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There, he held a variety of management jobs, before being elected president and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Canada, Ltd. in 1986. In January 1991, Thompson moved to the United States to become Corporate Vice President of Marketing, charged with developing IBM's strategy for entering the services business, now a $60 billion operation for IBM .
The IBM Toronto Software Lab is the largest software development laboratory in Canada and IBM's third largest software lab. Established in 1967 with 55 employees, [1] the Toronto Lab, now located in Markham has grown to employ 2,500 people. These employees develop some of IBM's middleware. [2]
Former IBM Canada Head Office Building at 3600 Steeles East. IBM Canada's head offices are currently located in Markham, Ontario and have been there since the early 1980s. The current building IBM occupies is located at 8200 Warden Avenue and shared with existing tenant IBM Toronto Software Lab in 2001.
He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and a Master of Science in the same discipline from Syracuse University in 1971. [1] [2] He joined IBM in 1967 as an engineer, but moved into management positions which led him to his most recent position.
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.
John E. Kelly III is an American executive at IBM.He has been described as the "father" of Watson, a computer system most known for competing against humans on Jeopardy! He joined IBM in 1980 and has served as the director of IBM Research.
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IBM ranked No. 38 on the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. [117] In 2014, IBM was accused of using "financial engineering" to hit its quarterly earnings targets rather than investing for the longer term. [118] [119] [120] The key trends of IBM are (as at the financial year ending December 31 ...