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IBM Almaden Research Center
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Dr. Robert J.T. Morris
VP, Personal Systems & Storage
Director, Almaden Research Center
IBM Research
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Biography
Dr. Robert J.T. Morris is the director of the IBM Almaden Research
Center. At this lab he oversees more than 500 scientists and engineers
doing exploratory and applied research in hardware and software areas,
such as nanotechnology, materials science, hard disk drives, storage
systems, data management, web technologies and user interfaces. Dr.
Morris is also vice president for personal systems and storage research,
guiding the direction of IBM's worldwide research in these areas.
A computer scientist, he has more than 20 years' experience in the
IT industry. Dr. Morris joined IBM at the Almaden Research Center
working on storage and data management technologies. Before returning
as lab director three years ago, he led teams in personal systems
research at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. He began
his career at Bell Laboratories doing research in computer communications
technology.
Dr. Morris was recently named chairman of the Bay Area Science Infrastructure
Consortium. He has published more than 50 articles in computer science,
electrical engineering and mathematics literature and has received
11 patents. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University
of California at Los Angeles and is a member of the IBM Academy of
Technology and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was an editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Computers from 1986-1991. He twice served as vice-chair
for the International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems and
has served on advisory boards for several universities.
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