Why IBM is a great place to work

Top Employer to work for 2009
Top Employer 2007-2008
Gouden bedrijf 2008 - Jobat
IBM Luxembourg: Best Technology Company - ICT awards 2007 - Luxembourg
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2006 - IT Integrator of the Year - DataNews
2007 - Most Gay-Lesbian and Bisexual-friendly employer
2006 - CAP 48 (RTBF's Diversity award)

At IBM, Research and Development fuel innovation. The company is proud of its people always willing to go the extra mile to ensure we stay at the forefront of our industry.
As invention and research lie at the basis of innovation, IBM enables its employees to work together, share their knowledge and experience with eachother and the world.
It's embedded in one of our values: Innovation that matters, for our company and for the world.
Below you will find a number of IBMers and ex-IBMers who have clearly made a difference in the history of our world.

1. 1987

   J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller
   were awarded a Nobel Prize for their discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in a new class of materials. They discovered that a particular class of oxides can conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures significantly higher than previously acheived. Applications of high-temperature superconductors include devices to measure extremely small magnetic fields, which can be used for geophysical exploration and medical diagnostic procedures.

1. 1986

   Gerd K. Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
   received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, which could provide atomic resolution images of surfaces.

1. 1973

   Leo Esaki
   was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the electron tunneling effect in semiconductors. Esaki was the co-inventor of semiconductor superlattices and explored the extraordinary properties of these engineered quantum structures.

is the Association for Computing Machinery's most prestigious technical award. It is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community.

A. M. Turing Award Recipients

• 2006 - Frances E. Allen for pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution.
• 1999 - Frederick P. Brooks for landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering.
• 1987 - John Cocke for significant contributions in the design and theory of compilers, the architecture of large systems and the development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC); for discovering and systematizing many fundamental transformations now used in optimizing compilers including reduction of operator strength, elimination of common subexpressions, register allocation, constant propagation, and dead code elimination.
• 1981 - Edgar F. Codd for his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems. He originated the relational approach to database management in a series of research papers published commencing in 1970. His paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks" was a seminal paper, in a continuing and carefully developed series of papers. Dr. Codd built upon this space and in doing so has provided the impetus for widespread research into numerous related areas, including database languages, query subsystems, database semantics, locking and recovery, and inferential subsystems.
• 1979 - Kenneth E. Iverson for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice.
• 1977 - John Backus for profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages.

National Medal of Technology - Awarded by the President of the United States for promotion of technology or technological manpower.

National Medal of Science - Awarded by the President of the United States for outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.

Wolf Foundation Prize - Six prizes awarded every year to outstanding scientists and artists for achievements in agriculture, chemistry, mathematics, medicine, and physics for science and in the Arts, the prize rotates annually among music, painting, sculpture and architecture. $100,000 and a certificate.
1993 - Benoit Mandelbrot

The Franklin Medal

The Franklin Institute's highest honor for those working in physical science or technology, and whose efforts have done most to advance a knowledge of physical science or its applications. Established in 1914. Gold Medal. Awarded annually.
2007 - Robert Dennard
1986 - Benoit Mandelbrot

IBM highest technical honor is the designation of IBM Fellow. Fellows are selected for sustained and distinguished technical achievements in engineering, programming and technology. Since the program began in 1963, only 194 people have been designated IBM Fellows. Fellows are granted a wide sphere of independence in the pursuit of their research.

IBM Fellows have invented some of the industry's most useful and profitably applied technologies. Few computer users may realize how much of this group's innovations have created the computer technology we take for granted.

In 2007, six new Fellows were named. There are currently 67 active employees who are IBM Fellows.

For the past 15 years, IBM has been awarded the most U.S. patents. In 2007, the company earned 3,125 patents. In 2006 -- with 3,621 patents -- IBM set the record for the most U.S. patents earned in a single year.

To help ensure that reforms, such as patent quality, are appropriately balanced for all constituents, IBM will hold an "Inventors' Forum," an online initiative to enable representatives of a broad segment of the invention community to share ideas, learn from the experience of others, and influence reform in ways that take the needs of their businesses into account.

Highlights of IBM's 2007 patent story.

• Delphion Intellectual Property Network for all U.S. patents.
• Recent External Honors
• Pradip Bose
• Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE Computer Society
• Jen-Yao Chung
• Editor-in-Chief, Service Oriented Computing and Applications Journal, Springer
• Mark Dean
• The Percy Julian Award & Outstanding Scientist of the Year, The Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers
• Brenda Dietrich
• President, INFORMS
• Peter Dill
• PCB Technology Leadership Award, Mentor Graphics
• Fred Douglis
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Internet Computing
• Emanuel Loertscher
• Award for Applied Physics, Swiss Physical Society
• Harold Ossher
• Editor-in-Chief, LNCS Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Springer
• Mary Y Wisniewski
• Engineer of the Year 2006 award, from the NY Section IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Society
• Hwa N Yu
• Distinguished International Services Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers-USA