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International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or "Big Blue"; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. more...

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The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, infrastructure services, hosting services and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

With almost 330,000 employees worldwide and revenues of US $91 billion in 2005, IBM is the largest information technology company in the world. IBM holds more patents than any other technology company. IBM has engineers and consultants in over 170 countries and IBM Research has eight laboratories worldwide. IBM employees have earned five Nobel Prizes, four Turing Awards, five National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science. As a chip maker, IBM is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders.

History

The company which became IBM was founded in 1889 as Herman Hollerith and the Tabulating Machine Company. It was incorporated as Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR)) on June 15, 1911, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1916. IBM adopted its current name in 1924.

Current projects

BlueEyes

BlueEyes is an ongoing venture that attempts to naturalize the interaction between humans and computers, enabling devices to recognize and use facial expressions and other natural input. The initial developments of this project include scroll mice and other input devices that sense the user's pulse, facial expressions, and eyelid movement.

Eclipse

Eclipse is a platform-independent, Java-based software framework. Eclipse was originally a proprietary product developed by IBM as a successor of the VisualAge family of tools. Eclipse has subsequently been released as free/open source software under the Eclipse Public License.

alphaWorks

alphaWorks is IBM's source for emerging software technologies. These technologies include:

Flexible Internet Evaluation Report Architecture - A highly flexible architecture for the design, display, and reporting of Internet surveys.; IBM History Flow Visualization Application - A tool for visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors.; IBM Linux on POWER Performance Simulator - A tool that provides users of Linux on Power a set of performance models for IBM's POWER processors.; Database File Archive And Restoration Management - An application for archiving and restoring hard disk files using file references stored in a database.; Policy Management for Autonomic Computing - A policy-based autonomic management infrastructure that simplifies the automation of IT and business processes.; FairUCE - A spam filter that verifies sender identity instead of filtering content.; Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) SDK - A Java SDK that supports the implementation, composition, and deployment of applications working with unstructured information.;

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