IBM can be considered as a big family of employees - let's see some interesting "family members", innovations, people and values. Let's try to group related profiles together, and group users who wish to collaborate on those profiles.

the beginning

June 16, 1911: Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) merged by three 19th-century companies
—the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Company of America. 1914:Thomas J. Watson, Sr. joins CTR 1924: the company’s name changes to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). From the beginning, IBM defines itself by forward-thinking culture and management practices grounded in core values.

some inventions

1967: IBM researcher Benoit Mandelbrot conceives fractal geometry – the concept that seemingly irregular shapes can have identical structure at all scales. This new geometry makes it possible to mathematically describe the kinds of irregularities existing in nature. The concept greatly impacts the fields of engineering, economics, metallurgy, art, health sciences, and computer graphics and animation

dr. Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. He was the founder of The Tabulating Machine Company that was consolidated in 1911 with three other companies to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, later renamed IBM. Hollerith is regarded as one of the seminal figures in the development of data processing. His invention of the punched card tabulating machine marks the beginning of the era of semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concept dominated that landscape for nearly a century.

1953: Thomas J. Watson, Jr. publishes the company's first written equal opportunity policy letter: