IBM Fellow

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An IBM Fellow is an appointed position at IBM made by IBM’s CEO. Typically only 4 to 9 IBM Fellows are appointed each year in May or June. It is the highest honor a scientist, engineer, or programmer at IBM can achieve.

The IBM Fellows program was founded in 1962 by Thomas J. Watson, Jr., as a way to promote creativity among the company’s “most exceptional” technical professionals. The first appointments were made in 1963. The criteria for appointment are stringent and take into account only the most significant technical achievements. In addition to a history of extraordinary accomplishments, candidates must also be considered to have the potential to make continued contributions. Francis E. Hamilton is believed to be the first IBM Fellow, appointed in 1963 for amongst other things his work on the development of the 650 Magnetic Drum Data Processing Machine.[1]

IBM Fellows are given broad latitude to identify and pursue projects in their area of expertise.

Since 1963, only 246 IBMers have earned the IBM Fellow distinction, and 85 of them remain active IBM employees. IBM Fellows have generated nearly 7,500 patents, received five Nobel prizes, thousands of government and professional citations and have a massive store of published research in scientific journals.[2] The IBM Technical Community numbers over 200,000 people, including over 600 IBM Distinguished Engineers – out of a total of 433,000 employees.

List of IBM Fellows [edit]

In chronological order, as of 2013, incomplete:

References [edit]

The Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) commemorative book for each year lists the IBM Fellows designated in that year. In 2009, a similar Corporate Technical Recognition (CTR) book was published, but there was no CTRE. The following have been used to verify the names and dates for those years in the list above:

  • IBM CTRE Book, June 5–8, 1984
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 11–14, 1987, Orlando, Florida
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 16–19, 1988
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 4–7, 1990
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 5–8, 1995, San Diego, California
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 9–12, 1998, San Francisco, California
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 8–11, 1999, Naples, Florida
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 5–8, 2000
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 29–June 1, 2001
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 4–7, 2002
  • IBM CTRE Book, June 2–5, 2003
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 25–28, 2004
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 24–27, 2005
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 23–26, 2006
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 14–17, 2007
  • IBM CTRE Book, May 12–15, 2008, Phoenix, Arizona
  • IBM CTR Book, individually distributed, 2009
  • IBM CTR Book, individually distributed, 2010



  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "There are but a few," IBM Corporation, 1981
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i "IBM Awards Highest Technical Honor to Eight New Fellows as Company Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Program". IBM. Retrieved 3 April 2013. 
  3. ^ a b c d e David W. Kean, "IBM San Jose A Quarter Century of Innovation" IBM Corp. circa 1977
  4. ^ Herman Heine Goldstine, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
  5. ^ Richard Goering: “Bill Beausoleil, 1950s Computer Pioneer, Shapes RTL Emulation Technology Today”, Industry Insights Blog, Cadence. November 15, 2012.
  6. ^ ″Harlan D. Mills retires,″ press release, IBM Federal Systems Division. June 23, 1987. (Last page in linked document.)
  7. ^ "Honorary Fellows - 2003 - Professor Sir Alec Broers". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 16 October 2011 (2011-10-16). 
  8. ^ a b c "IBM Names Three Fellows For Technical Contributions". Computerworld. May 25, 1981. Retrieved 6 April 2013. 
  9. ^ a b c d e “Five top innovators named IBM Fellows”, IBM. 2004.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g “2012 IBM Fellows”, IBM.
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