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, approximately 4500 applications were received for less than 100 US positions. IBM redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Harvard Square, May 2000 Cambridge is a city in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Typically, three "technical" interns and one "business" intern (usually an MBA student) will be placed together to form a team to work on an emerging business opportunity, typically with cutting edge technology; most teams will file for one or more patents as a result of their work. The teams are assembled based on the skills and experience of the participants, and work on project ideas that come from IBM's various groups (SWG and STG being the most common). Wall Street, Manhattan is the location of the New York Stock Exchange and is often used as a symbol for the world of business. ... Cutting edge is a term used to describe the creations of the small number of persons or groups who are at the frontier of progress in a field, especially science. ... For other uses, see Patent (disambiguation). ... IBM redirects here. ...

Past Projects

Some past Extreme Blue projects include Peridot, a tool to locate and repair broken links in large web sites and intranets, and Blue Octane, a technology for location-based services which was later developed into OnStar. Peridot is an IBM project developed by the ExtremeBlue internship program to check web sites for broken links and assist in updating them. ... OnStar is a subscription-based communications, monitoring and tracking service provided by General Motors. ...

For Summer 2006, some projects include:

• MyDNA
  • Dr. Kenneth Baker
  • Jerry Hong
  • Faheem Hussain
  • Ryan Brissette

• CIMplify
  • Bernice Chen
  • David Dryjanski
  • Julia H Grace
  • Yongshin Yu

• Cubes-To-Go
  • Meshkat Farrokhzadi
  • Brigette Lau
  • Christopher Testa
  • Bryan C Vann

• Discovery
  • Mark Bailey
  • Jeff Chen
  • Paul G Nepywoda
  • Tracy H Olsen

• Infinity
  • Leonard Lee
  • Eva Y Shon
  • Yong Yao
  • Ian S Yap

• MedLink
  • Matthew Davis
  • Kelvin X Jiang
  • Melih Onvural
  • Ivan Oprencak

• Phoenix
  • Angela F Reese
  • Ravishankar Sathyam
  • Jedd Weise
  • Anderson E Wolfe

For Summer 2007, some projects include:

• info 2.x
  • Jerry Hong
  • Eric Larsen
  • Jichao Qian
  • Edward Shelton

• SurReal
  • Nalini Kartha
  • Craig Young

• Archimedes
  • Adam Bossy
  • Adam Derewecki
  • Kit Chan
  • Yevgeny Kolovyansky

• Galileo
  • Alisa Neeman
  • Emil Nunez
  • Nathan Williams
  • Steve Davis

• Harmony Rx
  • Adelein Rodriguez
  • Bryan Boyd
  • Jaime Atiles
  • Raghu Havaldar

• Sasquatch
  • Patrick Shih
  • Scott Conner
  • Tegaswini Ravindra
  • Wei Yang

Extreme Blue Labs

As of the summer of 2005, IBM labs in the following locations hosted Extreme Blue programs: Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• United States
  • Austin, Texas
  • Raleigh, North Carolina
  • San Jose, California at the Almaden Research Center
• Canada
  • Toronto
  • Ottawa
  • Montreal
• Europe
  • Dublin, Ireland
  • Böblingen, Germany
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • La Gaude, France
  • Hursley, United Kingdom
• Beijing, China
• Bangalore, India
• São Paulo, Brazil

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External links

• Official website
• IBM Extreme Blue Interns Author Multimodal Applications in XHTML+Voice (article, VoiceXML Review)
• Intern Success Story: Calista Fredericksen (intern profile, Net Impact)
• Q&A with Igor Jablokov (interview, Speech Technology Magazine)
• Students swap beach for the lab bench in IBM internship scheme (story, WhatPC? magazine)
• Building an Intern Program (NatureJobs Feature)