Weekend Video Post – IBM Turns 100
100th Birth Anniversary of IBM
US technology pioneer and world’s 14th most valuable technology company IBM celebrated its 100th birthday on June 16, 2011.
IBM was founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR) on June 16, 1911 with the merger of three firms: the Tabulating Machine Co., the International Time Recording Co. and the Computing Scale Co. of America.
CTR was renamed International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in 1924.
IBM claims to hold more US patents than any other company, and five of its employees have won Nobel Prizes for Physics.
IBM has posted to the company’s official YouTube channel a video to mark the occasion that highlights some of its achievements.
IBM: One Smart Century
This video provides a quick and succinct glance into IBM’s smart innovations and achievements over the past 100 years, in 100 seconds.
If you like this short centennial video then don’t miss a series of Centennial Films released by IBM to celebrate their 100th Anniversary.
Explore our series of centennial films and learn about our most iconic achievements, meet some of the IBMers who contributed to them, and hear the stories of four IBM clients who are transforming our world today.
Wild Ducks
Celebrating visionary clients who are transforming our world.
Former IBM chairman Thomas Watson, Jr. knew how important it was to work with people who question the way things are and challenge the status quo. In fact, he even had a name for them. “Wild Ducks” is a film about four IBM clients whose questioning minds and unconventional ideas are transforming our world. See and hear their inspirational stories.
100×100
A century of achievements that have changed the world.
One hundred people each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. The chronology flows from the oldest person to the youngest, offering a whirlwind history of the company and culminating with its prospects for the future.
They Were There
Meet the people who changed the way the world works.
What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. “They Were There” is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works.
Link to watch these videos:
IBM Centennial Films
IBM has created a dedicated website to celebrate 100 years of innovation.
For more information, please visit:
IBM100
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