IBM Good Fellows Video: Chieko Asakawa

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Apr 24, 2017, 08:06 ET

ARMONK, N.Y., April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Good Fellows is a series of short films that focus on the unique and human stories of IBM (NYSE: IBM) Fellows. To be named a Fellow is to achieve the highest honor bestowed by the company to its most outstanding technical employees.

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Good Fellows is a series of short films that focus on the unique and human stories of IBM Fellows. To be named a Fellow is to achieve the highest honor bestowed by the company to its most outstanding technical employees.

Chieko Asakawa has been blind since the age of fourteen and for the past three decades has worked to further accessibility research and development. She was named IBM Fellow in 2009 and in 2013, the government of Japan awarded the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon to Chieko for outstanding contributions to accessibility research.

Today she is working with Carnegie Mellon University to find out how accessibility technologies can play a key role in the real world to help create opportunities for more people to actively participate in the society. Learn more about her NavCog project: http://bit.ly/2nNjV94

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