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Dave began his work with the foundation in 1971 at the request of Tom Watson Jr, then CEO and Chairman of IBM. He became an advisory board member in 1977 and completed his 51 year engagement with the foundation in December 2022 as Board President.
David E. McKinney is the Vice Chairman of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Additionally, he is President of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and a trustee of the Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation.
Mr. McKinney, who earlier spent 36 years of his career at IBM, rising to its executive and global leadership, came out of a brief retirement to assume the presidency of the Metropolitan Museum in 1999.
Apr 28, 2015 · David E. McKinney Executive, Civic Leader Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) Text of citation. After a 36-year career at IBM, which included service as senior vice president and a member of the Management Committee and Corporate Management Board, David McKinney retired as president and CEO of IBM Europe in 1992.
- The Beginning of IBM
- IBM History of Business Computers
- IBM History of Personal Computers
- Outstanding IBM Electrical Engineers
On June 16, 1911, three successful 19th-century companies decided to merge, marking the beginnings of IBM history. The Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company of America joined together to incorporate and form one company, the Computing Tabulating Recording Company. In 1914, Thomas J. Wa...
IBM began designing and manufacturing calculators in the 1930s, using the technology of their own punch card processing equipment. In 1944, IBM together with Harvard University financed the invention of the Mark 1 computer, the first machine to compute long calculations automatically. By 1953, IBM was ready to completely produce their own computers...
In July 1980, Microsoft's Bill Gates agreed to create an operating system for IBM's new computer for the home consumer, which IBM released on August 12, 1981. The first IBM PCran on a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 microprocessor. IBM had now stepped into the home consumer market, sparking the computer revolution.
David Bradley joined IBM immediately upon graduation. In September 1980, David Bradley became one of the "original 12" engineers working on the IBM Personal Computer and was responsible for the ROM BIOS code.
Nov 2, 2015 · David McKinney has a long history of engagement with Brown, including serving two terms as a Brown trustee and serving as fellow emeritus of the Corporation of Brown University. He has been associated with the Watson Institute since its establishment at Brown in the early 1980s with a gift from the Watson family.
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
