IBM looks back on 100 years of history, finds plenty to be proud of (video)

I did a summer internship at IBM, and the history behind the company is fascinating. One would think that a gigantic 100-year-old company would suffer from bureaucracy and eventually become antiquated and obsolete, but they remain agile enough to stay alive and even grow. Also, IBM Research is a patent machine - they patent a great number of innovations per year.

yep, IBM was granted a record 5,896 U.S. patents in 2010 Source: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33341.wss

Skip the summary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jtNUGgmd4

There is some to be less proud of too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II. However, it should be strongly noted that culpability for the use of the systems has not been established.

"We built and shipped it to 'Microsoft'" Hard to imagine something like that today.

"I was the mother of Motherboards"