Stuart Feldman is Director of the IBM Institute of Advanced Commerce which brings together top leaders in business and academia to research the impact of emerging technologies on the future of business and commerce. His organization includes over 50 IBM scientists whose projects focus primarily on advanced solutions and technologies for complex business-to-business applications. In addition, as Director of Networked Computing Software, he manages a technical staff of about 100 researchers in network-related technologies, including web servers, anti-virus software, advanced multimedia, high-performance databases, distributed computing and e-commerce.

Mr. Feldman was the technical leader of the Telecommunications information Networking Architecture Consortium (TINA-C), an international research group made up of leading telecommunications and computing companies around the world. He is a Fellow of ACM and of IEEE and is Chair of the newly-founded ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecomm).