Keynote Speaker

Stuart Feldman, IBM Vice President

Computer Science, Research Lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)

I am responsible for driving the long term and exploratory worldwide science strategy in computer science and connected fields such as mathematics, management sciences, social sciences, and for ensuring that IBM Research is firmly established as the premier place to conduct computer science research in the world. Previously, I was responsible for the overall strategy and execution of the business-oriented parts of the software and services strategy: industry knowledge and solutions, business collaboration, optimization, and process transformation as well as digital media and electronic commerce.

Before that, as Vice President for Internet Technology in the Systems and Technology Group, I was responsible for overall strategies relating to the future of the Internet and providing thought leadership for IBM’s Systems and Technology Group. My department created experimental Internet-based applications, key Internet standards and policies, and ran the Extreme Blue program.

Earlier I was the founding director of the IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce . On a technical level, most people think of me as the creator of Make and the author of the first Fortran 77 compilers, but I have committed other technical sins as well. I have worked in most areas of computer science, have published and spoken on numerous topics. I belong to numerous university and national advisory boards. I joined IBM in 1995 as Department Group Manager, Network Applications Research. Prior to coming to IBM, I spent eleven years at Bellcore. I held several research management positions in software engineering and computing systems and was also chief architect of a major new product line for operations support of broadband networks. I was the Technical Leader of the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C), an international research group made up of leading telecommunications and computing companies around the world. Before joining Bellcore, I was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a member of the original UNIX research team. I have published numerous research papers in software engineering, programming languages, scientific computing, and other fields. I am an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, recipient of the ACM Software Systems Award, and am currently Vice President of ACM. I am also on the board of the UCLA Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics and on the international science advisory group for National ICT Austria.

I served on the board of the Computing Research Association(CRA), of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), and was chair of ACM SIGPLAN and founding chair of ACM SIGecom. I am on the editorial board of ACM Queue magazine and have also served on the boards of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. I received an A.B. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology