Dr. Stuart Feldman - 2005 Academy of Management Distinguished Executive Award

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

     He was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager at Bellcore before joining IBM in mid-1995. He has published research in software engineering (and was the creator of Make), programming languages, scientific computing and other areas of computer science. He was also architect for a large new line of software products at Bellcore.

     He is the recipient of the 2003 ACM Software System Award.

     Feldman joined IBM in 1995. He was Head of Computer Science for IBM Research, with worldwide responsibility for growth and focus on research in computing. He was also Director of IBM's Institute for Advanced Commerce, dedicated to intellectual leadership and new technologies in e-commerce. He was next IBM's Vice President for Internet Technology, responsible for corporate strategies relating to the future of the Internet, leadership in new technologies and a department that creates experimental Internet-based applications.

     He is now Vice President for On Demand Business Transformation Strategy in IBM Research, responsible for defining and coordinating activity in I BM's Research labs worldwide in the areas of business process integration, management, collaboration, optimization as well as for industry-specific knowledge and solutions.

 

2005 Academy of Management Convocation and Distinguished Executive Speaker
Sunday, August 7, 2005 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m
Hawaii Convention Center Ballroom