A century ago, three companies merged to form IBM. while many of us only know IBM for things like Watson [the computer that won on Jeopardy], IBM has worked on everything from cheese slicers to automated test scorers [those bubble sheets started at IBM] to bar code scanners to LEED certified green data centers. If there was a business innovation in the past century, IBM was probably a part of it somewhere.
More importantly to us, IBM was also one of the first tenants of the Research Triangle Park. It’s been almost 50 years since IBM announced plans for their 400 acre, 600,000 square foot facility to be built in RTP, and they have been a leader in developing the Park ever since. As we envision the RTP of the 21st Century, it would be hard to picture the Park without IBM.
For some more information, here’s IBM’s commemorative website. Better yet, take a look at this video they posted on YouTube
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