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of the [IT] industry’s growth and enterprises’ highest-value leverage of IT will be driven by cloud services and the other third-platform technologies.”
A leading cloud computing tech and corporate executive is Lauren C. States, vice president and chief technology officer for cloud computing and growth initiatives on the IBM Cor- porate Strategy team.
Since joining IBM in 1978, after receiving a bachelor of sci- ence degree in economics from the University of Pennsylva- nia’s Wharton School, States’ career at Big Blue has been a roadmap for steady ascent. She began as a systems engineer, moved into management, then a business unit, became an executive assistant to the SVP of Technology, and in 2000 moved into the first of several vice president positions.
She was promoted to her current post in 2011, moving from leadership of more than 5,000 colleagues in technical sales and sales enablement for IBM Software Group.
Currently, States leads a team that develops the technolo- gy strategy for growth initiatives at IBM and works directly with clients, many of whom are in the defense industry, on cloud computing solutions, software, business analytics and emerging markets.
FCW.com, which covers federal technology executives, reported that States’ signature accomplishment has been developing cloud computing principles that the Depart- ment of Defense has adopted.
Last year, she was selected as a member of the Federal 100 by
FCW.com: The Business of Federal Technology. In 2012, States was also honored by CloudNow, a consortium of women in cloud computing, where she is a member of the advisory board as one of the Top Women in Cloud.
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH
Has Jennifer Chayes found a way to clone herself and not told anyone, or does the interdisciplinary STEM maven have an equally smart and benevolent identical twin? Inquiring scientific minds would like to know she does all that she does.
In 2012, Chayes co-founded Microsoft Research New York City; four years earlier she founded Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Mass., and today she is the
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distinguished scientist and managing director of each facil- ity, where social and mathematical researchers collaborate.
Previously, Chayes was the research area manager for Microsoft Research Redmond’s mathematics, theoretical computer science and cryptography division. And don’t think her founding instinct began recently. In 1997 when Chayes joined Microsoft, she co-founded its Theory Group, which researched theoretical computer science, math and physics.
Research is the name of her game. Interests in- clude phase transitions in discrete mathematics and comput- er science, structural and dynami- cal proper- ties of self- engineered networks,
Jennifer Chayes Distinguished scientist and managing director, Microsoft Research New York City
and algorithmic game theory. The former UCLA math professor also co-authored nearly 100 scientific papers and is a co-holder of more than 20 patents.
Chayes’ study of phase transitions in discrete mathemat- ics and theoretical computer science problems helped develop some of the fastest algorithms for problems in combinatorial optimization. She is a global expert in the modeling and analysis of random, dynamically growing graphs used to model the Internet, and other tech and social networks. Her Microsoft contributions include devel- oping methods to analyze network structure and behavior, designing auction algorithms, and designing and analyz- ing business models for the online world.
The No. 1 student in her class at Wesleyan University, the daughter of immigrants from Iran earned a B.A. in biology and physics, and received her Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Princeton University.
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