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GO INSIDE THE INVENTIVE MIND
Follow along as we share the passion and anecdotes of IBMers who helped send people to the moon, hatched trillions of barcodes, launched the computer industry and then even taught one to play Jeopardy! They’re just some of the innovations we’ve been working on to build a smarter planet.
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Patent No. 5319542. 2011.
Electronic catalogue.
Patent for the system that gives sellers the ability to create paperless catalogues and automate the ordering, purchasing and requisitioning of their products. Now the worldwide e-commerce norm, this innovation lets merchants tailor their offerings to customers more efficiently and gives buyers easy access to the worldwide marketplace. So everybody wins, including trees.
Big Brains. Small Films.
IBM Fellow Bernard Meyerson on pulling the plug.
It was once thought that the principles of geometry did not apply to the wild, jagged, rough surfaces of nature. But IBM Fellow Benoit Mandelbrot saw a pattern in nature. He coined the term “fractal” to describe it and Fractal Geometry was born.
You might not think -405.67 degrees Fahrenheit sounds very “hot,” but that revolutionarily high temperature for a superconductor, discovered by IBM Fellows Alex Müller and Georg Bednorz, enabled quicker computers, more efficient electricity, and even levitating trains. And it came from a ceramic compound that everyone else had dismissed.
Big Brains. Small Films.
IBM Fellow Chandu Visweswariah on the innovation checklist.
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