RALPH E. GOMORY

Ralph Gomory has been President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1989. Following his university position as Higgins Lecturer and Assistant Professor at Princeton, he joined IBM in 1959, becoming Vice President in 1973, and Senior Vice President for Science and Technology from 1985-1989. A member of both the NAS and NAE, he has received the Lanchester Prize in 1963, the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1984, the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award in 1988, and National Medal of Science in 1988. In 1990, he was named to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.