Currently 

• Director Emeritus, IEEE Foundation
  
• EIC, IEEE Collabratec AI Community
• IEEE Life Fellow
• retired and emeritus Research Staff Member,
  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• f.mintzer@ieee.org

Education

• 1978  PhD in EECS from Princeton University
  –  thesis on Narrowband Digital Signal Processing
  –  thesis advisor Bede Liu

• 1970  BSEE from Rutgers University

Professional Recognitions

• Received the IEEE Richard M Emberson Award, 2022
  
• An IEEE Life Fellow, recognized in 1999 “for contributions to the development of digital libraries, digital watermarking and multirate signal processing.” 
• IEEE Third Millennium medal
• IEEE Signal Processing Society's Meritorious Service Award  
• member IEEE TAB Hall of Honor
• IEEE-HKN 

 
IBM Recognitions and Accomplishments

• over 25 patents
• over 50 technical publications
• a member of the IBM Academy of Technology
• twice named an IBM Master inventor

• eight IBM Invention Achievement Awards
• two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards
• one Outstanding Innovation Award
  
  

Art education kiosks at the State Hermitage Museum

Employment

2014 - today    Retired
 
1978 - 2013    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• 2005-2013  Program Director, Blue Gene Watson

         Supercomputer Center and Associate Director
         of IBM’s Deep Computing Institute -  Blue Gene
         Watson employed Top500 supercomputers,
         ranked as high at # 2 worldwide 
         -  many insightful simulations of human biology and
            new materials

• 2001 – 2005  Department Manager, Visual Technologies

       -  data visualization, 3D graphics, image processing
         - Deep Computing Visualization offering

• 1988 – 2001  Manager, Image Library Applications   

       - digital libraries, with high-quality imaging and digital 
          rights management, often for web sites of cultural
          institutions. Partners included: the Vatican Library, 
         the National Gallery of Art (USA). the Hermitage 
          Museum, and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.  
         These projects won numerous awards.

• 1982 – 1988  Manager, NCI Architectures

        - image processing methods and software for printing, 
           publishing and soft-copy display of images

• 1987 – 1982  Research Staff Member, Signal Processing

        - researched signal processing architectures, 
           applications, and algorithms


1971 - 1974   the Commonwealth Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania - an operating telephone
company

• Special Services Engineer

Talking about supercomputing at IBM's Watson Research Center.