C. Mohan
with IBM's then CEO Lou Gerstner at CTRE97 in Palm Beach, Florida
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Citation in
Corporate Technical Recognition Event (CTRE) booklet on C.
Mohan's IBM Fellow appointment on 3 June 1997: "Dr. Mohan is recognized worldwide as
a leading innovator in database transaction management.
His fundamental contributions have been incorporated into
major IBM database
and transaction
processing products, including DB2
MVS, S/390
Parallel Sysplex, DB2/CS,
SQL/DS, IMS/ESA,
ADSM,
MQSeries,
SNA LU6.2, and others. His innovations have had a
dramatic influence industry-wide and have been adopted as
industry standards and taught in university courses. His
work has been central to enabling the high-performance,
large-scale, distributed transaction systems that are now
the norm for critical enterprise applications."
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Tidbits on IBM Fellows
- Appointment to the IBM Executive position of
Fellow is the highest honor a technologist can
attain at IBM and it is made by IBM's CEO
typically at the annual CTRE event in June
- Currently, there are 75 IBM Fellows amongst the close to 400,000 IBMers
- Including the 8 Fellows named in 2009, 216 people
have been appointed IBM Fellows since the program
began in 1963 - among them 5 Nobel laureates (Georg
Bednorz, Gerd
Binnig, Leo
Esaki, Alex
Müller, Heinrich
Röhrer) and 5 ACM Turing Award Winners (Fran
Allen, John
Backus, John
Cocke, Edgar
"Ted" Codd, Ken
Iverson)
- Current/past IBMers who were made IBM Fellows for
their contributions to the database management
field: Ted Codd (1976-1984), Don
Haderle (1989-2005), Pat
Selinger (1994-2005), Bruce
Lindsay (1996-2008), C. Mohan
(1997), Hamid
Pirahesh (1999), Josephine
Cheng (2000), Rakesh
Agrawal (2002-2006), Don Chamberlin
(2003-2008),
Curt Cotner (2004), Yun Wang (2005), Laura
Haas (2009), Tim Vincent (2009)
- A sampling of other current/past IBM Fellows: Ramesh
Agarwal, Gene
Amdahl, Ravi
Arimilli, Charles
Bennett, Enrico
Clementi, Mike
Cowlishaw, Mark
Dean, Robert
Dennard, Don
Eigler, Don
Ferguson, Richard
Garwin, Herman
Goldstine, Ralph
Gomory, Cesar
Gonzales, Irene
Greif, Ray
Harishankar, Andy
Heller, Glenn
Henry, Ellis
Johnson, Rolf
Landauer, Benoit
Mandelbrot, Jai
Menon, Harlan
Mills, Stuart
Parkin, Nick
Pippinger, Ted
Selker, David
Thompson, Rao
Tummala, Mark
Wegman, Grant
Willson, Jerry
Woodall
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