Posted on Thursday, June 16 2011 @ 22:46 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
On this day in 1911, IBM started as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R), a name it changed in 1924. While some of you might known IBM for its recent "Jeopardy"-playing Watson computer, IBM has a long history of innovation, from cheese slicers (yes, really) and the tech behind Social Security to the UPC bar code and the floppy disk.
These days, a 100-year run is quite the feat, especially in technology. Bernie Meyerson, IBM's vice president of innovation, attributed this longevity partly to the development of technology that contributes something to society, as well as being open to diverse and sometimes risky projects.
