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Last summer, Le Goues made the 25-minute drive each day from her home in Cortlandt Manor, NY to a research lab in Hawthorne, NY, where she worked from nine to five as a programmer for International Business Machines (IBM). IBM is one of several producers of personal computers (PCs) that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. These Windows PCs are the main competition for Macs...
...only was Le Goues a summer employee of IBM, but she was born and raised in a family of IBM insiders...
However, it was the actions of a fellow IBM employee that finally convinced Le Goues to make the shift last summer...
...recent high-profile examples: Chinese computer giant Lenovo three months ago announced that American Stephen Ward, a senior vice president at IBM, would become its new CEO as part of its acquisition of IBM's PC-manufacturing business. When the deal is complete, Ward, a 26-year IBM veteran, will run Lenovo from his headquarters outside New York City, far from Lenovo's home base in Beijing. In September, Acer, Taiwan's best-known computer maker, tapped Italian Gianfranco Lanci to be its president. Lanci earned the post after spearheading a major turnaround of Acer's business in Western Europe...
...RETIRED. GARRY KASPAROV, 42, the world's top-ranked chess player since winning his first championship in 1985; in Moscow. A fierce, innovative competitor, Kasparov's victories were so numerous that his few losses were better known-like his 1997 defeat by a 1.2-ton IBM computer, Deeper Blue. "I am a man of big goals," the Russian grand master said upon his retirement, "but I no longer see any real goal in the world of chess." An outspoken opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kasparov said he would now spend more time focusing on politics...