User:Justin Ormont/Extreme Blue

Extreme Blue is IBM's premier internship program for both graduate and undergraduate students; it also serves as an excellent placement opportunity for future IBM employment due to the significant effort put into placement of the interns. Started in 1999 with one location at the Lotus site in Cambridge, MA, it has since expanded to include 14 international locations. In 2007, 10,000 applications were received for 92 positions in USA. In 2009, according to an Extreme Blue Manager, over 10,000 applications were received for fewer than 50 US positions.

Since its inception in 1999 the program has expanded worldwide with summer programs running in Haifa, Amsterdam, Brussels, Hursley, Dublin, Böblingen and La Gaude. Furthermore, the program is running in Beijing and Bangalore. Over 10,000 students applied for 220 positions worldwide in 1997. Extreme Blue is a company initiative that uses experienced IBM engineers, talented interns, and business managers to develop high-value technology.

The project is designed to analyze emerging business needs and the technologies that can solve them. These projects mostly involve rapid-prototyping of high-profile software and hardware projects. Entry into Extreme Blue is competitive for both interns and IBM employees.

In the 2007/8 NCWE Awards, the UK Extreme Blue program received the "Over 250 Employees - Short term placement Award".

Extreme Blue Projects
Each summer an Extreme Blue team works on a project. This is a partial list of publicly released projects.


 * AmalgamR (2009) amalgamates social information from multiple sources, including Twitter, and displays relevant and timely group-based information.
 * BreadCrumbs (2009) is an iPhone application that scans grocery food barcodes and gives consumers information such as ingredients, manufacturing history, and product recall alerts with the use of food traceability servers. [[Image:Saving_Lives_with_SMS_for_Life.jpg|right|thumb|Malaria Clinic in Tanzania helped by SMS for Life program]]
 * SMS for Life (2009) fights malaria in Africa by utilizing cell phones, texting and web mapping technology to track and manage antimalarial drugs.
 * exSEL (2007) is an end-to-end marketing tool which provides a virtual tour and allows virtual interactions with the exhibits in the IBM Solutions Experience Lab.
 * SiSi Say It Sign It (2007) converts from spoken English directly into British Sign Language which is then signed by an animated digital character or avatar.
 * IBM Peridot (2004) checks web sites for broken links and assist in updating them. IBM, and the student inventors, have two patents ( and ) on this technology.
 * GameGrid (2003) created a distributed computing MMOG based on the open-source version of ID Software's Quake 2 first-person shooter.

Internship Roles
Extreme Blue places two types of interns, technical interns and MBA interns.

Patents
One the of the primary goals of the Extreme Blue program is to act as an innovation incubator of talent, technology and busness. A number of these technology innovations end up as patent disclosures.

North America
In 2004, there were 44 Extreme Blue teams in North America. In 2002, there were 101 interns in North America from 42 schools.
 * 🇺🇸 IBM Almaden Research Center located in San Jose, California, USA (?-current)
 * 4 teams in 2009
 * 🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1999-2000?)
 * Debut location of Extreme Blue
 * Did not host EB in 2001.
 * 🇺🇸 Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (2002-current)
 * Started 2002
 * Lab Managers:
 * (2006) Jim McGrath
 * 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, USA (?-current)
 * 🇨🇦 Montreal, Canada
 * 🇨🇦 Ottawa, Canada
 * 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada

South America

 * 🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil

Asia

 * 🇨🇳 Beijing, China
 * 🇮🇳 Bangalore, India (2004-?)
 * Started in 2004 with 9 students, 2 teams.
 * 🇮🇱 IBM Haifa Research Laboratory located in Haifa, Israel

Europe

 * 🇮🇪 Dublin, Ireland
 * 🇩🇪 Böblingen, Germany
 * 3 teams in 2002
 * 🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium
 * 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * 🇳🇱 Uithoorn, Netherlands
 * 🇫🇷 La Gaude, France
 * Hursley, United Kingdom
 * 🇨🇭 Zürich, Switzerland