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IBM - International Business Machines - celebrates its 100th birthday this year.The company's earlier name was Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company as it was primarily focused on building scales, time-recording devices and tabular machines.The visionary CEO, Mr Watson who lead the company from 1914 to 1956 changes the name to IBM in 1924. Afterwards the story of IBM is truly international. From punch cards to s/360,from tabulators to teraflops,IBM  dominated the entire software and hardware industry of the world till 1990s.Almost all hardware products known to us from the computer industry were innovated by IBM - electric tabulators, typewriters, DRAM, hard disk drives, bar codes, magnetic-stripe cards- the list is endless.

IBM has also played a significant role in software, contributing to the FORTRAN, COBOL, and SQL programming languages.The entire computer world learned software and hardware,and came out from the infantry stages with the help of IBM systems like System/360 of the 1960s and AS/400s of the 1980s. The entire social security system of USA was built by IBM.It has played a leading role in transforming business, science and society.It is an indisputable fact that IBM has made this planet a better place to live in. Hands off to IBM.

Here is a wonderful video to know more about how IBM transformed the world.

As part of their 100 years of innovation and business optimization, IBM released a book, “Making the World Work Better: The Ideas that Shaped a Century and a Company.” Also the company debuted a new film “Wild Ducks.”