The IBM Century

Author: Jeffrey R. Yost
Edition:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0769546110
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society Press

The IBM Century: Creating the IT Revolution

More than a century ago Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card tabulation technology.
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In 1911 his enterprise became the centerpiece of a new corporation (renamed in the 1920s), International Business Machines (IBM). Over the past century IBM has transformed how we record, calculate, and process information -- forever changing business, science, engineering, government, and leisure. Far more than any other firm, IBM created the IT revolution. This unique volume brings together fascinating memoirs of key IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years -- from Walter Jones, who started as a sales engineer in 1912 and rose through the ranks for three decades, to Cuthbert Hurd, James Birkenstock, Bob Evans, John Backus, Watts Humphrey, and other

The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM

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Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology (History of Computing)

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Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond

In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partn

The World's Greatest Salesman: An IBM Caretaker's Perspective: Looking Back

The New York Times and Time Magazine called Thomas J. Watson Sr., the founder of IBM, the "World's Greatest Salesman." Newsweek wrote that he was a philanthropist, where "none gained more from his ben

Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company

Thomas J Watson Sr's motto for IBM was THINK, and forAmore thanAa century, that one little word worked overtime. In Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a C