Millennium Magazine_5th Ed

335 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine A s a teenager, Joefon Jann was a math whiz and always achieved at the top of her class. Having played the piano in high school, she saw the connections between piano and digital computers, and dreamt of working in the best computer company in the world. With a full scholarship, she received a BA in mathematics from Wellesley College under the MIT-Wellesley cross registration program, an MA in mathematics from the City University of New York and an MS in computer science from Columbia University. For more than 30 years, Ms. Jann has been working as a computer scientist at the prestigious IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, and has achieved the highest technical rank as a distinguished engineer. She has more than 40 patents, many cited publications, authored the preface to a book on AIX Performance and was the main systems person of the Deep Blue Computer that won the famous chess match over a human (Kasparov). She has greatly contributed to IBM’s Unix OS and HPC, making them highly available, secure, scalable and performant. Her invention of DLPAR (Dynamic Logical PARtitioning) is widely used and is featured in the Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Ms. Jann says it takes passion, patience and perseverance to make it to the top of her industry. Over the years, Ms. Jann has worked for IBM in various positions including technical member of the Mathematical Analysis & Computation Center, systems engineer specialist at the NY Banking Branch Office and systems and APL programmer at ISTG headquarters. Outside of IBM, she was a technical member of the Network Analysis Corporation and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Lehman College. In a profession dominated by men, Ms. Jann co-founded a group in IBM to help technical women advance in the field. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers and a member of ACM & SWE. Ms. Jann loves to constantly use her knowledge to make the world a better place, and she thanks IBM for providing her such a diverse environment to work in and conduct research. JOEFON JANN COMPUTER SCIENTIST IBM Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY TECHNOLOGY