Shirley Ann Jackson Elected to IBM Board of Directors.ARMONK, N.Y. -- The IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) board of directors today elected Shirley Ann Jackson to the board. Dr. Jackson is president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, N.Y.; coeducational; founded and opened 1824 as Rensselaer School; chartered 1826. It was called Rensselaer Institute from 1837 to 1861. . Samuel J. Palmisano Samuel J. Palmisano (born July 29, 1951) is the current Chairman, CEO, and President of IBM, one of the world's largest IT companies. He was elected Chairman in October 2002, effective January 1, 2003, and has served as Chief Executive Officer since March 2002. , IBM chairman and chief executive officer, said: "Shirley Ann Jackson's significant background and experience in technology and her leadership at one of the most highly regarded technological research universities in the world will make her a valuable member of our board. We are very pleased she is joining us." Prior to becoming the president of Rensselaer, Dr. Jackson held senior positions in government, research and in academia -- as a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1976 to 1991, as professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995 and as chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an independent U.S. government commission, created by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 and charged with licensing and regulating civilian use of nuclear energy to protect the public and the environment. from 1995 until she assumed her current position at Rensselaer in 1999. Dr. Jackson, 59, holds a bachelor's degree in physics and a doctorate in theoretical elementary particle physics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . She is currently a director of the following companies -- FedEx Corporation, Marathon Oil Corporation, Medtronic Inc., Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated and United States Steel Corporation. Dr. Jackson's election to the IBM board is effective today, bringing the board to a total of 13 members. |
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