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Happy 60th Birthday IBM Research

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. also interesting to note by cryptoz · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is their contribution to the Nazi party by selling them computers which, unless I'm mistaken, helped them tabulate and record the deaths and methods of death of millions of people.

    oh, and DES? Eh? I wouldn't say that's a *positive* contribution..

    But who am I to complain? I'm just as grateful for IBM as the next guy, don't get me wrong. I'm just trying to point out that the even the celebratration of something so wonderful is also the celebration of some of the darker moments in the company's history.

  2. Only 29,021 patents? by Ingolfke · · 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.

  3. Re:Microchannel by should_be_linear · · 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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    839*929
  4. Re:Microchannel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I work for IBM.

    So I am really getting a kick out of most of your replies.

    Sometimes you are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.

    But trust me... you don't.

    I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about.

    This is how bad info gets passed around.

    If you don't know about the topic... don't make yourself sound like you do.

    'Cause apparently you believe anything you hear.