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The roots of today's IBM Research began with the 1945 opening of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. [4] This was the first IBM laboratory devoted to pure science and later expanded into additional IBM Research locations in Westchester County, New York, starting in the 1950s, [5] [6] including the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1961.
The IBM Des Plaines team tried to add support for popular non-IBM terminals like the ASCII Teletype Model 33 ASR, but the small low-budget software development team could not afford the $100-per-month hardware to test it. IBM executives incorrectly felt that the future would be like the past, with batch processing using traditional punch cards.
Officially formed in late 2021, Kyndryl was created from the spin-off of IBM's infrastructure services, [4] [5] and comprises the bulk of the former IBM Global Technology Services. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] At year-end 2020, the spin-off had a portfolio of around 4,400 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100.
In the U.S., directory assistance for companies with toll-free "800 numbers" (with area codes 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, and 888) was available from toll-free directory assistance, reachable by dialing 1-800-555-1212, for many decades until it was discontinued in 2020. [citation needed]
In 2015, IBM announced three major acquisitions: Merge Healthcare for $1 billion, [83] data storage vendor Cleversafe, and all digital assets from The Weather Company, including Weather.com and The Weather Channel mobile app. [84] [85] Also that year, IBM employees created the film A Boy and His Atom, which was the first molecule movie to tell ...
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In August 2008, CIC housed 170 companies, and was recognized in a Boston Globe feature article. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visited Cambridge Innovation Center in January 2009. [7] As of July 2013, CIC had grown to over 500 companies. [8] In May 2013, CIC announced its first expansion outside of Massachusetts.
Costco partners with Thrive Living to build an 800-unit apartment over a new store in L.A., using pre-fab modules to address the city's housing crisis.