Computer scientists who made IBM Research famous - overview
IBM Research has a long history of promoting technological innovation around the world.
Frances Allen Biography and oral history Wikipedia entry
Marc Auslander LinkedIn profile
John Backus, 1924-2007 Wikipedia entry IBM Archives Stanford Archives NNDB profile Columbia University page New York Times obituary John Backus Memorial (pdf)
Charles Bennett Wikipedia entry
Erich Bloch IBM Archives Wikipedia entry NNDB profile
Grady Booch Researcher personal page Wikipedia entry My developerWorks blog Handbook of software architecture (blog) IEEE Software: On Architecture (podcast) The Promise, The Limits, The Beauty of Software (Yahoo video)
Fred Brooks: Began his career at IBM Research Wikipedia entry The Mythical Man-Mouth (Wikipedia) Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything (Wired) NNDB profile Innovator: Fred Brooks (Bloomberg Businessweek) The Grill: Fred Brooks (Computerworld)
Peter Brown Business Insider (thumbnail)
Larry Carter University of California, San Diego SIAM short course
Alan Cobham Recursivity (Blogspot) Cobham's thesis P (complexity)
John Cocke, 1925-2001 IBM obituary (press release) New York Times obituary Wikipedia entry Tributes (includes video produced by Fran Allen) Just Curious: An interview with John Cocke
Edgar F. Codd IBM obituary Wikipedia entry New York Times obituary Facebook page
Don Coppersmith Wikipedia entry Cryptolounge profile Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm
Curt Cotner Future technology directions for Java access to databases (video)
Brenda Dietrich Fast Company profile
Bob O. Evans The genesis of the mainframe (pdf) A memory from his secretary New York Times obituary
Ron Fagin IBM Research web page Wikipedia entry
Horst Feistel, 1915-1990 Wikipedia entry
Jeanne Ferrante University of California, San Diego Wikipedia entry
Zvi Galil: Began his career at IBM Research Wikipedia entry Georgia Tech College of Computing
Ralph Gomory IBM Builders Wikipedia entry Cutting plane method (Wikipedia) NYU/Stern Huffington post blog
Jim Gray, 1944-2007 (lost at sea) Wikipedia entry Microsoft web page (includes publications) Work of computer genius Jim Gray flourished amid research freedom (The Seattle Times) A tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes nice guys do finish first (The New York Times) Vast search off coast for data wizard (San Francisco Chronicle) Jim Gray projects: TerraServer SkyServer
Irene Greif IBM Research web page IBM Archives Lemelson-MIT Program: Inventor of the Week WITI (bio and video)
Laura Haas IBM Research web page A conversation with IBM Fellow Laura Haas (video) Impact! The Challenge of Industrial Research in Computer Science in a web 2.0 world (video) Distinguished Speakers Program (ACM) Extensible Query Processing in Starburst (pdf)
Joe Halpern Home page Wikipedia entry
Kenneth Iverson Wikipedia entry Autobiography About APL A personal view of APL
Fred Jelinek, 1932-2010 Johns Hopkins University web page Wikipedia entry New York Times obituary Tribute on Google Research blog ACL lifetime achievement award
Reynold B. Johnson IBM Archives Wikipedia entry
Dick Karp University of California at Berkeley web page Dick Karp receives National Medal of Science Wikipedia entry Karp's 21 NP-complete problems (Wikipedia)
Steve Lavenberg IBM Research web page 2005 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010 MacTutor History of Mathematics Yale University website Wikipedia entry TED talk NNDB profile New York Times obituary
Jai Menon IBM Almaden website
Bob Mercer Business Insider (thumbnail)
Robert Morris Bio The smartest people in tech (CNNMoney) At 2010 Almaden Institute
Michael Rabin Harvard University web page Wikipedia entry Michael O. Rabin wins Dan David Prize Google interview
Arthur Samuel, 1901-1990 Wikipedia entry, Stanford memorial resolution, Facebook page, Chess Programming (wiki), Samuel's checkers player
Herb Schorr University of Southern California web page
Alfred Spector Wikipedia entry Google profile Carnegie Mellon profile ComputerWorld interview: Google's Alfred Spector on the hot seat
Gerald Tesauro TD-Gammon (Wikipedia entry), Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon, Watson's wagering strategies, Fifty years of RL in games (video lecture)
Moshe Vardi Home page Wikipedia entry
John Vlissides, 1961-2005 In memoriam Wikipedia entry
Mark Wegman IBM Research web page Wikipedia entry
Shmuel Winograd Wikipedia entry Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm
Philip S. Yu Privacy preserving data mining
Last updated on December 17, 2012