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100 anni di IBM - Corporate Service Corps

Corporate Service Corps

 

The IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program was launched in 2008 to create leadership development opportunities for IBMers while delivering expertise-based service for the communities and organizations in emerging markets.

 

To date 1000 IBMers have participated in CSC projects that tackle issues from local economic development, entrepreneurship, transportation and education, to government services, healthcare and disaster recovery.

 

Corporate Service Corps teams now serve in over twenty countries around the world.

 

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100 anni di IBM - The IBM Punched Card

The IBM Punched Card

 

From the beginning of tabulation, stiff rectangular cards punched with holes became the way data was recorded and stored.

As IBM grew to dominate data processing by the 1920s, its cards—which only worked on IBM machines and vice-versa—became the global industry standard.

In 1928, IBM improved on the cards’ design so more data could be stored on a single card.

From the 1950s through about 1970, IBM punched cards were the primary way corporations and governments stored and accessed information, making the cards the most durable, successful data storage medium since the book.

 

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100 anni di IBM - The First Corporate Pure Science Research Laboratory

 

The First Corporate Pure Science Research Laboratory

 

“Think” was at the core of Watson’s being.

 

In 1944, he established the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University, the first corporate laboratory dedicated to pure scientific research.

There, a handful of scientists used machines previously dedicated to accounting to investigate everything from atomic fission to the orbit of the moon.

Embedding IBM within a university helped to develop a diverse new field of thinkers.

 

Today, eight IBM labs work with government and university research labs worldwide.

 

This new model of “collaboratories” allows the company to stretch its budget and access some of the best minds on the planet.

 

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100 anni di IBM - Dram

DRAM

The Invention of On-Demand Data

 

In the mid-1960s, IBM researcher Bob Dennard developed the world’s first one-transistor memory, calling it “dynamic random access memory,” or DRAM.

Finally, mainframes could be outfitted with short-term memory to act as a buffer to the data stored on disk drives.

The memory chips would hold information the computer was working on right then, so it could go back to the disk drive only when it needed something new.

This vastly sped up the process of accessing and using stored information.

DRAM instantly made computer memory smaller, denser and cheaper, all while requiring less power.

 

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100 anni di IBM - Automated Test Scoring

Automated Test Scoring

 

IBM pioneered the measurement of academic performance with 1937’s IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine.

This machine was able to score tests in less time than it took to manually mark the answer sheet, and was many times more accurate.

Its innovative pencil-mark sensing technology gave rise to the ubiquitous phrase, “Please completely fill in the oval.”

The innovation came into use just prior to World War II, when the government relied on the machine to process and place large numbers of applicants into jobs.

 

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100 anni di IBM - Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Scanning Tunneling Microscope

 

The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) revolutionized our ability to manipulate solid surfaces the size of atoms.

Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer of IBM’s Zurich Research Center were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the STM.

And the STM, in turn, has led to other discoveries on a “nano” scale, playing an essential role in the blossoming of nanotechnology.

It was vital in the 1990s discovery of fullerenes, which led to the development of the carbon nanotube.

The Nobel committee said the invention opened up “entirely new fields... for the study of the structure of matter.”

 

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100 anni di IBM - System 360

System 360

From Computers to Computer Systems

 

Few products in history have had the massive impact that the IBM System/360 has had—on technology, on the way the world works, or on the organization that created them.

The System/360 ushered in the era of computer compatibility—for the first time allowing models across a product line, and even from other companies, to work with each other.

It marked a turning point in the emerging field of information science.

After System/360, the industry no longer talked about automating particular tasks with “computers.”

Now, technology providers talked about managing complex processes through “computer systems.”

 

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Il magico mondo dei bambini - 2

... Alice in una pizzeria take away mentre addenta una pizza margherita mentre dei ragazzi di fianco fanno un po' di casino e dicono parole non proprio ripetibili...

Papi, hanno detto mutanda.
Vero che non si dice mutanda? Nenache patatina e neanche pisellino.
Vuol dire che sono dei monelli....
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Non mi stupire che sono loro i monelli che scrivono sui muri...

Il magico mondo dei bambini - 1

... Alice prima di addormentarsi ...

Papi, un giorno fai le ferie?
Così faccio le ferie anche io e poi facciamo i puzzle delle principesse, il memory e quelle robe lì....

100 anni di IBM - The Optimization of Global Railways

The Optimization of Global Railways

 

IBM’s first customer in Italy, the Italian state-owned Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian Railways) turned to IBM in 1928 to automate its administrative processes.

The result was an inventory of spare parts that drastically reduced waste and statistical traffic analysis that helped to schedule and allocate trains.

Italian Railways was one of the first organizations to fully exploit the advantages of IBM’s large-scale, large-volume data management capabilities.

IBM’s work there led to railway engagements in India, the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Guatemala, Hungary, Mexico, Poland and Yugoslavia.

 

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