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IBM and the World Bank first introduced financial swaps to the public in 1981, when they entered into a swap agreement. [35] IBM entered the microcomputer market in the 1980s with the IBM Personal Computer (IBM 5150), which soon became known as the PC, one of IBM's best selling products.
International Business Machines (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.
IBM Watson is a computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language. [1] It was developed as a part of IBM's DeepQA project by a research team, led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. [2] Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson. [3] [4]
Watson authorized providing Hitler's Third Reich with data processing solutions and involved IBM in cooperation with Nazi Germany throughout the 1930s and until the end of World War II, profiting from both the German and American war efforts. [4] A leading self-made industrialist, [5] he was one of the richest men of his time when he died in 1956.
After Borland released Turbo Pascal 4.0 in 1987 and changed the structure of how compiled programs behaved—which made "chained" sub-programs such as the popular game Trade Wars II and Geopolitik impossible to run—Bell switched to Turbo C, which allowed for remote shell operations [clarification needed] and easy porting of the old games and utilities written for the Pascal versions.
Watson is no mere wannabe: It won its practice round of the TV game show last month. IBM engineers designed Watson to show how computer systems can analyze and process natural language, and reach ...
IBM's subsidiary in Belgium was named Watson Belge. The director was Emile Genon, formerly of Groupe Bull, a competing punch-card firm.When the US entered the World War II in 1941, the company ownership was taken by the Nazi government and given to a custodian, H. Gabrecht, who also custodied the Netherlands subsidiary.
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