Schenectady, N.Y. (Oct. 7, 2003) – Dr. Paul M. Horn, IBM senior vice president
and director of research, will deliver the 66th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture, “The
Future of Information Technology,” on Monday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Union
College's Memorial Chapel.
The lecture, cosponsored by the College's Division of Engineering and the
Schenectady Section of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, is free and open
to the public.
An exhibition on Steinmetz in the Nott Memorial will be on display during the
talk.
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, IBM Research has produced a 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).
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.
The Steinmetz Memorial Lecture Endowment Fund was created in 1925 as a tribute
to Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865-1923). Since then, more than 60 eminent
scientists and engineers have presented public lectures on the Union College campus
in honor of the GE scientist and Union professor who was one of the greatest
contributors to the growth of the electrical industry in the United States.
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