IBM Academy of Technology

A Second Chance for Second Life
Northrop, IBM Use Virtual World as Setting for Training, Employee Meetings

"... The marketers are being replaced by corporations that are using Second Life to host virtual conferences for employees or business partners.

Few have jumped in as deeply as International Business Machines Corp. Last year, IBM hosted an annual gathering of its leading thinkers in Second Life. The October event would have otherwise been scaled back because of the recession..."

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IBM Academy of Technology Tribute

Eight new IBM Fellows were chosen among thousands this year to join IBM's elite group of innovators.

The Academy respectfully salutes five of its members for being honored with this remarkable distinction: Chieko Asakawa, Satya Sharma, Roger Schmidt, Laura Haas, and Tim Vincent. With a bow and warm welcome into the Academy, we also applaud Dr. Martin Sepuveda, Michael Kaczmarski, and Hung Le for being admitted into this distinguished group of IBM's finest innovators.

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Also standing out from the crowd are 47 newly appointed IBM Distinguished Engineers for 2009, seven of which are Academy members. Please join us in congratulating our members outstanding technical achievement and leadership: Nobuhiro Asai, Don Campbell, Martin Jowett, Xin Sheng Mao, Ryhuii Ohtake, Mary Roth, and Michael Shallcross. This honor is not handed out lightly and carries with it increased responsibility: DEs participate in Academy of Technology studies, support the corporate technology team and represent IBM to professional societies, standards boards, industry associations, government agencies and academic institutions. They also attract, nurture and develop technical talent for IBM, as well as coach and mentor current employees.

The academy of the future
IBM's Academy of Technology blazes new trails in collaboration and Inclusion

Presentation in Second Life IBM's leading technical minds overcame budgetary challenges and stretched the boundaries of new collaboration technology to hold a new kind of annual meeting - virtually. And announced increased access to Academy membership... Read more... (PDF, 12KB)

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