Stephen Boyer

Stephen Boyer is a researcher in the interdisciplinary space of chemistry and computer science. At IBM Research he pioneered the use of computers to automatically curate scientific literature and patents, expanding for the scientific community their understanding and utility of published information in medicine, the physical sciences and intellectual property.

Dr. Boyer’s early work as a synthetic chemist in the pharmaceutical sector provided the foundation for both his insight into molecular structure–property relationships and his appreciation for accessible and cross reference-able molecular databases.

He was instrumental in launching one of the world’s first public patent websites - the IBM Patent Server (now Delphion of Thomson Reuters) - impacting both the scientific and intellectual property (IP) communities.  He has served as an advisor to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in the creation of WIPO-Net, a United Nations initiative to provide IP resources openly to international communities inclusive of third-world countries.

More recently, Dr. Boyer initiated a collaboration of IBM Research, pharmaceutical industry leaders and international governmental organizations to explore his vision of enhanced computer curation of scientific information.