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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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So let’s take a moment to contemplate the origins of an iconic corporation. Birth of a Corporate Culture Slowly and steadily, Watson was creating a new corporate culture of ethics, paired with competent sales, solid technology, and a growing international perspective. And so it did.

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wong: Thanks for having me. Wong: And is that okay?

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. Just how revolutionary was that for IBM? And then convince everybody they did it.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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The product also had to attract corporate customers, although it was unclear how many of those there would be. For some corporate customers, the fact that IBM now had a personal computing product meant that these little machines were not some crazy geek-hippie fad but in fact a new class of serious computing. Department of Justice.

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The Real Story of Pixar

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This division was charged with computerizing editing, sound design and mixing, special effects, and accounting for the company's books, as if this fourth challenge would be as difficult as the other three. Here I'll pick up the story as adapted from my narrative in A Biography of the Pixel , published this month by MIT Press.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Although it’s notable that Big Tech has made a foray into the field, most of the activity isn’t coming from big corporate players. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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During the 1990s, Brooks formed a team at AeroVironment that provided support for GM’s EV programs until he too tired of the corporate routine and joined ACP in 1999. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). He recruited Rippel and Cocconi for both jobs.

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