[TUHS] ATC'25 is the last ATC?

[Charles H. Sauer (he/him)]

On 5/14/2025 9:54 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 09:33:36AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> It's a lot more than that, though.  I was at IBM at that time, and at
>> IBM, right about then the bonus for getting for getting published at a
>> conference had gotten eliminated.  It was very clear that as far as
>> IBM management was concerned, conference publication didn't matter.
>> If you filed a patent, you would get paid a cash bonus.  If you submit
>> to any conference --- you wouldn't.
> 
> That's wild.  To the best of my knowledge, Sun didn't give you a bonus
> for either a paper or a patent, it was just part of the job.  I certainly
> never got a bonus for that stuff.  They did pay expenses for conferences
> but that was it.

IBM did not give bonuses for publishing when I was there (1975-1989), so 
if that stopped in 2005, it sounds like an aspect of the Gerstner era.

IBM when I was there strongly encouraged/rewarded patents, and formally 
disclosing lesser innovations. There were also significant cash awards 
for "Outstanding Innovations/Inventions," and annual corporate 
recognition events celebrating those.

Charlie
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