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Irving
Wladawsky-Berger
Visiting
Professor
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)
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