Diane Pozefsky
IBM Fellow, IBM Corporation

Diane Pozefsky is an IBM fellow in the IBM Networking Software Division and is working on a project to improve the installation and configurability of IBM products and networks.

Diane is a Yankee by birth, with an undergraduate degree in applied math from Brown University. She relocated to the south for graduate school (she earned her Ph.D. in computer science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)

Pozefsky joined IBM as an architect in Research Triangle Park, NC in 1979 and was one of the lead architects for the peer networking enhancements to Systems Networking Architecture (SNA). She was lead architect of AnyNet, the technology that allows independence of applications and networks. Pozefsky was also team leader for one of the first AnyNet products that permits customers to move their current applications to IP networks. Her two primary technical interests right now are multimedia APIs and improving the configurability of IBM products.

Pozefsky has been a member of the Technology Council of the IBM Academy of Technology for the last two and a half years. The main goal of the Academy is to increase communications within the technical community. To do this, the Academy runs workshops and studies covering both technical issues and ones that affect the technical vitality of the company. The Academy sponsors a new products workshop and each year identifies emerging technologies and topics for corporate assessments.

Pozefsky has a strong interest in education, particularly in keeping girls interested in science. As part of this interest, she co-chaired the local National Engineers' Week for IBM RTP this year. The program gives IBMers the opportunity to talk to seventh and eighth graders about engineering and encourage them to pursue a scientific career.

She and her husband, a product manager at IBM, have an 11 year-old daughter, Lauren, one dog and three cats and live in Chapel Hill.