Robert S. Sutor has been a technical leader and executive in the IT industry for over 35 years. More than two decades of that have been spent in IBM Research in New York. During his time there, he worked on and led efforts in symbolic mathematical computation, optimization, AI, blockchain, and quantum computing. He was an executive on the software side of the business in areas including emerging industry standards, software on Linux, mobile, and open source. He's a theoretical mathematician by training, has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College. He started coding when he was 15 and has used most of the programming languages that have come along.