Jim Dean This is Me

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1. 1. www.mediapublisher.com

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   Published on: 5/16/2006   Last Visited: 11/9/2007

   "IBM is in the business of providing highly scalable enterprise video communications solutions to our customers," said Jim Dean, director, Digital Media Solutions, IBM.

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   Published on: 3/17/2006   Last Visited: 3/17/2006

   Dean's mother, Barbara Dean, 70, is convinced that her son gets his laid-back manner from his father, James Dean.
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   James Dean, 75, is a soft-spoken man who worked as a hydroelectric plant supervisor at the Tennessee Valley Authority before retiring. Dean also inherited his love of gadgetry and building things from his father. Dean's sister, Ophelia, also is an engineer.
   
   Dean's relaxed attitude also masks his fierce determination and competitive spirit. When he was growing up in the segregated South, he didn't let obstacles get in his way of achieving his goals, his mother says.
   
   He was equally determined when he decided to attend Stanford University to get a doctorate so he could advance at IBM.
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   In 1995, three years after his return to IBM from Stanford, Dean was appointed an IBM Fellow, the first African-American at the company to receive the prestigious honor. IBM fellows are given a broad mandate to identify and pursue projects in their area of expertise.
   
   Then in 1997, Dean was named both the director of the Austin Research Laboratory and the director of advanced technology development. That same year he and Moeller were inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame for their work on the IBM PC/AT.
   
   Since then, Dean has led teams that created the first 1-gigahertz microprocessor and the development of IBM's "cellular" chip design, which influenced the development of the Blue Gene supercomputer, now one of the world's fastest.
   
   As a rare high-ranking African-American in the technology industry, Dean also tries to use his position as a pulpit to encourage minorities to pursue careers in science and engineering.
   
   In February, he spoke at a Black Family Technology Awareness Week at San Jose's W.C. Overfelt High School, where he emphasized the importance of family support for inspiring an engineering career.
   
   Family is still very important to Dean. Over the Christmas holidays Dean and his father went into the garage and worked on the Cobra.
   
   Dean's plans to use the car to collect data on a cross-country trip will possibly play a role in his research at Almaden.
   
   "The research will be in the area of search, organization and associations of all the data created from this trip," he says.
   
   Dean's "anything is possible" attitude fits right in at Almaden.
   
   "There is nothing you can say that can shock people," Dean says.

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   "IBM is in the business of providing highly scalable enterprise video communications solutions to our customers," said Jim Dean, director, Digital Media Solutions, IBM.