsushi Yamashita on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:32 AM EDT
Congrats! You make us all proud! Asakawa-san! Omedeto--
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Fan Yue Gong on 3 Jun 2009 at 01:37 AM EDT
Congratulations to all. Thanks for your contribution to this planet.And a special
thanks to Chieko and Hung Le. very inspring and impressive.
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Suresh Kumar Vijeya Kumar on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:00 AM EDT
Congratultation to all of you. A BIG thank you and a special congratulations to
Chieko Asakawa for your contributions. All your hardwork finally paid off.
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Akira Sakakibara on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:15 AM EDT
Congratulations to all! Asakawa-san, I treat you to beer!
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VIKRAM K. PONNOJU on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:24 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!! articles posted are truly inspirational.. Thank you!
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Juan Manuel Rebes Molina on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:25 AM EDT
Unbelievable people. Make me really proud of the three words I have on my
badge. Congratulations!
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KARTHEEK K. KESARLA on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:33 AM EDT
Congratulations to all. You are all make us to feel very proud! It is inspirational
to us!!
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Joy Mustafi on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:43 AM EDT
Congratulations!!! Eight Fellows show the Eight Bars of IBM Logo :-)
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Roopa Kariyappa on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:48 AM EDT
Congratulations to each one of you! Each story is really inspiring. I would like to
congratulate Chieko Asakawa especially.. Good job!
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Emmanuel Bigombe on 3 Jun 2009 at 02:49 AM EDT
Congartulations ! You're an inspiration to us all.
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Balaji Subramanian on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:02 AM EDT
This will really impress all IBMers and act as a stimuli to achieve more...
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ANUPAM KAKATI on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:12 AM EDT
This is great achievement and you really deserve it. Congratulations !!
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Andreas Schmidt on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:16 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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Ilan Menachem on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:23 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of you. Your stories are inspiring. Opportunities and
support from IBM for each individual to get this kind of personal achievement, is
what make IBM special.
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Zhi Guo Dong on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:23 AM EDT
Roger, my advisor on power and cooling, congratulations~! We are working on a
demo center to show Rear Door Heat Exchanger.
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Nicole Katzenschlager on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:30 AM EDT
Congratulation to all of you and thank you for all the inventions you have done
for this company and our customers. My very, very special thanks and admiration
to Chieko - great what you have done out of your situation - you are a role model
for people who are afraid taking small challenges compared with what you have
achieved. OUTSTANDING and IMPRESSIVE!!!!! You gave so much back to
others and made their world more fastinating and gave them a kind of sunrise.
Cheers Nicole
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Murtaza Moinuddin on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:38 AM EDT
Congrats to all esp. Ms Asakawa with her inspirational work... It is difficult to
achieve something in real which seems true in Dreams only :)
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Jean-Louis Uruty on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:50 AM EDT
Congratulation Mike... and thanks for all the good work you provide for Nestlé!
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Yun Gen Fu on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:51 AM EDT
Congratulations to you all! Thank you for your excellent contributions! Hope to
have a chance to work with you one day.
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SRINIVAS ANUMULA on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:53 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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Shine Williams on 3 Jun 2009 at 03:59 AM EDT
Congratulations to All!
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Jung Hun Kim on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:12 AM EDT
congratulations to all... !!
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Rahul K. Sen on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:28 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of u !!
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RAJASHREE RAO on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:30 AM EDT
Congratulations to all the new IBM Fellows. Your achievements and your life
stories are very inspiring and motivating for people like me who aspires to grow
to become a leader in IBM
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SRIDEVI KARUMURI on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:30 AM EDT
Congratulations to all new Fellows. It is so inspirational to read about you all.
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Thottikalai P. Selvaraj on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:32 AM EDT
Congratulations to all. These are very inspiring stories and I am proud to be an
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Bhagwat V. Balshetwar on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:37 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of you!
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Sunil Shenoy on 3 Jun 2009 at 04:59 AM EDT
Congratulations to all !!
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SATYANARAYAN B. REDDY on 3 Jun 2009 at 05:04 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of you. This is really a great achievement
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Yukiko Kimura on 3 Jun 2009 at 05:16 AM EDT
Congratulations to all! All of you must be the dream-goal to our younger IBMer!
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Tomohiro Shioya on 3 Jun 2009 at 05:23 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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J. Herd on 3 Jun 2009 at 05:44 AM EDT
Congratulations to all on these appointments. Roger well deserved and thanks for
all your help on the IBM Academy study we worked on a while ago.
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Rajesh S. Nair on 3 Jun 2009 at 05:47 AM EDT
Congrats to all..
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Alex T. George on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:13 AM EDT
Congratulations, All !!!
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Soumya Samuel on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:31 AM EDT
Superb...:) They are really inspiring
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SWATHI GUGULOTH on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:34 AM EDT
Congratulations to all !!
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RAHUL CHOUDHARY on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:37 AM EDT
Congratulations to all . :) :) :)
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NIKHIL CHOUDHARY on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:43 AM EDT
Congratulations to IBM's New Fellows !!! You guys are true inspiration to all
IBM'rs.
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RAJESH N. RAJU on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:44 AM EDT
Congrats , Its very Inspiring - Proud to be an IBMer
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Ashok S. Kumar on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:51 AM EDT
inspirational stuff, congrats to all of you and am sure you would work towards
transforming people's live and in doing so, transfom IBM too!!
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Sagar R. Kondekar on 3 Jun 2009 at 06:55 AM EDT
Congratulations all!! Your success stories and dediaction are really inspiring.
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SAMARJIT S. KANWAR on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:07 AM EDT
Congratulations to all !!
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RAHUL TRIPATHI on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:11 AM EDT
congrats....you guys make us proud...
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Thiagarajan Sundaravadanam on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:37 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!! Very inspiring stories for those of us starting out our
careers.. Great motivation to all of us :))
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Vamsidhar R. Nimma on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:51 AM EDT
Congrats
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Alok Kumar Jha on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:55 AM EDT
Congratulation to all the new IBM Fellows...
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GOPAL JAISWAL on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:55 AM EDT
Very Inspirational IBMers .. Great Motivation for all of us.
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Satish K. Dubey on 3 Jun 2009 at 07:55 AM EDT
Chieko Asakawa is a real hero. Apart from her technical capabilities, she has also
proven that it just requires will power to win over most of the adversities in life.
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Samir De Andrade Yaki on 3 Jun 2009 at 08:16 AM EDT
Congratulations to all...You deserved ! I am motivated with all stories of success.
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Phuoc T. Nguyen on 3 Jun 2009 at 08:20 AM EDT
Congratulations chu Hung Le!
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Srinivas Manem on 3 Jun 2009 at 08:28 AM EDT
Congratulations all!! Specially to Chieko Asakawa; your story is so inspiring
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PRASHANT MAHESHKUMAR on 3 Jun 2009 at 08:43 AM EDT
Congrats All :)
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AW Horwitz on 3 Jun 2009 at 08:47 AM EDT
Congratulations on jobs well done!
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Maria Ferris on 3 Jun 2009 at 08:50 AM EDT
Congratulations to all. What a diverse set of accomplished IBMers !
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Satsuo Kiyono on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:04 AM EDT
Asakawa-san congratulations !!! You make us all very very proud. I must talk to
my kids that there is a super lady in the same building. Omedeto gozaimasu !
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SILVIA-EMILIA MIHAILESCU on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:08 AM EDT
wow :-) congrats :-)
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Ellen A. Gullo on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:27 AM EDT
Excellent life stories by inspirational leaders. Thank you for paving the way.
Congratulations!
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Barry Graham on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:28 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of you, what a great achievement.
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JAMUNA RANI on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:35 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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Shashi Kanth R. Kandula on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:48 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!
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RACHNA SHARMA on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:58 AM EDT
Congratulations Dad! We are all very proud of you. I enjoyed reading your
article!
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Brian P. Rawson on 3 Jun 2009 at 09:58 AM EDT
Congratulations to this extraordinary group of individuals. My special
congratulation to Roger Schmidt, a collague that I have had the pleasure to work
with and the honor to call my friend.
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M. GALVE DE CRUZ on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:02 AM EDT
Congratulations to all our new Fellows. You are an inspiration and a model for
all the IBMers!!! My special congratulations for Martin Sepulveda, as I have had
the privilege to see him in action, managing significant projects of transformation
and innovation, and I just can tell you that his leadership, passion, knowledge and
deep human sensitivity have made a difference in anything that he has managed.
Martin, enjoy a lot this well deserved distintion and recognition. You are a pride
for IBM and particularly for us in the HR community. Thanks for being as you
are!!
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Sheila A. Moran on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:23 AM EDT
Congratulations to all for an accomplishment that so few are honored with. I had
the good fortune to work closely with Laura in the early days of LifeSciences and
fondly remember our time together. Laura has the qualities that make her as
valuable in front of our customers as she is back in the lab. She is a world class
saleswoman as well as a world class researcher which is such a unique and
powerful combination. She accomplishes both with such grace and humility that
she leaves a lasting impression of the potential and value of IBM every time she
engages. Congratulations Laura on this recognition. You are one of the people I
think of when I feel that IBM can accomplish anything.
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Heidi N. Kaufman on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:30 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of the new Fellows, and especially to Martin. Your
knowledge and commitment to globalization, innovation and the IBM business
has continually set an example for all of those that work with you and for you.
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Susan K. Schreitmueller on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:54 AM EDT
Congratulations Satya!
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Betty M. Johnson on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:55 AM EDT
Congratulations Dr. Sepulveda...and to all other new Fellows as well.
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Susan K. Schreitmueller on 3 Jun 2009 at 10:56 AM EDT
Congratulation to all....
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Virginia Rometty on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:01 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of you. It is very fascinating to read each of your individual
stories. I want you to know that your contributions to IBM are very much
appreciated. Just think about how many people you have each impacted through
your efforts. I want to also personally thank you for the impact you have made on
our industry and our client's business success. Be proud of this achievement and
all that you have accomplished. You are a role model to many.
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Rocky Xue on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:07 AM EDT
Congratulations to all new fellows!
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Sethumadhavan Ranganathan on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:14 AM EDT
My hearty congratulations to all New IBM Fellow; And my special wishes to
Chieko Asakawa
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SANUJ DEY on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:25 AM EDT
Congratulations ! Its an inspiration for the new comers like me.
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Jose Altuve on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:27 AM EDT
Proud of have an Austin colleague on the new IBM Fellows - Satya Sharmamade me to remember Kingston, Poughkeepsie sites. Congratulations to all IBM
Fellows.
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Andrew M. Raibeck on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:35 AM EDT
Mike, congratulations on your well-earned achievement.
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Luciano Lacerda Passianotto on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:42 AM EDT
Congratulations for making the difference!!
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Loretta T. Larson on 3 Jun 2009 at 11:53 AM EDT
Hey Kaz..... what a great achievement - CONGRATS! We are all very proud of
you here in our Tivoli family...
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Padmavathi Devi Chukka on 3 Jun 2009 at 12:35 PM EDT
Congratulations to you all. I'd like to call out Chieko. Chieko: It was a motivating
story that I read since long time. Thank you for showing your persevarance and
leadership. Your story shows, nothing can stop anybody if one has drive.
Congratulations and Thank you.
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RAMA SINGH on 3 Jun 2009 at 13:00 PM EDT
Heartiest Congratulations to all the new Fellow's. You all are role model.
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Pandian Athirajan on 3 Jun 2009 at 13:41 PM EDT
Congratulations to all new IBM Fellows!! Dr. Chieko's achievements are
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Lei Wang on 3 Jun 2009 at 13:45 PM EDT
COngratulations to all, past and present!
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Mirvan Wondracek on 3 Jun 2009 at 13:57 PM EDT
Congratulations to each IBM Fellow, but most of all I want to congratulate
Roger, hard work that's what it takes to be successful, thanks for your dedication
and vision to sustain IBM as a world leader with your creativity and knowledge.
Each one of us has received many gifts, it's up to us to determine what we are
going to do with these gifts, tank you each one of you for sharing these gifts with
all of us. Again, congratulations, well deserved!!!
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Hideki Shima on 3 Jun 2009 at 14:10 PM EDT
Congratulations to you all, especially, Asakawa-san!
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David D. Weck on 3 Jun 2009 at 14:16 PM EDT
Congrats! What makes working at IBM special for me is not only do we have
people who have achieved the level of DE but that they are accessible to their
coworkers across the globe. Impressive accomplishments and well deserved
appointments to DE.
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Bilal Jaffery on 3 Jun 2009 at 14:44 PM EDT
Very inspirational!!
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Mercedes Timermans De Palma on 3 Jun 2009 at 15:12 PM EDT
Congratulations all of you. You make IBM difference. We are very proud to
belong to the same company of all of you. A very special mention to Chieko that
I met one month ago in Madrid.
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Cate L. Richards on 3 Jun 2009 at 16:53 PM EDT
Congratulations to all of the fantastic Fellows!
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Thota Naraiya on 3 Jun 2009 at 17:14 PM EDT
Many many Congratulations to IBM's New Fellows !!!
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Terry D. Escamilla on 3 Jun 2009 at 21:01 PM EDT
Congratulations to all! Thank you for your contributions, leadership, and
inspiration. Amazing stories.
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Robert J. Gauthier Jr on 3 Jun 2009 at 21:26 PM EDT
Congratulations to all, very impressive achievement
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Deepak Kaul on 3 Jun 2009 at 21:52 PM EDT
Many congratulations to all! great company with great people.
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John F. Ryan on 3 Jun 2009 at 21:53 PM EDT
Congrats Satya!
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JAMILA A. PETITE on 3 Jun 2009 at 22:27 PM EDT
It's wonderful to see such a well rounded and diverse representation of new
technical leaders being honored for their contributions to IBM and the world.
Congratulations and best wishes!
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Alain G. Paci on 3 Jun 2009 at 22:30 PM EDT
Congratulation to all. This is an outstanding achievement. You are an example
for all of us who work in the technology domain. I am very proud to work for a
company that can still produce such fine individuals.
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Jan Mandrup on 3 Jun 2009 at 22:58 PM EDT
Whao... all there is to say is whao. You are an inspiration for us all.
Congratulations to all.
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JoAnn H. Hill on 3 Jun 2009 at 23:40 PM EDT
Congratulations to all! Very inspirational stories!
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Sambath Na Parthasarathy on 3 Jun 2009 at 23:58 PM EDT
Congratulations to all. And a special one to Chieko. Inspiring. Very inspiring.
Congratulations Roger. We feel the power of your inventions.
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Kunal Langer on Today at 00:33 AM EDT
Congratulations to all!! and thanks for your contributions to the company and to
the world
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Ramasubbu Kasirajah on Today at 01:59 AM EDT
Congratulations to all and your inspirational stories will motivate others
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Wilhelm Michel on Today at 02:00 AM EDT
Great stories! Congratulations to all of you as you are examples for others and
make one proud being part of the same company :-)
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Tannistha Mukherjee on Today at 02:07 AM EDT
Awed by the inspirational read of all.. Many Congratulations !!!
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I. Harting on Today at 03:03 AM EDT
Congratulations to all with this impressive appointment, truly inspired by your
personal stories:)
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Rafal Misztal on Today at 03:12 AM EDT
Impressive people and stories; congratulations.
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ANNIE ANCHAN on Today at 03:16 AM EDT
Congratulations to all...Very Inspiring....
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Azmi Ahmad on Today at 03:16 AM EDT
Congratulations to all of you !!
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Rajib Bhattacharjee2 on Today at 03:21 AM EDT
Congratulations to all new fellows..
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NISHAT DHILLON on Today at 03:26 AM EDT
Kudos to all the new IBM Fellows. You people are role model for all the budding
talent in IBM. Special congrats to “Chieko Asakawa”, she set the right example
for all by her courage and dedication towards her vision. This article is one of the
most inspiring I have ever read. Once again congrats on the achievement and
God bless.
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Bettina Schelm-Scherp on Today at 03:40 AM EDT
Congratulations to all the new IBM fellows but especially to Chieko who is
helping to make World Wide Web accessible to the visually impaired and others
with special needs like my girl-friend who lost one eyesight at the age of 47 last
year - till now one - and needs to go on working in her own graphic & deisgn
company. Thank you Chieko!
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Ashok Dhayalaraj on Today at 05:03 AM EDT
Congraulations to all. It is really impressive to see the achievements of these hard
working innovative people and acheiving their goals under such tough
conditions.
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Takis Ioannides on Today at 05:49 AM EDT
Congratulations to all Fellows for their great achievements and contribution to
out Big Blue Family future progress. They all are "paradigms" for all of us.
Especially for Chieko Asakawa, she is not a woman with "disabilities" but a
woman with "SPECIAL UNIQUE ABILITIES". The power of her soul is
unique! The power of her will to work, create, contribute as well. I also promise
to make/taste the famous Laura's cake. I devote the following to all Fellows :
"Instead of complaining for the darkness, lets ignite our own candle".
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SANTOSH K. PARIDA on Today at 06:38 AM EDT
Many Many Congratulations to all of you...
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Anna B. Thomas on Today at 07:25 AM EDT
Congratulations !!!!!!!! to all
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Roger Keillor on Today at 08:20 AM EDT
Congratulations to all
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Lillian J. Davis on Today at 08:27 AM EDT
Congratulations to all! Such great stories about overcoming obstacles--ranging
from IBM's M & L policy to University policies of the 60s. Determination,
tenacity, and chocolate cake!
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Karen Quinn on Today at 08:43 AM EDT
Congrats. Well done. To one and all.
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Patricia A. Ford on Today at 08:48 AM EDT
Bravo to all! We are very proud of you! You do inspire and compel us to be the
best we can be. Congratulations!
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G. G. Fletcher on Today at 08:50 AM EDT
Congratulations to all the new Fellows. Special congratulations to Chieko, an
inspiration!
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