Thomas J. Watson

Thomas J. Watson

male, deceased (1956)
IBM, IBM employee, big blue, American, entrepreneur, Columbia University alumni…InternationalBusinessMachines, Business Person
Thomas John Watson, Sr. (February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956) was the president of International Business Machines (IBM), who oversaw that company's...

James W. Owens

male
North Carolina State University alumni, north carolina state university, FM Global Insurance Company, Director of IBM, Caterpillar Inc., Institute for International Economics…InternationalBusinessMachines
James W. Owens is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of construction and mining...
Darl McBride

Darl McBride

male, 49 years old (Salt Lake City, Utah, United States)
computer software, litigious, Business person in software, Mormon, missionary, intellectual property…InternationalBusinessMachines
Darl McBride (b. circa 1960) became the CEO of The SCO Group (formerly known as Caldera) on June 28, 2002. During his tenure, Caldera renamed...
Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl

male, 87 years old
From South Dakota, IBM Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, physicist, InternationalBusinessMachines, Amdahl Corporation
Gene Myron Amdahl (born November 16, 1922) is a Norwegian American computer architect and hi-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on...
Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

male, 78 years old
software engineer, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Harvard University alumni, InternationalBusinessMachines, Doctor of Philosophy, Turing Award
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of...
Patricia Russo

Patricia Russo

female, 56 years old
The World's 100 Most Powerful Women, From Trenton, New Jersey, chief executive, Businesswoman, Lawrence High School, American…Global Business Communications Systems, InternationalBusinessMachines
Patricia Russo (born in 1953, in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest...
Edgar F. Codd

Edgar F. Codd

male, deceased (2003)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, death by myocardial infarction, Cellular automatists, IBM, Fellow of the ACM, relational model…InternationalBusinessMachines
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was a British computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the theory of relational databases. While working for...
T. Vincent Learson

T. Vincent Learson

male, deceased (1996)
Harvard University, Ambassador at Large, from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, American, IBM…International Business Machines Corporation, InternationalBusinessMachines
Thomas Vincent Learson (September 26, 1912 - November 4, 1996) was IBM's chairman and chief executive officer from June 1971 through January 1973....
Kenneth E. Iverson

Kenneth E. Iverson

male, deceased (2004)
Programming language designer, Ph.D., computer scientist, Turing Award laureate, Harvard University alumni, Canadian…InternationalBusinessMachines
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December, 1920, Camrose, Alberta, Canada - 19 October, 2004, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a computer scientist most...
William Norris

William Norris

male, deceased (2006)
Death from Parkinson's Disease, InternationalBusinessMachines, from Nebraska, us navy, World War II, IBM
William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911 near Red Cloud, Nebraska - August 21, 2006) was the pioneering CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time...