2000's
- IBM recruiting brochure entitled Women and IBM - advancing the world
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2000
Abby Kohnstamm, who has led IBM's marketing organization since 1993, becomes IBM's first female senior vice president.
2001
- IBM launches "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day" as part of National Engineers Week (NEW) and IBM's sponsorship of 50th anniversary of NEW.
2002
Dr. Sandra K. Johnson becomes the first black woman elected to the IBM Academy of Technology.
- IBM Academy of Technology elects first Hispanic woman, Maria Azua, and the first Academy member from Spain, Elisa Martin-Garijo. The IBM Academy of Technology Class of 2002 had the largest class of women ever.
2003
- Josephine Cheng first female honored as the Asian American Engineer of the Year by the Chinese Institute of Engineers for her contributions to engineering. This is only the second year the award has been given.
- Jenny Choy first woman Distinguished Engineer appointee for Canada.
2006
Fran Allen was named the recipient of the A.M. Turing Award for contributions that fundamentally improved the performance of computer programs in solving problems, and accelerated the use of high performance computing. The award marked the first time that a woman had received the honor.
2006
IBM India proudly announces its first Senior Technical Staff Member in Suparna Bhattacharya at the Linux Technology Center, India Systems and Technology Lab. Appointment to Senior Technical Staff Member, a highly coveted technical recognition in IBM, is intended to recognize leaders in IBM scientific, engineering, systems and programming disciplines who, by virtue of their distinguished and sustained technical achievement, demonstrate a level of contribution and impact clearly above that expected of senior engineers, programmers and scientists.
2009
Dr. Chieko Asakawa, is named IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Accessibility Research, IBM Research.
2009
Anna Sienko, named IBM Country General Manager of Poland. After only 5 months since becoming the new CGM IBM Poland, Anna Sieńko was recognized in the Polish CEOs in Corporations 2009 study, and reached the 28th position of the top 50 CEO's from International companies.