IBM Research has awarded the 2007 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship to Michael Moffitt for promising research in computer science. Dr. Moffitt recently completed his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence at the University of Michigan and will spend his post-doctoral year at the IBM Austin Research Lab.
The 2007 review committee, which consists of senior researchers from the IBM Almaden, Haifa, Tokyo, Watson and Zurich labs, received more than 40 high-quality applications from around the world. The committee congratulates all of the applicants on their exciting research projects, and thanks all those who wrote letters of support.
About the Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
The 2007 Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computer Science and Computer Engineering was established in memory of Dr. Josef Raviv, the founder and director of the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory. Dr. Raviv had a distinguished research career in information theory and helped pioneer Israel's high-tech industry.
IBM has pursued major research programs in computer science and computer engineering since 1965. More than 1,200 CS/CE researchers work in IBM Research labs in six countries, pursuing topics in some two dozen computer science research areas. Last year, IBM researchers published more than 1,000 journal, conference and workshop papers on a broad range of computer science and computer engineering topics. Learn more about IBM Computer Science and IBM Electrical Engineering.
Last updated on 16 May 2007