Abstract:

    This talk will describe the ways that IBM Research achieves the twin goals of creation and impact. We innovate through scientific research in a wide variety of areas, and also work to produce technology that is needed and can be used as the information technology fields change.

    This requires both patient investment in core areas as well as shifts of focus as the industry and market transform. Such an environment offers a number of alternatives for research careers, which will be personally illustrated.

Stuart Feldman’s Bio：

    Feldman did his academic work (AB, Princeton and PhD, MIT) in astrophysics and mathematics. He is President of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery).

    He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International) and of the CRA (Computing Research Association). He was chair of ACM SIGPLAN and founding chair of ACM SIGecom. He has taught E-Commerce Courses at Yale School of Management and is a Consulting Professor of Information Technology at Carnegie-Mellon West.

    Feldman received the ACM Software System Award in 2003 and the Distinguished Executive of the Year from the Academy of Management in 2005. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.

He serves on a number of advisory committees, including the NSF Advisory Committee on Cyber Infrastructure, the Networking and Information Technology Advisory Group to the (US) President’s Advisory Council of Advisors on Science and Technology , the International Science Advisory Group for National ICT Australia, and the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics.

    Feldman joined IBM in 1995 and is now Vice President, Computer Science in IBM Research. He is responsible for driving the long term and exploratory worldwide science strategy in computer science and connected fields such as the mathematical, management sciences, and social sciences. He leads programs for adventurous research and university collaborations, represents computer science research at senior management levels in Research and in IBM, and influences national and worldwide computer science policy. He is also the technical leader of the Research Division solution engineering initiative.

Contact: Prof. Zhisheng Niu