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Paul Horn's page
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 (GMR) and strained silicon (a discovery that allows chips to run up to 35 percent faster). A solid state physicist by training, Horn has also led IBM Research into a distinctly cross-disciplinary Grand Challenge with Blue Gene-- a $100 million dollar effort to build the world’s first petaflop-scale computer for the express purpose of helping to understand how human proteins fold.
In addition, Horn has implemented a unique management system that views the need to conduct exploratory research and the delivery of marketplace-ready technology as inextricably linked. 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.
Horn is currently focusing the division on several crucial areas of research: the ongoing grand challenge for the I/T industry to build “autonomic computing systems," delivery of the technologies to support IBM’s on demand strategy, and the exploration of novel modes of storage, processing and computing, such as nanomechanical devices, atomic-scale manipulation, carbon nanotube structures and so-called "superhuman speech systems."
In 2002, Horn announced the formation of On Demand Innovation Services, an organization within IBM Research where scientists work directly with clients as consultants to gather real-world requirements and problems to fuel research projects.
And in May of 2004, Horn hosted the "Architecture of On Demand Business" summit, inviting professors from many of the top universities to join IBM researchers in a discussion about the need for establishing Services Science as a cutting-edge area of bona fide scientific inquiry. Horn views this as the vanguard of the next exciting area of research for the company, the industry and for the world economy.
Horn was previously vice president and lab director of IBM Research’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, where he was credited with tightly linking research innovation with the corporation’s storage and database development operations.
Horn 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 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.
Horn has received numerous awards, including the 1988 Bertram Eugene Warren award from the American Crystallographic Association, the 2000 Distinguished Leadership award from the New York Hall of Science, the 2002 Hutchison Medal from the University of Rochester, and the 2002 Pake Prize from the American Physical Society. In 2002, he was also named as one of America’s top technical leaders by Scientific American Magazine. He is a member of numerous professional committees, including the Clarkson Industry University Board of Trustees, the University of California - Berkeley Industrial Advisory Board, the Gallaudet University Advisory Board, and is a trustee of the New York Hall of Science and the Committee for Economic Development.
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"Autonomic Computing: IBM's Perspective on the State of Information Technology", Horn, Paul October 15, 2001.
"Information Will Change Everything", Horn, Paul, Research Technology Management, vol. 42, no. 1, January 1999.
"The Role of Basic Research in Communications and Electronics" Horn, Paul, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no, 11, November 1999.
"Creativity and the Bottom Line" Horn, Paul, Financial Times, November 11, 1997.
"Experimental Study of Critical Mass Fluctuations in an Evolving Sandpile" G. A. Held, D. H. Solina, D. T. Keane, W. J. Haag, P. M. Horn, G. Grinstein, Physical Review Letters, vol. 65, no. 9, p. 1120-3, 27 August 1990.
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IBM's Path From Invention to Income (Forbes, August 2003)
IBM's R&D Work as One (eWeek, August 2003)
Paul Horn directs IBM Research into autonomic computing development:
(InfoWorld, March 2001)
Using Humans as a Computer Model (New York Times, October 2001)
IBM tweaks U.S. Open Web site (CBS MarketWatch, September 2001)
How Big Blue Plays D (Business 2.0, August 2001)
Commentary: Research Labs Get Real. It's About Time (Business Week, November 2000)
Beyond Tomorrow (Computer Reseller News, October 2000)
Profile: Answer Man (Chain Store Age, October 2000)
Paul Horn Foretells Technologic "Third Wave" (RockyMountainNews.com, September 2000)
Future of technology (Boulder Daily Camera, September 200)
Blue Gene: a mighty protein prober (Red Herring, September 2000)
IBM Goes Countercultural With Linux (NY Times, March 2000)
Paul Horn: A look into the future (St. Petersburg Times, January 2000)
As the century turns, technology experts predict what tomorrow will bring (St. Petersburg Times, January 2000)
IBM delves into body mysteries (USA Today, December 1999)
IBM computer to tackle protein puzzle (USA Today, December 1999)
IBM to build supercomputer (December 1999)
IBM to research proteins with supercomputer (December 1999)
IBM developing world's fastest computer (USA Today, December 1999)
IBM announces mammoth 'Blue Gene' supercomputer (ZDNet, December 1999)
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