Piscataway, NJ : IEEE Computer Society, IEEE CS Press, ©2011.
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• IEEE Computer Society order number: P4611 –Title page verso.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-265) and index.
• More than a century ago Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card tabulation technology. In 1911 his enterprise became the centerpiece of a new corporation (renamed in the 1920s), International Business Machines (IBM). Over the past century IBM has transformed how we record, calculate, and process information– forever changing business, science, engineering, government, and leisure. Far more than any other firm, IBM created the IT revolution. This unique volume brings together fascinating memoirs of key IBM engineers and managers of the past 100 years–from Walter Jones, who started as a sales engineer in 1912 and rose through the ranks for three decades, to Cuthbert Hurd, James Birkenstock, Bob Evans, John Backus, Watts Humphrey, and others who led IBM to supremacy in digital computing and software. It details punch card tabulation, IBM’s entrance into computing, and the transformative IBM hardware (IBM 650, IBM 1401, System/360) and software (FORTRAN, SABRE, IMS) that changed the world. –Page 4 of cover.
• Introduction : IBM’s 100 years of leadership in information technology — Watson and me : a life at IBM : memoirs of / Walter D. Jones edited by Don Black — A large-scale, general-purpose electronic digital calculator : the SSEC / John C. McPherson, Frank E. Hamilton, and Robert R. Seeber, Jr. — Early IBM computers : edited testimony / Cuthbert C. Hurd — Pioneering : on the frontier of electronic data processing, a personal memoir / James W. Birkenstock — The IBM 650 Magnetic drum calculator / George R. Trimble — Getting Sabre off the ground / Robert V. Head — The history of Fortran I, II, and III / John Backus — System/360 : a retrospective view / Bob O. Evans — Software unbundling : a personal perspective / Watts S. Humphrey — The information management system (IMS) program product / William C. McGee — IBM timeline — IBM history : an annotated bibliography.

Subjects:

• International Business Machines Corporation — History.
• International Business Machines Corporation — History — Personal narratives.
• Computer industry — United States — History.
• Corporations — United States — History.
• FORTRAN (Computer program language) — History.
• Computer programming — History — 20th century.
• Computer programming — History — 20th century — Personal narratives.
• Operating systems (Computers) — History — 20th century.
• Calculators — History — 20th century.
• Calculators — History — Personal narratives.
• Computers — History — Personal narratives.
• Computers — History — 20th century.
• Computer engineering — History — 20th century.
• Electronic data processing — History — 20th century.
• Electronic data processing — History — Personal narratives.
• Birkenstock, James W. (James Warren), 1912-

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