International Business Machines Corporation
(commonly referred to as IBM) is a multinational technology company
headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170
countries. The company originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Company (CTR) and was renamed "International Business Machines" in
1924.
IBM manufactures and markets computer
hardware, middle ware and software, and offers hosting and consulting services
in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. IBM is also a
major research organization, holding the record for most patents generated by a
business (as of 2016) for 23 consecutive years.[5] Inventions by IBM include
the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the
magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the SQL programming language,
the UPC bar code, and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).
Nicknamed Big Blue, IBM is one of 30
companies included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and one of the world's
largest employers, with (as of 2016) nearly 380,000 employees. Known as
"IBMers", IBM employees have been awarded five Nobel Prizes, six
Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology and five National Medals of
Science.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrhDaAmn5Uw
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