| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:company 
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                                | gptkbp:acquiredBy | gptkb:Red_Hat gptkb:Lotus_Development_Corporation
 gptkb:PwC_Consulting
 
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                                | gptkbp:CEO | gptkb:Ginni_Rometty gptkb:Arvind_Krishna
 gptkb:Louis_V._Gerstner_Jr.
 gptkb:Thomas_J._Watson
 gptkb:Thomas_J._Watson_Jr.
 
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                                | gptkbp:founded | gptkb:Computing-Tabulating-Recording_Company 
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                                | gptkbp:foundedYear | 1911 
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                                | gptkbp:founder | gptkb:Charles_Ranlett_Flint 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | gptkb:International_Business_Machines_Corporation 
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                                | gptkbp:headquartersLocation | gptkb:Armonk,_New_York,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:industry | gptkb:personal_computer gptkb:software
 Information technology
 Consulting
 
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                                | gptkbp:listedOn | gptkb:New_York_Stock_Exchange 
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                                | gptkbp:notableContributor | Development of the SABRE airline reservation system Development of artificial intelligence (Watson)
 Development of quantum computing research
 Development of the Deep Blue chess computer
 Development of the FORTRAN programming language
 Development of the IBM PC
 Development of the SQL language
 Development of the Selectric typewriter
 Development of the System/360 architecture
 Development of the Universal Product Code (UPC)
 Development of the Watson AI system
 Development of the Winchester hard disk drive
 Development of the first ATM
 Development of the floppy disk
 Development of the magnetic stripe card
 Development of the mainframe computer
 Development of the personal computer
 Development of the punched card tabulating machine
 Development of the relational database model
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEmployee | gptkb:Don_Estridge gptkb:Edgar_F._Codd
 gptkb:Frances_E._Allen
 gptkb:John_Backus
 gptkb:Thomas_J._Watson
 gptkb:Mark_Dean
 gptkb:Herman_Hollerith
 gptkb:Thomas_J._Watson_Jr.
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableEvent | Development of FORTRAN programming language Development of magnetic stripe card
 Development of the first hard disk drive
 Development of the relational database
 Invention of the floppy disk
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableInvention | gptkb:Dynamic_Random_Access_Memory_(DRAM) gptkb:Magnetic_stripe_card
 gptkb:UPC_barcode
 SQL
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableProduct | gptkb:IBM_PC gptkb:IBM_System/360
 gptkb:IBM_mainframe
 gptkb:Watson_(AI)
 
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                                | gptkbp:numberOfEmployees | ~350,000 (historical peak) 
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                                | gptkbp:renamed | gptkb:International_Business_Machines 
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                                | gptkbp:stockSymbol | gptkb:IBM 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Binghamton,_New_York 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | IBM (historical) 
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