Cuthbert Hurd
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Cuthbert Corwin Hurd was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, who was instrumental in helping the International Business Machines Corporation develop its first general-purpose computers.
The IBM 650 was developed by the division headed by Cuthbert Hurd
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
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Thomas John Watson Jr. was an American businessman, diplomat, Army Air Forces pilot, and philanthropist. The son of IBM Corporation founder Thomas J. Watson, he was the second IBM president, the 11th
Cuthbert Hurd
…Corporation, but became a very popular product, shipping several thousand units in various models. Based on this demand, Hurd advised new company president Tom Watson, Jr. to build the first IBM commercial stored program computer, first called the Defense Calculator. It was marketed as the IBM 701 in 1952. There were 18…
c. 1980
Olive and Thomas J. Watson Jr. Pavilion at Greenwich Hospital
Watson with Jimmy Carter, January 20, 1978