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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.
Three locations had opened by mid-1981, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and San Francisco. [3] By 1986, there were 81 locations, 13 of which were in California. In April of that year, IBM sold all their stores to Nynex , [ 6 ] a company that had spun off from the breakup of AT&T in 1984. [ 7 ]
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International Business Machines Corporation 1972–current logo, by Paul Rand IBM CHQ in Armonk, New York, in 2014 Trade name IBM Formerly Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (1911–1924) Company type Public Traded as NYSE: IBM DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component ISIN ISIN: US4592001014 Industry Information technology Predecessors Bundy Manufacturing Company Computing Scale ...
The building is part of a 12-acre (4.9 ha) complex built as Occidental Center, and now known as South Park Center. In the 1960s, 70s and 80s there was a restaurant at the top of the building—The Tower—that served award-winning French cuisine. [5]
IBM's programs range from technical education for teens at brick-and-mortar public schools and universities, and extend to paid, on-site IBM internships and apprenticeships. The company's skills and education programs also pair IBM mentorships with learners, and provide no-charge, customizable online curricula to aspiring professionals.
Wells Fargo Tower (Tower I), at 220 m (720 ft) it is the tallest building of the complex. It has 54 floors and it is the 8th tallest building in Los Angeles, and the 92nd-tallest building in the United States. When it opened in 1983, it was known as the Crocker Tower, named after San Francisco-based Crocker National Bank.
The building's architect Albert C. Martin, Sr., also designed the Million Dollar Theater and Los Angeles City Hall. The May Company Building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. [2] The building was operated as a May Company department store from 1939 until the store's closure in 1992, when May merged with J. W. Robinson's to form ...