Different Paths to Fellow
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Abstract
The objective of the panel is to provide an overview of different career paths that led to Fellow at a variety of leading technology companies. The panel will highlight that there is not a single path; conversely it will show that there are shared traits that are important to achieving this career goal. Common traits will be explored, including: intelligence, tenacity, vision, and the ability to influence thought leadership.
About the Presenters
Panelists: Carol Eidt (MIcrosoft), Jamie Erbes (HP), Kelin Kuhn (Intel), Joanne Martin (IBM), and Radia Perlman (Intel)
Carol Thompson Eidt is an architect on the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in Microsoft, continuing a lifetime passion for code transformation and performance. She joined Microsoft in November 2005, after 22 years at HP, where she was the first female Fellow in the company. Her career has encompassed compiler optimization, code generation, instruction set architecture, dynamic translation, and systems management software. She was on the design team for both the PA-RISC and Itanium architectures, designed and developed compiler optimization for both processor families, and has participated in the standardization of both C# and CLI.
Jamie Erbes has more than 20 years of leadership, innovation and influence in networks, data centers and workflow automation. As an HP Fellow and director of Services Research in HP Labs, she is responsible for research and development of operating models, process automation and operations research to help HP and its customers make the most of a future where we see “Everything as a Service.” Previously, Erbes was CTO for HP Software business, supporting the company-wide software strategy for IT management software. Erbes holds a computer science degree from East Central University in Oklahoma.
Dr. Kelin J. Kuhn is an Intel Fellow in the Technology and Manufacturing Group and director of Advanced Device Technology. In this role, she is responsible for device architecture path finding for Intel’s advanced process technologies. Dr. Kuhn joined Intel in 1997 working on Intel’s 0.35 micron process technology. Since then, she has been involved in Intel’s manufacturing process technology development for the 0.35 micron, 130nm, 90nm, 45nm and 22nm technology nodes. Previously, she was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Kuhn is an IEEE Fellow, the past recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award for her work on strained layer III-V materials and two Intel IAA awards, one for her work on Hi-K metal gate transistors and one for her work on the 22nm device architecture. She is the author of more than 80 technical papers in electronic and photonics, and has also authored a textbook on laser engineering. Dr. Kuhn earned her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1980. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985.
Joanne Martin is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Corporate Technology at IBM. She is responsible for the development of IBM’s technical strategy and for the vitality of the global technical community. She is Past-President of the IBM Academy of Technology and has held a variety of technical and executive roles since joining IBM Research in 1984 and was named by Working Mother magazine as one of the 25 most influential working mothers for 1998. Joanne earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1981, and began her research career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Radia Perlman joined Intel Labs, as a Fellow, in 2010. She is the inventor of many innovations in computer networking, especially in the area of network routing and security protocols. She has authored two widely used networking textbooks, and holds about 100 patents. She has been recognized with numerous industry awards including an honorary doctorate from KTH, the SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award, the Usenix Association lifetime achievement award, and the Women of Vision Award for Innovation. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.
