Start Something BIG! Cool projects IBM offers a world of opportunity with Work on challenging unlimited challenges and endless projects in leading possibilities to start something BIG. If technology areas and hot business trends. you are creative, passionate, and Feature articles: willing to collaborate to transform the Innovative teams way customers do business, the IBM Extreme Blue alumni Intensity, passion, Extreme Blue internship experience comment on their challenge, fun, optimism is for you. Extreme Blue and no boundaries experience. characterize the Extreme The IBM Extreme Blue program is Blue diverse high designed to provide you - one of the Jason Jho performance team spirit. best students from around the world - 2001 Cambridge a memorable internship experience. Alumni Our program draws from the wealth Dynamic places of resources that only IBM can Desired laboratories Daniel Rabinovitz provide, combining challenging carefully selected in 2000 Extreme Blue projects with competitive hotbeds of technology and Alumni compensation, unparalleled technical innovation. expertise and a leading-edge work Royi Ronen and living environment. Recruiting status 2001 Haifa Alumni You will experience the fusion of European labs business and technology in this IBM’s mission challenging internship program. Now underway. You can still apply today if you are interested in applying for one of the European labs. At IBM, we strive to lead However, if you are attending school in the creation, The Netherlands in the United States, note that the development and European schedule starts and ends manufacture of the industry's most advanced New Extreme Blue Lab, Amsterdam several weeks later that may impact information technologies, / Uithoorn, Netherlands. your school schedule. including computer systems, software, Hosts of the Extreme Profiling United States labs networking systems, project for summer 2002. Settling down. We have received storage devices and thousands of resumes and are microelectronics. currently interviewing students for the 2002 program. If you applied after We translate these January 25, please note that we will advanced technologies only review your application if we in into value for our need of additional candidates with customers through our specific skills to staff our projects. professional solutions and However, if you are interested in other services businesses employment opportunities at IBM, worldwide. reference the IBM Campus Calendar. Projects are driven from Extreme Profiling: the Dutch Extreme Blue across IBM product project will touch on the subjects of Profiling and "It's completely development, services, Personalization of information and applications. redefined what and research areas. You I'm looking for in are guaranteed a Extreme Profiling is expected to provide more a job," Alyssa challenging and diverse insight in the problems encountered when trying Wolf, "It sounded summer internship to provide personalization and profiling of really cool," she said. "I heard it experience! information and applications. was a tough program and that The technology is (partly) here but the answer I'd be working isn’t. What works and what doesn’t is up to the with really smart user. This Extreme Blue project will approach the people on cutting Info Glut Problem from the ‘soft’ side: behavioral edge projects." sciences and user centered design. "For me, the Summer 2001, students were challenged with an most challenging array of projects using C++, Java™ technology, part of the Linux, XML, storage device networking, and other experience was emerging technologies sponsored by either IBM writing a Global Consulting, Research, Server Group, business plan for an open standard Software Group, Storage Systems Division, and product - and Technology Group. Business students were then getting tasked with understanding the applications in management buy conjunction with creating a comprehensive in for my business plan for the technology. business case... aside from The results of your work in the Extreme Blue labs learning to rock directly impact IBM products and technology. To climb, sailing in name a few, in 1999, an Extreme Blue team the San Francisco worked on technology that IBM used in the Web bay, and site for the Sydney Olympics. In 2000, another presenting the Extreme Blue project team worked on the SASH product to Lou Gerstner, IBM's for Linux framework, which IBM later released as CEO." open-source code for Linux on the Erica Carmel, 2000 www.gnome.org Web site. Another project team Extreme Blue intern worked on iSCSI (Internet Small Computer and Harvard System Interface), which is now being shipped in Business School an IBM IP Storage 200i appliance. In 2001, an 2001 graduate Extreme Blue project team made the news by using IBM's Websphere Telcom Server, or TelcoSphere, and Internet infrastructure development software to write a program dubbed 'old Freedom' that allows callers put in holding patterns to make other calls or enter chat sessions to try to self-serve information they are hunting. According to Scott An IBM mentor participates on each team to serve Winters, an IBM as guides and interfaces to the IBM resources at "It's definitely Extreme Blue project your disposal. Project mentors are carefully challenging, but mentor, "These are the chosen to ensure that they will be among the the work is brightest minds working foremost experts in their field. While you will be pretty amazing. on the hardest working primarily on a single project during this In comparison, problems that will program, you will have access to the diverse body talking to some change the future of of expertise and experience of all of the project of my information mentors as well as that of a larger staff of classmates, this technology". specialists and advisors. is a lot more challenging, a lot more meaningful The Dutch Extreme Blue project team will consist in the sense that of two software development interns along with an we're working on MBA, Social & Behavioral Sciences and User real business Experience intern. The IBM part will consists of issues here. various subject matter experts and 2 mentors. We're not sitting around waiting In Europe, we have about 6 project teams located on people to give across the region. Our U.S. labs will host us work. We're approximately 25 project teams during the working on real projects and real summer of 2002. challenges, and we're also getting a lot of exposure to some of the top people in the tech industry." Alan Pentz, MBA student, McCombs School of Business; University of Texas at Austin The Extreme Blue Amsterdam, Netherlands program has expanded The Uithoorn lab, located in the suburbs of "We were able to to IBM labs in Europe. Amsterdam, is one of the largest IBM sites in take a project Europe developing software solutions for from conception to release, and Check out the lab international customers. locations. we work in a phenominal lab." The lab serves as a hands-on training center Erica Carmel for future IBM employees. MBA candidate at Harvard University USA Today, July Knowledge & Content Management, Pervasive 18, 2000 Computing, e-Learning and Future Learning are just a few areas being worked on. Dynamic and booming Amsterdam, 15 kilometers away offers all that you could possibly want in cultural and social life. Böblingen, Germany Our Böblingen lab, from the "think tank in the countryside" to the High Tech Center of the future - is the best way to summarize over 40 years of development. Haifa, Israel Our Research Lab in Haifa is located in the MATAM Advanced Technology Park, at the entrance to Haifa bordered by the Carmel Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Hursley, United Kingdom Our Hursley lab is a dynamic, modern, multi- cultural site with a world-class reputation for products and services. Software developed and maintained here is critical to companies around the globe, and can be found in every area of business. Zurich, Switzerland Our Zurich lab has a strong tradition of hosting and contributing to the education of undergraduate and graduate students. This close relationship with universities together with the multicultural environment makes the Zurich Research Laboratory an ideal environment for Extreme Blue projects. Ready to start To maximize your chances of joining the Extreme something BIG? Blue internship experience, here is what we look for in our candidates. We want to build the best If you want to make a possible teams for the Extreme Blue projects, and difference in the industry, in doing so we take a look at three main factors: apply for the Extreme Blue internship experience today. The application process for Skills. This is a short program with extremely the Netherlands is simple challenging projects, so all teams are expected to - please send your hit the ground running. Recruiting in Europe resume to the following is just beginning. address: Apply today if you are [email protected] attending school in the mentioning as subject United States, note ‘EXTREME BLUE Experience. This goes hand-in-hand with skills in that the European PROJECT’. helping us judge whether this program and schedule starts and environment is a good match for you. ends several weeks later that may impact your school schedule. Enthusiasm. We are looking for people to work on projects and technologies they are passionate about, so enthusiasm is critical. We find that this is Recruiting in the often the critical factor that determines how United States is effectively an individual or team functions on a settling down. project. As with any school assignment, sport or Applications are still hobby, when you work on projects that really being accepted; interest you, you tend to work harder and more effectively on these activities, as well as enjoy the however, please note experience more. that we will only review your application if we are in need of additional candidates If you meet the criteria above, and you are with specific skills to interested in applying for this competitive staff our projects.