Jack Kuehler was IBM's president and vice chairman of the board in the early-1990s.
The following is the text of a corporate biography published in February 1993.
Jack D. Kuehler, Vice Chairman, and member of the IBM Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, the Corporate Management Board and the Management Committee, joined IBM as an associate engineer at the company's San Jose California Research Laboratory in 1958.
He advanced through various technical and managerial positions in Research, the former Advanced Systems Development Division and the former Systems Development Division. In 1967, he was appointed director of the Raleigh Communications Laboratory in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. In 1970, he became director of the San Jose and Menlo Park development laboratories.
Mr. Kuehler was appointed vice president, technical operations, when the General Products Division was formed in September 1972, and became vice president, development in 1974. In April 1977, he was named assistant group executive, systems development, of the former Data Processing Product Group.
He became president of the Systems Products Division when that division was formed in August 1978 and was elected an IBM vice president in September 1980. He was named president of the General Technology Division in November 1980 when it was formed.
He was named Information Systems and Technology Group executive in December 1981. He was elected IBM senior vice president in May 1982. He was named a member of the Corporate Management Board and the Business Operations Committee in March 1983. In February 1985, he assumed corporate executive responsibility for worldwide development and U.S. manufacturing. He was elected a member of the board of directors in January 1986, executive vice president in March 1987, and was named Vice Chairman of the Board and a member of the Executive Committee in January 1988. He was elected President in May 1989 and resumed the title of Vice Chairman in 1993.
His outside activities include being a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a trustee of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; a Fellow of the IEEE; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a member of the Board of Directors of Olin Corporation; a member of the Board of Directors of Aetna Life and Casualty Company, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Manufacturers; a member of the Board of Directors of Taligent Inc.; a member of the MIT's Visiting Committee for Sponsored Research; and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.
Mr. Kuehler holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University. In addition, he holds an honorary doctorate of science from Clarkson University and an honorary doctorate of engineering science from Santa Clara University.
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IBM巨头最失败产品曝光编辑本段回目录
IBM独创的PowerPC平台从来没有进行过大肆宣传，即使用于Apple计算机的年代。
可能记忆比较深刻的还是2003年苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯在给自家产品做广告时候说的话：“PowerPC G5正在挑战所有定律，新Power Mac G5是目前世界上最快的计算机，它就是64位急速赛车的心脏。”
乔布斯还强调：“IBM提供了最先进的处理器设计，并且这将是长期多元化合作的开始。”
PowerPC G5
事实是：苹果在2005年，抛弃了IBM，抛弃了PowerPC。IBM市场经理Jesse Parker曾经说：“三家公司谁也不想再推动PowerPC的执行了，IBM不会，摩托罗拉不会，苹果也不会。”
PowerPC项目最早是由当时担任苹果总裁兼CEO的John Sculley，IBM副总裁Jack Kuehler以及摩托罗拉半导体一位管理者构想出来的。随着PowerPC最后被推出市场，苹果的Mr.Sculley走了，IBM的Mr.Kuehler退休了。
在摩托罗拉负责Power PC项目的Phil Pompa表示：“而他们的接替者对PowerPC联盟并没有相同的热情。”
总而言之，PowerPC错过了早PC领域挑战Intel的时机，现在已经转生为Cell处理器了，用于Sony PlayStation游戏主机。
我想，为什么苹果最后抛弃了PowerPC：当在2003年的时候，苹果第一次吹嘘其双核心的Power Mac时候，我的邻居就受到广告的诱惑买了带有两颗IBM G4处理器的Power Mac塔式计算机。发热量巨大，5个风扇都不起作用，还要忍受巨大的噪音。这是我第一次全面的了解到了苹果的设计以及IBM的先进架构。
参考文献编辑本段回目录
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_kuehler.html
