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JANUARY 4-7, 2006
DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
"Innovation in the 21st
Century" |
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Vice president, Technical Strategy and Innovation, IBM
Dr. Irving
Wladawsky-Berger will
give the 2006 Distinguished Lecture at HICSS-39, Friday afternoon beginning at
5pm immediately following the afternoon paper sessions.
Dr. Wladawsky-Berger
is 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 these developments. As part of this effort, he leads a number of key
innovation-oriented activities and formulates technology strategy and public
policy positions. He also is responsible for the IBM Academy of Technology and
the company's university relations office.
His role in IBM's response to emerging technologies began in December 1995 when he was charged with formulating IBM's strategy in the then- emerging Internet opportunity. He was also charged with developing and bringing to market leading-edge Internet technologies that could be integrated into IBM's mainstream business. He has led a number of IBM's company-wide initiatives including Linux, IBM's Next Generation Internet efforts, and its work on Grid computing.
"We are members of an industry that's out to change the world."
He joined IBM in 1970 at the 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 a member of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories and of the Technology Advisory Council for BP International. 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 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba (having come to the United States at age 15), 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.