Extreme Blue

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Extreme Blue is an IBM internship program for graduate and undergraduate students; it also serves as a recruiting opportunity for future IBM employment. Started in 1999 with one location at the Lotus site in Cambridge, MA, it has since expanded to include 13 international locations. In 2004, approximately 4500 applications were received for 200 positions.^{[citation needed]}

Typically, three "technical" interns and one "business" intern will form a team to work on an emerging business opportunity, typically with cutting edge technology; most teams will file for one or more patents as a result of their work.

[edit] Past Projects

Some past Extreme Blue projects include Peridot, a tool to locate and repair broken links in large web sites and intranets, and Blue Octane, a technology for location-based services which was later developed into OnStar.

[edit] Extreme Blue Labs

As of the summer of 2005, IBM labs in the following locations hosted Extreme Blue programs:

• United States
  • Austin, Texas
  • Raleigh, North Carolina
  • San Jose, California
• Canada
  • Toronto
  • Ottawa
  • Montreal
• Europe
  • Dublin, Ireland
  • Boeblingen, Germany
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • La Gaude, France
  • Hursley, United Kingdom
• Beijing, China
• Bangalore, India

[edit] External links

• Official website
• IBM Extreme Blue Interns Author Multimodal Applications in XHTML+Voice (article, VoiceXML Review)
• Intern Success Story: Calista Fredericksen (intern profile, Net Impact)
• Q&A with Igor Jablokov (interview, Speech Technology Magazine)
• Students swap beach for the lab bench in IBM internship scheme (story, WhatPC? magazine)
• Building an Intern Program (NatureJobs Feature)