October 10, 2003: Volume 59, Number 5

IBM research chief Paul Horn to deliver Steinmetz lecture

Paul Horn, a senior vice president and director of research, will deliver the 66th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture titled "The Future of Information Technology" on Monday, Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. in 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 U.S.

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