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best way to break down IBM i analyze how they have met s compu;ng challenges during dierent ;me periods. This presenta;on is going to show the following periods of ;me and what products/services they oered: EARLY HISTORY OF IBM (1930 1979) Electric Accoun;ng Machine Automa;c Sequence Controlled Calculator IBM 7090, fully transistorized mainframes 1980s 2005 (PERSONAL COMPUTERS, DOT COM BOOM) Birth of the IBM Personal Computer or PC Improvements in mainframes eServers Patent Growth IBM 2005 PRESENT & FUTURE Data/Analy;c Research So`ware Solu;ons

EARLY HISTORY OF IBM (1930 1979)

IBM Automa+c Sequence Controlled Calculator

IBM Automa+c Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), called the Mark I

The Mark I had 60 sets of 24 switches for manual data entry and could store 72 numbers, each 23 decimal digits long. It could do three addi;ons or subtrac;ons in a second. A mul;plica;on took six seconds, a division took 15.3 seconds, and a logarithm or a trigonometric func;on took over one minute. The Mark I read its instruc;ons from a 24 channel punched paper tape and executed the current instruc;on and then read in the next one. It had no condi;onal branch instruc;on. This meant that complex programs had to be physically long. A loop was accomplished by joining the end of the paper tape containing the program back to the beginning of the tape (literally crea;ng a loop). This separa;on of data and instruc;ons is known as the Harvard architecture

IBM 7090 Mainframe (fully transistorized mainframe)

 The IBM 7090 was a second-genera;on transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers and was designed for "large-scale scien;c and technological applica;ons". The 7090 was the third member of the IBM 700/7000 series scien;c computers. The rst 7090 installa;on was in November 1959. In 1960, a typical system sold for $2,900,000 or could be rented for $63,500 a month. The 7090 used a 36-bit word length, with an address- space of 32K (32,768) words. It operated with a basic memory cycle of 2.18 s, using the IBM 7302 Core Storage core memory technology from the IBM 7030 (Stretch) project.

IBM PC (Personal Computer)

 The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compa;ble hardware plakorm. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981. It was created by a team of engineers and designers under the direc;on of Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division in Boca Raton, Florida. The IBM PC Conver;ble, released April 3, 1986, was

IBM's rst laptop computer and was also the rst IBM computer to u;lize the 3.5" oppy disk which went on to become the standard. It u;lized an Intel 80c88 CPU (a CMOS version of the Intel 8088) running at 4.77 MHz, 256 kB of RAM (expandable to 640 kB), dual 720 kB 3.5" oppy drives, and a monochrome CGA-compa;ble LCD screen at a price of $2,000. It weighed 13 pounds (5.8 kg) and featured a built-in carrying handle.

eServer Mainframes (much improved mainframes)

IBM Watson

 Watson is an ar;cial intelligence computer system capable of answering ques;ons posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal inves;gator David Ferrucci. Watson was named a`er IBM's rst president, Thomas J. Watson. In 2011, as a test of its abili;es, Watson competed on the quiz show Jeopardy!, in the show's only human-versus- machine match-up to date. In a two-game, combined-point match, broadcast in three Jeopardy! episodes February 14 16, Watson beat Brad Rurer, the biggest all-;me money winner on Jeopardy!, and Ken Jennings, the record holder for the longest championship streak (74 wins). Watson received the rst prize of $1 million, while Ken Jennings and Brad Rurer received $300,000 and $200,000, respec;vely. Jennings and Rurer pledged to donate half their winnings to charity, while IBM divided Watson's winnings between two chari;es.

 In Sept. 2011, IBM and Wellpoint, a major healthcare solu;ons provider in United States announced a partnership to u;lize Watson's data crunching capability to help suggest treatment op;ons and diagnoses to doctors.

Commercializa+on

Just the same way Watson analyzed massive data in Jeopardy! to reach a set of hypotheses and list down couple of most likely outcomes, it could help Doctors in diagnosing pa;ents. Watson could analyze the pa;ent's specic symptoms, medical history, hereditary history (as provided to it), and synthesize that data along with the mass of all unstructured and structured medical informa;on in the world including (but not limited to) medical records of similar situa;ons available to it. Watson uses this informa;on in addi;on to the wealth of fundamental medical knowledge available in the form of all published medical books and ar;cles fed into Watson. IBM had made it clear that Watson did not intend to replace doctors, but assist them to avoid medical errors and sharpen medical diagnosis with the help of its advanced analy;cs technology. IBM intends to use Watson in other informa;on intensive elds as well, like telecom, nancial services, government etc.

So where can IBM come from here? I personally feel this has poten;al to be $300 stock. I dont like to forecast numbers like this ever but I really do believe in Watson. Here is a chart I found today showing where we might poten;ally go if the trend con;nues: