Barry Robson

Barry Robson BSc(Hons) PhD DSc (IBM Distinguished Engineer), is Strategic Advisor at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, at Yorktown Heights, NY, where he played a key role in proposals leading to IBM\'s DiscoveryLink, Blue Gene protein science and Secure Health and Medical Access Network (S.H.A.M.A.N.) projects. He is active within and outside IBM in regard to studies in innovation and technical vitality at corporate and national level; he served on the Innovation Frontiers and the National Innovation Initiative and contributed to the important report “Innovate America. National Innovation Initiative Report” (Council on Competitiveness, December 2004). He is also Program Director Computational Medicine, Council Member of the Deep Computing Institute, an Organizer of the IBM Academy of Technology Study on Enabling Technologies for Information Based Medicine, and a consultant and advisor within IBM’s “On Demand Services” program. He was recently Professional Interest Communities Chair in computational biology and medicine and will continue to participate through the contemporary Chair. His scientific and medical expertise and interests at IBM are in regard to biomolecular medicine, healthcare and the digital patient record with pharmacogenomic and other data, information technology support of bio-ethics, and high dimensional clinical data mining for diagnosis, prognosis, and research