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What service did IBM provide for the Nuremberg Trials?
translation services
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What year did IBM open its first office in Bahrain?
1947
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What was the eventual name of the company that IBM operated in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Business Machines
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Thomas Watson Sr. stepped down in what year?
1952
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In 1956 the company demonstrated the first example of what?
artificial intelligence
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What computer did Arthur L. Samuel program to play checkers in 1957?
an IBM 704
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In 1957 the FORTRAN language was created, what is FORTRAN short for?
FORmula TRANslation
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In 1961 who became the president of IBM?
Albert L. Williams
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One company that IBM acquired in 2002 is?
PwC consulting
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In 2003 IBM hosted an online discussion with how many employees?
50,000 employees
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What technology did IBM use for its 2003 internet-based discussion?
Jam technology
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What did IBM use to analyze the results from the online discussion?
eClassifier
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How many employees took part in the subsequent online discussion in 2004?
52,000 employees
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IBM sold its personal computer business to what company?
Lenovo
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In what year did IBM sell its personal computer business?
2005
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What was the design for low cost data encryption named?
Secure Blue
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SPSS Inc. was acquired in what year?
2009
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This program was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Blue Gene
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IBM acquired digital assets of this company on October 28, 2015.
The Weather Company
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What will IBM use to analyze weather and make predictions?
Watson
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When did the sale of Weather Company assets close?
January 29, 2016
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The Weather Channel entered into what with IBM?
long-term licensing agreement
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Bain Capital is a holding company of which company?
The Weather Company
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IBM has how many members on its Board of Directors?
14
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What board member resigned in November 2010?
Cathie Black's
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What year did William R. Brody join the IBM Board of Directors?
'07
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Kenneth Chenault is affiliated with what company?
American Express
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Who is the most recent member to join the IBM Board of Directors?
Andrew N. Liveris
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How large of a drop in sales did IBM report for fiscal year 2013?
5% drop
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What date did IBM announce that its executives would forgo bonuses for fiscal year 2013?
January 21, 2014
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IBM committed to an expansion totaling this dollar amount in 2014?
$1.2bn
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How many new data centers did IBM commit to building?
15
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Who is the chief executive of IBM?
Virginia Rometty
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What building did Van der Rohe create for IBM?
330 North Wabash building in Chicago
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The 330 North Wabash building served as what post World War 2?
center of the company's research division
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The 330 North Wabash Building was recognized with what award?
1990 Honor Award
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IBM has towers in which cities?
Montreal, Paris, and Atlanta
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IBM has worked with architects and designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, I.M. Pei, and Van der Rohe, name one more.
Eero Saarinen
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Who was the CEO in 1914?
Thomas J. Watson
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The Quarter Century Club began in this year.
1924
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What is the name of IBM's internal magazine?
Business Machines
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In 1925 the first meeting of this group occurred.
Hundred Percent Club
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What is the Hundred Percent Club composed of?
IBM salesmen who meet their quotas
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In what year did IBM begin to provide group life insurance?
1934
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IBM created a school house in 1933, what was its name?
IBM Schoolhouse at Endicott
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IBM employees created a magazine in 1935, what was its name?
Think
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What program did IBM launch in 1942?
program to train and employ disabled people
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What year did IBM hire its first black salesman?
1946
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Who published IBM's first equal opportunity policy letter?
Thomas J. Watson, Jr
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In what year was IBM's first equal opportunity policy letter published?
1952
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In 1961 IBM's nondiscrimination policy was expanded to include what?
sex, national origin, and age
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How many inventors were honored at IBM's first Invention Award Dinner?
34
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Starting in 1963 IBM started a program by naming 8 of these.
IBM Fellows
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What date did Thomas Watson, Jr. send out a letter about IBM hiring the best people regardless of race, gender, or origin?
September 21, 1953
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IBM publicized its hiring policy to help negotiations in two states where in the U.S.?
the U.S. South
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What kind of workplaces did IBM commit to not building?
separate-but-equal
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IBM expanded their nondiscrimination policy in 1984 to include what?
sexual orientation
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In what year did IBM add sexual orientation to their nondiscrimination policy?
1984
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IBM began supporting this in 1998.
Linux
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300 Linux kernel developers work here.
the IBM Linux Technology Center
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IBM created the software framework known as?
Eclipse
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What is a notable legal case involving open source and IBM?
SCO v. IBM
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What does RDBMS refer to?
relational database management system
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IBM runs what website for software developers?
DeveloperWorks
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In 2007 what happened to developerWorks?
was inducted into the Jolt Hall of Fame
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DeveloperWorks has content about open industry standard technologies like Java and SOA, what is one other industry standard technology it has resources for?
Linux
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IBM products such as WebSphere and Rational are covered on DeveloperWorks, what other three IBM products are covered?
Lotus, Tivoli and Information Management
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The Jolt Hall of Fame inducted DeveloperWorks in what year?
2007
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What kind of processor was in the Xbox 360?
PowerPC tri-core processor
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How quickly did IBM take to create the Xbox 360 processor?
less than 24 months
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Playstation 3 featured which microprocessor?
Cell BE microprocessor
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Who helped IBM develop the Playstation 3 microprocessor?
Toshiba, and Sony
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What year did the Nintendo Wii U, partly developed by IBM, debut?
2012
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What will Open Client Offering run on?
Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X
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What is an alternative to the Office document format from Microsoft?
Open Document Format software
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What percentage of its desktop PCs does IBM plan to install Open Client on to?
5%
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Which platforms did IBM begin offering the IBM Client for Smart Work on?
Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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What web browser does the Open Document Format have compatibility with?
Mozilla Firefox
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What is the name of the IBM project that redirected $1 billion each year to increase energy efficiency?
Project Big Green
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Secure Blue was launched in what year?
2006
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What type of hardware is Secure Blue?
encryption hardware
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Who was the IBM ceo in November 2008?
Sam Palmisano
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What framework did IBM announce on March 1, 2011?
Smarter Computing framework
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What is the name of the program that IBM uses to search for new start-up companies to solve world problems?
SmartCamp
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How many SmartCamp events does IBM hold worldwide?
17
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Who has IBM partnered with to allow retail shoppers to easily donate money?
Pennies
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Charities of which nation benefit from the IBM partnership with Pennies?
UK
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What company is known for the electronic charity box?
Pennies
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What location is the birthplace of IBM?
Endicott
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How many gallons of liquid cleaning agent leaked from an IBM facility in 1979?
4,100 gallons
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How long did IBM use liquid cleaning agents for circuit board manufacturing?
more than two decades
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Starting in 1980 how many gallons of chemicals did IBM pump into the air?
78,000 gallons
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IBM was identified by what department as a major source of pollution?
Department of Environmental Conservation
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What is a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms?
energy
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In SI units, energy is measured in what measurement?
joules
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Mechanically, one joule is defined as what?
the energy transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton
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Common energy forms include what?
kinetic energy of a moving object
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In Newtonian physics, there is a universal law that says energy can be neither created nor what?
destroyed
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What law states, in part, that energy can change from one form to another?
Newtonian physics
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How can the total energy of a system be calculated?
by adding up all forms of energy in the system
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