{"id":1826,"date":"2011-01-23T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:56:00","slug":"sunday-afternoon-happy-birthday-ibm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/01\/23\/sunday-afternoon-happy-birthday-ibm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon &#8211; Happy Birthday IBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re hunkered down inside for what might be the coldest night of the year.. it&#8217;s barley cleared zero today.. and we&#8217;re expecting a cold clear night tonight.. probably about -18 F. . I love it when gets like that.<\/p>\n<p>Inside it&#8217;s bright and warm.. no complaints.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this week is the IBM Centennial.. This year. my company becomes 100 years old. There&#8217;s going to be lots of fanfare around the year.. and .. I hope.. lots of reflection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/ibm\/history\/exhibits\/logo\/images\/920905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www-03.ibm.com\/ibm\/history\/exhibits\/logo\/images\/920905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are two movies that have just been released to celebrate our birthdays.. (note: I&#8217;ve got a 3 second cameo at minute 12 of the first one..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39jtNUGgmd4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This second one is longer.. .. but it has some great stories..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrhDaAmn5Uw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The company has gone through many changes in the last century.. From a company making meat slicers, to a near monopoly in computing.. almost to non-existence in the early mid 90&#8217;s to the huge global company we are today. It&#8217;s a really proud legacy for the most part.. Many &#8216;firsts&#8217; .. the first system family of computers, the first relational database, the UPC code, the first DRAM memory, the computer system for the moon landings, the first computer to beat a human chess champion, (and perhaps a Jeopardy champion.. we&#8217;ll see on Feb 14th \ud83d\ude42 .  There have been many challenges  along the way as well..    ..to be sure,  it&#8217;s not the family business it used to be.. but it&#8217;s still one of the most broad, solid and socially minded businesses on the planet. I get a great kick out of having colleagues that range from Nobel prize winning physicists  to toxicologists, to mathematicians , to business theorists.  I don&#8217;t know of a broader technical community that&#8217;s <em>ever<\/em> been aligned under one banner in the history of humanity..<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the company has been very very good to me, .. it&#8217;s the only place I&#8217;ve every really worked.. 30 years this coming August. They&#8217;ve let me work all over the world, sent me back for a PhD. and given me really cool stuff to work on. They even introduced me to Diane (Stairs of bldg 963, august 1982) .. It was my gift as a second generation IBMer.. Diane&#8217;s dad, Gabe worked at IBM for more than 30 years in Endicott. He tells us stories of singing the IBM song in the morning before work, wore a tie to work, went to the IBM Country Club, etc.<br \/>\n    I must also say I appreciate how much the company has done to take care of me since Sam&#8217;s death.. though they don&#8217;t always know what to do. It would be hard to ask for more.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong.. there are many times I&#8217;m not completely in love with my job or the company&#8230; I strive to love about  80% of what I do there. . sometimes that&#8217;s been as low as 40 %.. ..but it always turns around..  but hey.. isn&#8217;t that what a relationship is supposed to be like ?<\/p>\n<p>So.. Happy birthday IBM.. you&#8217;re looking pretty good for 100..<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite Sam.<\/p>\n<p>-jc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re hunkered down inside for what might be the coldest night of the year.. it&#8217;s barley cleared zero today.. and we&#8217;re expecting a cold clear night tonight.. probably about -18 F. . I love it when gets like that. Inside it&#8217;s bright and warm.. no complaints. One thing I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2011\/01\/23\/sunday-afternoon-happy-birthday-ibm-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday afternoon &#8211; Happy Birthday IBM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,37],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-centennial","tag-happy-birthday-ibm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}