| Type of business | Internship Program |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | 13 active, 18 total See List |
| Area served | World Wide |
| Founder(s) | Jane Harper |
| Key people | Jane Harper (Founder) Steve Dale (Lab Head) Bill Moore (Lab Head) Maria Smirnoff (Lab Head) Regina Zaliznyak (Lab Head) |
| Products | See List |
| Employees | ~100 North America Unknown Worldwide |
| Parent | IBM |
| URL | ibm.com/extremeblue |
| Current status | Active |
Extreme Blue is IBM's premier internship program for both graduate and undergraduate students; it also serves as an excellent placement opportunity for future IBM employment due to the significant effort put into placement of the interns. Started in 1999 with one location at the Lotus site in Cambridge, MA, it has since expanded to include 14 international locations. In 2007, 10,000 applications were received for 92 positions in USA.[1] In 2009, according to an Extreme Blue Manager, over 10,000 applications were received for fewer than 50 US positions.[citation needed]
Since its inception in 1999 the program has expanded worldwide with summer programs running in Haifa, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hursley, Dublin, Böblingen and La Gaude. Furthermore, the program is running in Beijing and Bangalore. Over 10,000 students applied for 220 positions worldwide in 1997. Extreme Blue is a company initiative that uses experienced IBM engineers, talented interns, and business managers to develop high-value technology.
The project is designed to analyze emerging business needs and the technologies that can solve them. These projects mostly involve rapid-prototyping of high-profile software and hardware projects. Entry into Extreme Blue is competitive for both interns and IBM employees.
In the 2007/8 NCWE Awards, the UK Extreme Blue program received the "Over 250 Employees - Short term placement Award".[2]
Extreme Blue Projects edit
Each summer an Extreme Blue team works on a project. This is a partial list of publicly released projects.
- AmalgamR (2009) amalgamates social information from multiple sources, including Twitter, and displays relevant and timely group-based information.[3]
- BreadCrumbs (2009) is an iPhone application that scans grocery food barcodes and gives consumers information such as ingredients, manufacturing history, and product recall alerts with the use of food traceability servers.[4]
Malaria Clinic in Tanzania helped by SMS for Life program - SMS for Life (2009) fights malaria in Africa by utilizing cell phones, texting and web mapping technology to track and manage antimalarial drugs.[5][6][7]
- exSEL (2007) is an end-to-end marketing tool which provides a virtual tour and allows virtual interactions with the exhibits in the IBM Solutions Experience Lab.[8]
- SiSi Say It Sign It (2007) converts from spoken English directly into British Sign Language which is then signed by an animated digital character or avatar.[9][10]
- IBM Peridot (2004) checks web sites for broken links and assist in updating them. IBM, and the student inventors, have two patents (US 7290131 and US application 20040267726) on this technology.[11][12][13][14]
- GameGrid (2003) created a distributed computing MMOG based on the open-source version of ID Software's Quake 2 first-person shooter.[15][16]
Internship Roles edit
Extreme Blue places two types of interns, technical interns and MBA interns.
Extreme Blue Technical Intern edit
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Extreme Blue MBA Intern edit
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Patents edit
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One the of the primary goals of the Extreme Blue program is to act as an innovation incubator of talent, technology and busness.[17][18] A number of these technology innovations end up as patent disclosures.
| Year | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patent Disclosures | 98[19] |
Extreme Blue Labs edit
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North America edit
In 2004, there were 44 Extreme Blue teams in North America.[20] In 2002, there were 101 interns in North America from 42 schools.[21]
IBM Almaden Research Center located in San Jose, California, USA (?-current)
- 4 teams in 2009
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA[22] (1999-2000?)
- Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (2002-current)
- Austin, Texas, USA[27] (?-current)
Montreal, Canada[28]- Ottawa, Canada
- Toronto, Canada
South America edit
Asia edit
Beijing, China
Bangalore, India (2004-?)
- Started in 2004 with 9 students, 2 teams.[29]
IBM Haifa Research Laboratory located in Haifa, Israel[30]
Europe edit
External links edit
References edit
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-NRmGMbj80 NBC on Extreme Blue Almaden, Time Mark 1:40
- ^ NCWE Awards: Extreme Blue wins 'Over 250 Employees - Short term placement Award'
- ^ Mike Cassidy (August 14, 2009). "Cassidy: Looking at the Valley through fresh eyes". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved December 4, 2009.
- ^ Richard Macmanus (October 26, 2009). "IBM Debuts Food Traceability iPhone App". The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2009.
- ^ Zachary Wilson (15 Dec 2009). "Are Your Interns Saving the World? IBM's Are". Fastcompany. Retrieved 21 Dec 2009.
- ^ "Saving Lives with SMS for Life". IBM. 14 Dec 2009. Retrieved 21 Dec 2009.
- ^ Mitch Wagner (15 Dec 2009). "SMS Project Fights Malaria In Africa". InformationWeek. Retrieved 21 Dec 2009.
- ^ http://www-01.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue/project/cool-exsel.html
- ^ "IBM Research Demonstrates Innovative 'Speech to Sign Language' Translation System". IBM. 12 Sep 2007. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ Geoff Adams-Spink (15 September 2007). "Technique links words to signing". BBC News. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/21/technology/circuits/21next.html?ex=1256011200&en=5fc9d5b9a1919fbc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland For Missing Web Pages, a Department of Lost and Found
- ^ http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/24/1226250&tid=96&tid=136&tid=95 Broken Links No More?
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3666660.stm Web tool may banish broken links
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/feeds/general/2004/09/22/generalvnunet_2004_09_22_eng-vnunet_eng-vnunet_132545_7445055346672697874.html
- ^ http://www-01.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue/project/game-grid.html
- ^ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bethenco/ibmsj06quake.pdf
- ^ Rosie Lombardi (03 Aug 2006). "Big Blue's quest for the brightest and best". IT World Canada. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
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- ^ James Watson (23 Sep 2004). "Students swap beach for the lab bench in IBM internship scheme". Computing. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050207085859/http://www.speechtechmag.com/pub/industry/10777-1.html
- ^ http://www-913.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue/bio/2002_us_interns.html
- ^ "Extreme Blue History". IBM. 2001. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
- ^ "Extreme Blue History". IBM. 2001. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
- ^ "Extreme Blue History". IBM. 2001. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
- ^ "Dynamic places". 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2002-02-22. Retrieved Oct 12, 2009.
... Raleigh, North Carolina - New ...'
- ^ "The Raleigh lab team". Retrieved 2009-10-08.
- ^ http://www-913.ibm.com/employment/us/extremeblue/location/index.html
- ^ http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/ca/en/job_3.html
- ^ Abhinav Singh. "First Extreme Blue internship programme in India". Bangalore, India: Express Computing. Archived from the original on 2004-10-18. Retrieved 2009-10-12.
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- ^ http://www-05.ibm.com/employment/be/extremeblue/student.html
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