On this day: Thomas J Watson, father of IBM, was born

IBM in 1874 vs. 2026: From Tabulating Machines to AI & Hybrid Cloud Powerhouse

On February 17, 1874, Thomas J. Watson Sr. was born in a modest farmhouse in Campbell, New York. That same year, the world was still decades away from the company that would bear his imprint, i.e. what we know today as IBM. The actual seeds of what became IBM were planted much later, in 1896, […] The post IBM in 1874 vs. 2026: From Tabulating Machines to AI & Hybrid Cloud Powerhouse appeared first on TechJuice.

On this day: Thomas J Watson, father of IBM, was born

On 17 February 1874, the man who would go on to found the largest industrial research organisation on the planet was born in the tiny town of Campbell, writes Eliot Wilson The town of Campbell, New York, in the Appalachian Mountains had a population of less than 2,000 in 1874. Thomas John Watson, born this day, was the fifth child and only son of a farmer and lumberman; by the time he was attending the one-room school, he was already working on …