2007 Open House Keynote Speaker

About the Keynote Speaker: Stuart Feldman

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Stuart Feldman is world renowned for his strategy work with IBM. Now at Google, he oversees the engineering activities for the eastern American division. Before moving to Google in 2007, Feldman worked at IBM for the past 11 years, serving most recently as the Vice President for Internet Technology. In this role, he was responsible for implementing exploratory, long-term global science strategies within computer science and related fields. Feldman also led collaborative research programs with universities and influenced global computer science policies.

Prior to that high-level position, Feldman managed IBM’s policies, strategies, and standards for future Internet use, a department that created experimental Internet-based applications. They also ran the Extreme Blue Program. Before working his way to that position, Feldman served as the founding Director of IBM’s Institute for Advanced Commerce, focused on creating intellectual leadership in e-commerce environments.

In advance of life at IBM, Feldman worked as a computer science researcher at Bell Labs in the mid-1990s and at Bellcore as a research manager. Among his innovations, he created Make and served as the architect for a line of software from Bellcore.

Feldman earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. in mathematics and astrophysics at Princeton University. In addition to his degrees and innovations, he also serves as the President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Council and received the ACM Software System Award in 2003. He is also an IEEE and ACM Fellow and serves on a number of government committees.