| Irving
Wladawsky-Berger
Visiting
Lecturer of Engineering Systems
Dr.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM on May 31, 2007
after 37 years with the company. As Chairman Emeritus, IBM
Academy of Technology, he continues to participate in a
number of IBM’s technical strategy and innovation
initiatives. He is also Visiting Professor of Engineering
Systems at MIT, where he is involved in multi-disciplinary
research and teaching activities focused on how information
technologies are helping transform business organizations
and the institutions of society.
At
IBM he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies
and marketplace developments critical to the future of the
IT industry, and organizing appropriate activities in and
outside IBM in order to capitalize on them. He was also
responsible for IBM’s university relations office
and for the IBM Academy of Technology where he served as
Chairman of the Board of Governors. In 1996, he led the
effort to formulate IBM’s Internet strategy and to
develop and bring to market leading-edge Internet technologies
that could be integrated into IBM’s mainstream business.
He subsequently led a number of companywide initiatives
like Linux, Grid Computing and the On Demand Business initiative.
He
began his IBM career in 1970 at the Company’s Thomas
J. Watson Research Center where he started technology transfer
programs to move the innovations of computer science from
IBM’s research labs into its product divisions. After
joining IBM’s product development organization in
1985, he continued his efforts to bring advanced technologies
to the marketplace, leading IBM’s initiatives in supercomputing
and parallel computing including the transformation of IBM’s
large commercial systems to parallel architectures. He has
managed a number of IBM’s businesses, including the
large systems software and the UNIX systems divisions.
Dr.
Wladawsky-Berger is Adjunct Professor in the Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business
School. He is a member of BP’s Technology Advisory
Council, the Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences
Division at the University of Chicago and the Board of Visitors
for the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
at the University of Texas at Austin. He was co-chair of
the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee,
as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and
Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.
He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board
of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories and of the
Board of Overseers for Fermilab. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named
the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year.
Dr.
Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics
from the University of Chicago.
Updated
June 2007
News
and announcements:
Prof.
Wladawsky-Berger in NY Times –
Why Old Technologies are Still Kicking
(April 1, 2008)
Prof.
Wladawsky-Berger on Lou Gerstner at
MIT (April 1, 2008)
New
Course in Techology-based Business
Transformation to be offered in Fall
2008 (June 1, 2007)
Irving
Wladawsky Berger on Systems Solutions
to Real World Challenges at NYPD:
The Real-Time Crime Center
(June 1, 2007)
ESD
Visting Professor Irving Waldawsky-Berger
retires from IBM (June 1,
2007)
MIT
World Video – Engineering
Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges
in Healthcare (April
15, 2007)
Irving
Wladawsky-Berger Panelist in Effective
Examples of Educational Technology
and Priorities for Future Investment,
now available on MIT World (April
15, 2007)
Irving
Wladawsky-Berger on A
Kind of 21st Century Digital Animation
Studio (April 3, 2007)
Irving
Wladawsky-Berger on Skills
for the 21st Century - Engineering
Systems Solutions to Real World Challenges
(November 3, 2006)
Applying
"lean" thinking to healthcare
solutions (December 29, 2006)
LAI
Book Receives IAA Award (November
7, 2003)
New
leadership at LFM-SDM (June
12, 2003)
Professor
Thomas J. Allen to be honored by Barcelona
University (September 2002)
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