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The suit accused IBM of allegedly providing the punched card technology that facilitated the Holocaust, and for covering up German IBM subsidiary Dehomag's activities. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In April 2001, the lawsuit was dropped after lawyers feared the suit would slow down payments from a German Holocaust fund for Holocaust survivors who had suffered ...
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the government of Adolf Hitler from the ...
The Nazis reportedly made extensive use of Hollerith punch card and accounting equipment, and IBM's majority-owned German subsidiary, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen GmbH (Dehomag), supplied them with this equipment starting in the early 1930s. The equipment was critical to Nazi efforts through ongoing censuses to categorize citizens of both ...
William Wilson Simmons (1912 – October 11, 1997) [1] was an IBM executive, who was Director of Strategic Planning for the IBM Corporation in the late 1960s. [2] He is also known as one of the pioneers of applied futures studies in the private sector.
The following is a chronological list of people who have served as chief executive officer of IBM, an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York. Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956) [1] Thomas J. Watson, Jr. (1956–1971) [1] T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973) [1] Frank T. Cary (1973–1981) [1]
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a multinational corporation specializing in computer technology and information technology consulting. Headquartered in Armonk, New York, the company originated from the amalgamation of various enterprises dedicated to automating routine business transactions, notably pioneering punched card-based data tabulating machines and time clocks.
Thomas Patrick Campbell (born 12 July 1962) [1] is the director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. . He served as the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 2009 and 2017.
Harker advanced through a series of positions at IBM to become the IBM San Jose Laboratory Director in 1972. He is best known for his leadership of the 1311 Disk File project, but he considered the 1350/1360 (Cypress) Image Storage System his most challenging assignment and the creation of the Technology and Advanced Development Group (TAD) in 1969 amongst his most important accomplishments.