Paul Horn

As Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research, Dr.  Paul M. Horn oversees the world's largest and most prolific  research organization dedicated to information technology.  Under Horn's leadership, IBM Research has produced an  unmatched string of technological breakthroughs --  including Deep Blue, the world's first copper chip, the  giant magneto-resistive (GMR) head and the world's first  provably unbreakable cryptosystem -- and been a champion  for translating technology research into real-world  products.

Horn is now focusing the efforts of more than 2,900 IBM  researchers at eight labs worldwide on what will be the two  defining technologies of the early 21st century:  Deep  Computing and Pervasive Computing.

Deep Computing represents the application of unprecedented processing power, advanced application-specific software and sophisticated algorithms to solve the truly complex  problems of businesses, governments and other  organizations. Pervasive Computing is IBM's vision of  building the foundation for a truly networked world, in  which billions of people are connected to the net by  hundreds of billions of devices conducting trillions of  informational and financial transactions.

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 development operation. As a  direct result of the lab's research efforts, IBM now  runs one of the industry's largest, fastest-growing and  most profitable storage businesses.

Horn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, NSF  Graduate Fellow and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow  from 1974-1978.  He is a former Associate Editor of  Physical Review Letters and is widely published.  In 1988  he received the Bertram Eugene Warren award from the  American Crystallographic Association.  He is also a member  of numerous professional committees including the Lincoln  Labs Advisory Board, the Princeton Materials Institute  Advisory Board, the University of Chicago Physical Sciences  Visiting Board, UC Berkeley Industrial Advisory Board, San Francisco State S&E Advisory Board, and is advisor to  the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry.

Horn graduated from Clarkson College of Technology and  received his doctoral degree from the University of  Rochester in 1973.  Prior to joining IBM in 1979, He was a  Professor in the Physics Department and the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago.