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53 unusual facts about Ibm


14th Weather Squadron

At this time, IBM electronic accounting equipment installed at the Climatic Center allowed data processing directly from punched card to tape.

1995 ATP Tour World Championships

The 1995 ATP Tour World Championships (also known for the singles event as the IBM-ATP Tour World Championship for sponsorship reasons) were tennis tournaments played on indoor carpet courts.

7 Billion Actions

IBM: As a way to celebrate their 100th anniversary, IBM is launching its Global Celebration of Service, a worldwide volunteer service initiative which calls for staff to donate their time and energy for specific social causes.

ACF2

The "2" also helped to distinguish the product from IBM's ACF/VTAM.

Anubhav Anand

This IT professional from IBM, did his education to please his parents but his passion was always films.

APAR

Authorized Program Analysis Report, in IBM nomenclature, a problem officially recognized and diagnosed by IBM's support department.

Best Selling Secrets

IBM T2x ThinkPad laptop computers were also featured as mobile workstations of choice for the characters.

Cahoot

Its business model involves a very small operational staff, with IT services initially in 2003 outsourced to IBM using their "Software on Demand" model.

CCSID

CCSID is an abbreviation used by IBM to mean "Coded Character Set Identifier".

Damastown

Companies with premises in the industrial estate include IBM and Gem Pack Foods.

Dynamic loading

IBM's strategic transaction processing system, CICS (1970s onwards) uses dynamic loading extensively both for its kernel and for normal application program loading.

Excimer laser

-- Excimer laser light is typically absorbed within under a millionth of a meter (nanometer) of tissue. * * *a millionth of a meter is a micrometer, a billionth of a meter is a nanometer. Which one is it?* * *-->In 1980–1983, Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Samuel Blum and James Wynne at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center observed the effect of the ultraviolet excimer laser on biological materials.

Giora Leshem

In addition, he studied computer operating systems at IBM.

Harold Gardner

He was a master mechanic and machinist who worked for IBM, Endicott Johnson, City of Binghamton, and Link Aviation as well as Pratt-Whitney during the Second World War, troubleshooting aircraft engines.

IBM Building, Johannesburg

The building was initially built to house the South African headquarters of IBM, but after IBM moved their headquarters to Sandton, the building is unoccupied as of 2005.

IBM railway station

As the name suggests, it is located within the confines of a large facility formerly owned entirely by IBM, a former major employer for the town of Greenock.

IBM's The Great Mind Challenge

International Business Machines (IBM), which was founded in 1896 as The Tabulating Machine Company, is a multinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, North Castle, New York, United States.

IFPS

IFPS was available for a variety of platforms, including IBM mainframes (VM/CMS), DEC VAX, various flavors of Unix, DOS-based PCs and Macintosh Computers (named "Mindsight"- running on two floppies).

Imperative programming

FORTRAN, developed by John Backus at IBM starting in 1954, was the first major programming language to remove the obstacles presented by machine code in the creation of complex programs.

INAIL Tower

It was purchased in the mid-eighties by IBM company, which faced serious problems related to aging and to the safety of the building: very high energy consumption and inadequate fire safety measures.

Independent software vendor

The companies that make the platforms, such as Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Google, Oracle, Apple, SAP and salesforce.com encourage and lend support to ISVs, often with special "business partner" programs.

InfiniBand Trade Association

The IBTA was established in 1999, and a few of its prominent members include IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Oracle, HP, and Cray.

Infoscope

The device is presently in the prototype stage and was conceived and developed by Ismail Haritaoglu at IBM's Almaden Research Center.

Insulin pump

In August 2011, an IBM researcher, Jay Radcliffe, demonstrated a security flaw in insulin pumps.

James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials

The James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society since 1975, but was only given that name following its endowment by IBM in 1999.

Klaus Darga

Klaus retired as a chess professional and became a computer programmer for IBM.

Liz Phillips

Phillips has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and her work was presented by the Cleveland Orchestra, IBM, and the World Financial Center.

Morten Andreas Meyer

In 2006 he was hired as director of the Business Consulting Services division in IBM Norway.

Mount Helen, Victoria

Mount Helen is the headquarters of Federation University Australia and the Ballarat Technology Park, a campus style office park with tenants including IBM, and a number of state government offices including the State Revenue Office, collectively employing more than 1,400 people.

MSI Barcode

There are two modulo 11 algorithms which use different repeated weighting factor patterns: the IBM algorithm which uses (2,3,4,5,6,7), and the NCR algorithm which uses (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9).

New York State Route 113

West of the interchange, NY 113 continues as a local road into the IBM Poughkeepsie main plant.

New York State Route 134

For a short distance after the interchange, NY 134 becomes four lanes as the road serves IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

Nisar Memon

Before joining the Pakistani Senate, he was the Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting (1993 & 2002), the Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs & Northern Areas and State & Frontier Regions (KANA & SAFRON) during 1993 and 2002, the Country General Manager for IBM (1989–1999) and the Chairman of the Board of Directors for ENGRO Pakistan (2001–2002).

OpenGL++

The project started as the result of a partnership between SGI, IBM and Intel (and later Digital Equipment Corporation as well) to provide a higher level API than the "bare metal" support of OpenGL, as well as being an implementation for Java3D.

Paul G. Comba

He then joined IBM as a software developer, and later as a member of the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center.

Poughkeepsie Day School

A new capital campaign in 1994, involving donations from individuals and grants from foundations, funded a move to a new location in buildings formerly owned by IBM on Boardman Road, which is the school's current location.

Program animation

On the IBM System 360 processor range, these facilities were provided by front panel switches, buttons and banks of neon lights.

Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen

Methuen worked as design engineer for Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company from 1957 to 1967, and then as computer systems engineer for IBM UK Ltd from 1968 to 1975 and for Rolls-Royce plc from 1975 to 1994.

Service Update Management Assistant

SUMA automates the retrieval of maintenance updates from IBM.

Shefayim

In 2012 IBM acquired New York- and Shefayim-based mobile application developer Worklight Ltd., founded in 2006 by Shahar Kaminitz, formerly of Amdocs.

Six-bit character code

IBM applied the terms binary-coded decimal and BCD to the variations of BCD alphamerics used in most early IBM computers, including the IBM 1620, IBM 1400 series, and non-Decimal Architecture members of the IBM 700/7000 series.

Stony Brook University Research and Development Park

CEWIT has established partnerships with IT companies including giants like IBM and Cisco Systems and formed partnerships with other leading research institutions.

Structured programming

Structured programming theorists gained a major ally in the 1970s after IBM researcher Harlan Mills applied his interpretation of structured programming theory to the development of an indexing system for the New York Times research file.

Sunday NFL Countdown

The official name is Sunday NFL Countdown presented by IBM.

TaiKoo Place

The local headquarters of IBM is also situated there, occupying the first 15 storeys.

Teoma

Many parts of Teoma's relevancy algorithm were based on the methodology IBM developed for its CLEVER project.

Thesaurus florentinus

Riccardo Dalla Negra and realised by Lapo Bertini, Silvia Brotini, Auro Pampaloni, Marco Menichetti, Lara Calosi and Arianna Sacchetti with the technological support of IBM and Eastman Kodak and the financial support of the Ministero dei Beni Culturali of Italy and Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze.

Treddy Ketcham

He was subsequently hired as a special counsel for IBM until his pension in 1984.

Ulrich Steinhilper

As a post-war IBM typewriter salesman, he was an early proponent of word processing, considered by some to have either coined the phrase or even originated the concept.

Ulrich Walter

When the German astronaut team was merged into a European Space Agency, he did not transfer, but resigned to work at IBM Germany.

UTF-EBCDIC

IBM EBCDIC-based mainframe operating systems, such as z/OS, usually use UTF-16 for complete Unicode support.

Versit Consortium

The Versit Consortium was a multivendor initiative founded by Apple Computer, AT&T, IBM and Siemens in the early 1990s in order to create Personal Data Interchange (PDI) technology, open specifications for exchanging personal data over the Internet, wired and wireless connectivity and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI).

Virtualization engine

A good example of virtualization is IBM's virtualization engine which offers a common way to address component level devices.


Amdahl

Amdahl Corporation, a manufacturer of IBM-mainframe-compatible computers

American Airlines Flight 6780

Patterson was returning from meeting Thomas J. Watson of IBM, who had just hired him for a new case on the previous day.

Barbara Keeley

Keeley's early career was with IBM, working first as a Systems Engineer and then as a Field Systems Engineering Manager.

Capability-based addressing

W. David Sincoskie, David J. Farber: SODS/OS: Distributed Operating System for the IBM Series/1.

Celestica

Celestica's Toronto headquarters were originally the location of IBM's Toronto sales and support offices, which also supported a small manufacturing unit which built metal boxes for their mainframe computers and associated support systems.

Christopher J. Date

He left IBM in 1983 and has written extensively of the relational model, in association with Hugh Darwen.

CKD

Count Key Data, a disk architecture used in IBM mainframe computers

Cluster Exploratory

"The cluster will consist of 1,600 processors, several terabytes of memory, and hundreds of terabytes of storage, along with the software, including IBM's Tivoli and open source versions of Google File System and MapReduce".

Cognos Reportnet

ReportNet is developed by Canada’s Ottawa based business intelligence (BI) and performance management solutions company Cognos (formerly Cognos Incorporated), an IBM company.

Customer engineer

Originally simply engineer, those who specialized in servicing IBM equipment in use by its customers were designated customer engineers by Tom Watson circa 1942.

David A. Bader

In November 2006, Bader was selected by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, to direct the first Center of Competence for the Cell Processor.

David Webber

He holds two US software patents on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, AT&T, GE, SAP, NEC and Dell.

Douglas Chaffee

Chaffee has also worked as head of IBM's Art Department, has done paintings for NASA, the military, the book and the gaming industry, and did the official program painting for the Trident submarine.

EABIS

EABIS was launched in 2002 by five founding companies – IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell and Unilever – and a number of Europe’s leading business schools at INSEAD with the support of the European Commission.

ECC memory

This weakness is addressed by various technologies : Chipkill(IBM), Extended ECC(Sun Microsystems), Chipspare(Hewlett Packard) or SDDC=Single Device Data Correction(Intel).

Emanuel R. Piore

In 1967, his leadership at IBM was recognized by the Industrial Research Institute when it awarded him the illustrious IRI Medal.

End-of-transmission character

The EOT character is used in legacy communications protocols by mainframe computer manufacturers such as IBM, Burroughs Corporation, and the BUNCH.

Howard H. Aiken

Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973) was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.

IBM 1442

The 1442 Model 6 attached to an IBM System/3 or IBM 1130, read 300 cpm and punched 80 columns per second.

IBM 1500

The Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) Division of the U.S. Army Signal Center and School (USASCS) at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey evaluated CAI's success in teaching basic electronics by using material presented in the tutorial mode on the IBM 1500 System, utilizing the IBM Coursewriter language, an IBM 1510 Display Console, and an IBM 1512 Image Projector.

IBM DB2 Commonstore

Part of the IBM Information Management portfolio which builds upon the DB2 database platform.

IBM Series/1

The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP.

InfiniBand

In 2009, IBM announced a December 2009 release date for their DB2 pureScale offering, a shared-disk clustering scheme (inspired by parallel sysplex for DB2 z/OS) that uses a cluster of IBM System p servers (POWER6/7) communicating with each other over an InfiniBand interconnect.

James A. Kahle

With over 20 years of experience of chip design, and about 160 patents, he has been key to defining the Power Architecture and the superscalar microprocessor designs at IBM.

Jean Calvignac

In 1998, at the IBM Laboratory in the Research Triangle Park, Calvignac and his team initiated the IBM network processor activities.

Julian day

The Modified Julian Date (MJD) was introduced by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1957 to record the orbit of Sputnik via an IBM 704 (36-bit machine) and using only 18 bits until August 7, 2576.

Lew Murphy

During this time Tucson's population almost doubled, the city annexed 63 square miles, and Learjet and IBM opened manufacturing plants.

M-Pesa

Development and second line support responsibilities were transferred to IBM in September 2009, to where most of the original Sagentia team transferred.

National champions

The risk involved with such policies is exemplified by the unsuccessful challenges to IBM’s dominance of the computer market by UK’s ICL,  France’s Bull,  and  Italy’s Olivetti during the 1970s.

Norman Longworth

He then commenced his more academic career as UNESCO-IBM Professor of Information Technology ate Southampton University on secondment from IBM, a progression which has continued to the present.

OpenAtom

OpenAtom has shown good scaling up to 20,480 processors of IBM's Blue Gene/L and 4,096 processors of Cray XT3.

Peter G. Gyarmati

After their earlier work with Ferranti, then the successor ICL, in Manchester University he joined for research to IBM from 1972 until 1981, working in Poughkeepsie, Yorktown, New York, and the Delft University, the Netherlands.

Porto Salvo

This includes several facilities maintained by the Instituto Superior Técnico, several large-scale IT facilities, Millennium BCP and the former IBM/PT-SI co-hosting data-center.

Presentation Manager

In latest versions, IBM has commissioned SciTech Software with writing the graphics drivers for the majority of the cards that don't support OS/2 officially.

R.J. Harlick

In her former career R.J. Harlick worked for major computer corporations such as IBM and DMR Group, then with her own management consultancy practice.

RadRails

During that time, the three developers worked as co-ops from the Rochester Institute of Technology at IBM Rational in Raleigh, NC.

Raymond Ameijide

Ameijide served as an illustrator a variety of clients, including Fortune, National Geographic, IBM, Pfizer, TV Guide, Chase Manhattan, Discover, Harcourt Brace and the United States Post Office (per his obituary January 12, 2000, TheJournalNews.com).

Robert Hoehl

After working at IBM as a computer programmer, he founded Burlington Data Processing (BDP) in 1969 with Richard Tarrant.

Seagate Technology

The hard disk, which used a Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM) encoding, was a hit, and was later released in a 10-megabyte version, the ST-412, with which Seagate secured a contract as a major OEM supplier for the IBM XT, IBM's first personal computer to contain a hard disk.

Sequent Computer Systems

During this period, the NUMA technology became the basis for IBM's extended X-Architecture (eXA, which could also stand for enterprise X-Architecture).

Soltis

Frank Soltis (born 1940), an American computer scientist, is IBM's Chief Scientist for the System i computers.

UTF-8

In August 1992, this proposal was circulated by an IBM X/Open representative to interested parties.

VS/9

Interactive use of VS/9 was done through terminals connected to a terminal concentrator unit, which passed control signals to and from the terminals, in a manner similar to the way IBM would provide with its IBM 3270-style terminals.