Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 12, 2005 @01:41AM from the everybody-likes-fractals dept.

HockeyPuck writes "On Tuesday, IBM Research celebrated it's 60th Birthday "IBM inventions and discoveries include the programming language Fortran (1957), magnetic storage (1955), the relational database (1970), DRAM (dynamic random access memory) cells (1962), the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) chip architecture (1980), fractals (1967), superconductivity (1987) and the Data Encryption Standard (1974). In the last 12 years, IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.""

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Only 29,021 patents? by Ingolfke · 2005-10-12 02:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

IBM has received 29,021 patents--more than any other company or individual in the world.

Yeah, I've recieved 28,973 myself. Seriously, isn't it redundant that no individual could recieve more than 29,021 patents in a 12 year period? That's averaging 6.6 patents per day.
Re:Microchannel by should_be_linear · 2005-10-12 02:25 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Don't forget On Demand Computing invented in 1942 to automate persecution of the Jews. http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

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