The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship is an annual, worldwide competitive program.

IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program for 2006 will be open for nominations starting September 19 through October 31, 2005

Intent
The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students inan array of focus areas of interest to IBM and fundamental toinnovation, including:

Business value: services and software to improve business performance
    * Business analytics: business optimization, riskanalysis, legislative compliance and provenance, privacy and security
    * Business transformation and services innovation:architecture of business and processes, performance management andtransformation,
 value networks/ecosystems, and services sciences, management, and engineering (SSME)
    * Information management and analysis: informationlifecycle management, standards, storage/search/retrieval,sensor/actuator/speech/video/text services,
 text/media analytics for business intelligence, information based medicine

Infrastructure value: hardware, software and services integrated into an open computing environment
    * Deep computing: bio-informatics, distributed algorithms, visual analysis, stochastic analysis
    * Computing infrastructure:Computing infrastructure: BlueGene on demand, special clusters, new computing
 architectures, autonomic computing, grid computing, streaming data
    * Pervasive Computing:Pervasive Computing: integration of sensor and actuators, embedded computing, RFID
 applications, medical and telematics applications with IT

Exploratory Computing Technology: Power management, nano, computer-on-a-chip technology, new device structures.

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program also supports our long-standingcommitment to workforce diversity. IBM values diversity in theworkplace and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all whocontribute to that diversity.

Scope
IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded worldwide. IBM Ph.D. Fellows areawarded tuition, fees, and a stipend of $17,500 (US) for one academicyear. All IBM Ph.D. Fellows are matched with an IBM Mentor according totheir technical interests, and they are encouraged to intern at an IBMresearch or development laboratory under their Mentor's guidance. AnIBM ThinkPad is awarded during the internship. Internship assignmentsare designed to strengthen and broaden the Awardee's technicalexperience and contacts. Interns are paid by their host site and willbe subject to the prevailing terms and conditions of the internshipprogram at that site. IBM is an equal opportunity employer.

IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded annually but may compete annually tobe renewed for up to three years, based on the Award Recipient'scontinued exceptional academic standing, progress and achievement, andsustained interaction with IBM's technical community. All AwardRecipient's wishing for an award renewal must be renominated to competefor an award renewal. IBM requests that a maximum of two nominationsper department be submitted in addition to any renewal nominations.

Eligibility
Students must be nominated by a faculty member. They must be enrolledfull-time in a college or university Ph.D. program, and they shouldhave completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program atthe time of their nomination. Award Recipients will be selected basedon their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to whichtheir technical interests align with those of IBM, and their academicprogress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements fromtheir faculty advisor and department head.

Reference:
http://www.developer.ibm.com/university/scholars/fellowship/phd/