Recipient of IBM's Outstanding Innovation Award for his contributions to the IBM NetVista product, Hailpern worked on and managed various projects at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center relating to issues of concurrency and programming languages. He has also been responsible for a group of departments covering workflow, internet server performance, Internet software for K-12 education, electronic mail, and applications/middleware for handheld computers, and the IBM NetVista product.
Hailpern managed departments researching Programming Technology, Software Engineering, and Tools for Non-Programmers. He authored many publications and United States patents, along with numerous conference papers and book chapters, and received SIGPLAN's Distinguished Service Award in 1998.
