Though Watson had to personally secure a loan to reshape the company’s finances, he turned it around in a matter of years and officially incorporated it as International Business Machines in 1923.

An IBM slogan that stems from the early days of the company. Thomas J. Watson, Sr., founder of IBM, began using the slogan in 1911 when he was working for the National Cash Register Company (NCR).

Thomas J. Watson (1874–1956) Thomas J. Watson was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1923 to 1956. He joined Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (CTR) as general manager in 1914 ...

IBM has been working on Watson, presumably named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., for nearly two years, the company said. The QA system can understand complex questions and answer with ...

Though his father had turned IBM into a tremendously successful company, the firm that Thomas Jr. inherited was largely a mix ... in a span of 6 years and increasing foreign investment. Watson also ...

a Harvard professor who had originally tried to team up with the Monroe Calculating Machine Company before reaching a deal with IBM President Thomas J. Watson Sr, according to IBM's website.

The company was founded by Charles Ranlett Flint and Thomas J. Watson Sr. on June 16, 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, NY.