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May 19
The Space Shuttle carries 11 IBM
ThinkPads into orbit. Combined, the
ThinkPads can process more than
half a billion instructions per second.
June 24
IBM receives the Golden Ladder
Award from We magazine for being
the “No.1 Employer in America for
People with Disabilities.”
June 16
Three IBM scientists —
Robert Dennard, Mark Dean and
Dennis Moeller — are inducted into
the National Inventors Hall of Fame,
joining the ranks of Thomas Edison,
Henry Ford, Louis Pasteur and IBM
Nobel laureates Heinrich Rohrer
and Gerd Binnig. To date, only 137
individuals have been so honored.
August 18
IBM introduces the AS/400e —
a new series of AS/400 servers
optimized to help customers take
advantage of business opportunities
on the Internet. The AS/400e can
run Java and Microsoft Windows NT
applications, provide Internet
security, and support thousands of
Lotus Domino users while running
other applications.
August 14
A survey by the National Society
of Black Engineers finds IBM the
employer most preferred.
July 22
IBM announces a $25 million
investment to establish a research
center — its eighth in the world —
in Delhi, India. The center will focus
initially on weather forecasting,
e-business and distance learning,
and will foster joint research projects
with India’s leading universities.
mars 0010919001288 - 10
IBM completes one of the most
important product transitions in
the company’s history with the
debut of a new generation of Sys-
tem/ 390 servers, all powered by
advanced microprocessors.
The microprocessor “engines”
help make the S/ 390 Parallel
Enterprise Server - Generation 4
more powerful and less costly to
produce and maintain than previ-
ous models, which used bipolar
processor technology.
june9
IBM, Telstra and Lend Lease Cor-
poration form an information tech-
nology and communications
alliance, signing Australia’s largest
information technology outsourcing
deal and establishing a new network
services company called Advantra.
As part of the agreement, IBM
Global Services Australia will take
responsibility for Telstra’s data cen-
ter operations, creating the largest
data processing center in the South-
ern Hemisphere.
july25
NASA’s Pathfinder, equipped
with IBM RS/6000 technology for
its onboard flight computer, lands
on Mars. The flight computer is
responsible for more than 100 pyro
(explosive) events, including
deploying the parachutes, inflating
the airbags, and firing the retro
rockets that allow Pathfinder to
land safely on Mars.
july4
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September 4
IBM introduces ViaVoice continuous
speech recognition technology for
Mandarin Chinese. In developing the
product, researchers identified and
classified thousands of vocal tones
and homonyms, created an algorithm
that deconstructs syllables into parts,
and developed a new language model
to transform spoken words into the
right combination drawn from 6,700
Chinese characters.
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Annual Worldwide
S/390 Capacity
Shipments
compound growth rate = + 44%