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Biography
Dr. Paul M. Horn oversees the world's largest and most prolific research organization
dedicated to information technology, with 3,000 researchers at eight labs worldwide.
Under Horn's leadership as senior vice-president and director, IBM Research has
produced an unmatched string of technological breakthroughs, including the chess-playing
supercomputer Deep Blue, the world's first copper chip, the giant magneto-resistive
head and strained silicon (a discovery that allows chips to run up to 35% faster).
A solid state physicist by training, Horn has also led IBM Research into a distinctly
cross-disciplinary Grand Challenge with project Blue Gene-- a $100 million dollar
effort to build the world’s first petafolp-scale computer for the express
purpose of helping to understand how human proteins fold.
In addition, Horn has implemented a unique management system which views as
inextricably linked the need to conduct exploratory research and the delivery
of marketplace-ready technology. As a result, IBM Research consistently speeds
the flow of innovation through IBM’s product groups to the market while
pursuing research areas likely to yield groundbreaking or even disruptive technologies
in a number of key areas including semiconductors, data management, servers
and middleware. In 2002, Horn announced the formation of On Demand Innovation
Services, an organization with IBM’s Research division where scientists
work directly with customers as consultants to gather real-word requirements
and problems to fuel research projects. Horn views this as the vanguard for
the next exciting area of I/T research.
Horn was previously vice president and lab director of IBM Research’s
Almaden Research Center in San Jose. He graduated from Clarkson College of Technology
and received his doctoral degree in physics from the University of Rochester
in 1973. Prior to joining IBM in 1979, Horn was a professor of physics in the
James Franck Institute and the Physics Department and at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Horn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was an Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellow from 1974-1978. He is a former Associate Editor of Physical
Review Letters and has published over 85 scientific and technical papers.
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