Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is a Fellow of the Initiative on the Digital Economy, of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan, of MIT Connection Science, and of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM in May of 2007 after a 37-year career with the company, where his primary focus was on innovation and technical strategy. He led a number of IBM’s companywide initiatives including the internet, supercomputing, and Linux. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger has been Adviser on Digital Strategy and Innovation at Citigroup, at HBO, and at MasterCard; Adjunct Professor at the Imperial College Business School; and guest columnist at the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal. Since 2005, he has been writing a weekly blog, irvingwb.com.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is a member of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Linux Foundation Research Advisory Board. He was co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.

Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.