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About the Company

IBM is a global technology and innovation company headquartered in Armonk, NY. It is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 400,000 employees serving clients in 170 countries. IBM offers a wide range of technology and consulting services; a broad portfolio of middleware for collaboration, predictive analytics, software development and systems management; and the world`s most advanced servers and supercomputers. Utilizing its business consulting, technology and R&D expertise, IBM helps clients become ""smarter"" as the planet becomes more digitally interconnected. IBM invests more than $6 billion a year in R&D, just completing its 18th year of patent leadership. IBM Research has received recognition beyond any commercial technology research organization and is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 10 Inductees in US Inventors Hall of Fame. The company was behind the inventions of the PC; SABRE travel reservation system; UPC codes, Watson, the Jeopardy!-playing computing system, and much more.

About the Person

Emerging Internet Technology group and also holds the title of Distinguished Engineer. He is leading work in many areas including Cloud Computing, Mobile, Graphics, Mobile Identity and Big Data analytics. Previously, David Boloker was responsible for the commercialization of the “Watson machine.” David has developed an internet-based data exploration tool to support development and testing of hypotheses regarding complex genetic and environmental relationships in the development of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) in collaboration with COPDGene investigators in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Advanced Medical Imaging and COPDGene. David is also responsible for forming IBM’s technical strategy around the emerging areas of Mobile Identity and gaining insights from big data. In this role, he leads an globally distributed IBM team researching new areas in software design and development. In the Watson work, David and his team took the system that played Jeopardy (TM ) and created a multipurpose machine that can analyze information and provide solutions across the industry from Healthcare to Financial to Retail. Throughout David’s extensive career at IBM, he has held the role of CTO for Java technology, he’s worked at IBM’s esteemed Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and the Cambridge Scientific Center doing research in the area of remote distribution and control of hardware and software systems and secure internet gateways.