Robert High

Rob retired in 2023, after 42 years at IBM. He is currently doing independent freelancing. Prior to his retirement, Rob was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for IBM's Edge Computing and Networking business. He had architecture and technical strategy responsibility for offerings that will enable a new generation of edge computing -- where work is placed close to where data is produced and actions are performed -- and enterprise networking for connecting edge locations. Prior to that assignment, he was the CTO for IBM Watson, responsible for setting the technical strategy and vision for IBM's leadership in AI computing. High is recognized as a global technical leader, author and evangelist, and was named an IBM Fellow in 2008 for his pioneering work in the field of SOA and for his leadership on WebSphere.

Rob co-authored "Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0" in 2002, "Cognitive Computing with IBM Watson" with Tanmay Bakshi in 2019, and most recently, "Real-World Edge Computing" with Sanjay Gupta. Since his retirement, beside writing this recent book on Edge computing, Rob has focused most of his attention on photography, music, and wood-working.