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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. Patents?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    That must make them evil!

  2. Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank you IBM for helping the nazis burning so many jews.
    Happy Birthday

  3. Did you vote for Bush? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Speaking of Nazi supporters, check this out.