Norma B. Clayton Joseph R. Cleveland Wilmer Cooksey Jr. H.James Dallas Greg Daniels
VP Global Sourcing CIO, President Plant Manager Senior Vice President Senior Vice President
Initiative Lockheed Martin Enterprise Bowling Green & CIO Nissan North
The Boeing Company Information Systems Assembly Plant Medtronic America, Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corporation General Motors Corporation
“I’m looking at how to improve the flow is something they can do in their lives, so Dean’s awards include: member of the
of dollars we invest in technology, so we they have something real in the future to American Academy of Arts and Science
save money to the company and to our dream about.” and National Academy of Engineering,
clients,” Clayton said. “It’s about leverag- IEEE Fellow, the CCG Black Engineer
ing our spending and processes, and Mark E. Dean, Ph.D. of the Year, induction into the National
reengineering to make them leaner and IBM Fellow and Vice President Inventor’s Hall of Fame, and recipient of
better utilize our people. IBM Almaden Research Center the Ronald H. Brown American Innova-
Mark Dean was the engineer at the fore- tors Award. Dean was appointed to IBM
“We are a big company, and there is front of the computer revolution. Fellow in 1995, IBM’s highest technical
always room for improvement. When you honor, and holds more than 40 patents or
end up lean, there is a fallacy that you end Dean, an electrical engineer, holds four of patents pending.
up some place and stop. You don’t. You the original nine patents for the architec-
transform your culture so you operate ture of the original IBM PC – including Cheick Diarra
faster and are more efficient, and those the Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Chairman
improvements never stop.” bus, which permitted add-on devices like Microsoft Africa
the keyboard, disk drives, and printers Cheick Diarra, an engineer equally adept
She still takes breaks in her travels to to be connected to the motherboard. He at negotiating deep space and cyber-
return to Newark, visiting the housing went on be the chief engineer behind the space, heads Microsoft’s efforts to spread
projects near the railroad tracks, and talk- development of the first gigabyte chip, the computer technology and computer-aided
ing to kids still in school about the need IBM PC/AT, the PS/2 Model 70 and 80, education throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
to pursue and education and change their the Color Graphics Adapter, and other
lives. subsystems. Diarra, a native of Mali, graduated from
Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris,
“Black kids need to know about ordinary Dr. Mark E. Dean is an IBM Fellow France, and has a Ph.D. in mechanical
black people who come from ordinary and vice president of the IBM Almaden and aerospace engineering from Howard
beginnings, and are changing society’s Research Center in San Jose, California. University, Washington, D.C.
view about black people, and making a He oversees more than 400 scientists and
difference in the world,” Clayton said. engineers doing exploratory and applied He worked at the National Aeronautics
“If I had not had an education, I would research in various hardware, software, and Space Administration as interplan-
still be in the housing project, sitting in and services areas, including nanotechnol- etary Navigator on five major missions,
the courts, with no hope and no dreams. ogy, materials science, storage systems, and as program manager in the NASA
I pinch myself sometimes, because I can’t data management, web technologies, Mars Exploration Program, as well as first
believe this has happened to me. I go back workplace practices, and user interfaces. CEO of the African Virtual University.
to give the kids a chance to realize there
Erroll B. Davis Jr. Martin B. Davis Mark E. Dean, Ph.D. Cheick Diarra Monte E. Ford
Chancellor Corporate CIO & IBM Fellow and Vice Chairman Senior VP IT and CIO
University System of Exec. VP President Microsoft Africa American Airlines, Inc.
Georgia Wachovia Corporation IBM Almaden Research
Center
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