Terrou-Bi publishes on its site commercial information to highlight its products and services in the hotel, restauration and casino industry. Terrou-Bi pays the greatest attention to the accuracy of information on its site and proceeds to its regular update. IBM also hosts the industry-wide cloud computing and mobile technologies conference InterConnect each year.
IBM was recognized as one of the Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2005, which recognized Fortune 500 companies that provided employees with excellent commuter benefits to help reduce traffic and air pollution. In 2004, concerns were raised related to IBM’s contribution in its early days to pollution in its original location in Endicott, New York. Towers occupied by IBM include 1250 René-Lévesque and One Atlantic Center .
Each year, the company also selects 1,000 IBM employees annually to award the Best of IBM Award, which includes an all-expenses-paid trip to the awards ceremony in an exotic location. In the 1880s, technologies emerged that would ultimately form the core of International Business Machines . Julius E. Pitrap patented the computing scale in 1885; Alexander Dey invented the dial recorder ; Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) patented the Electric Tabulating Machine; and Willard Bundy invented a time clock to record a worker’s arrival and departure time on a paper tape in 1889.
Defunct IBM campuses include the IBM Somers Office Complex and Tour Descartes . The company’s contributions to industrial architecture and design include works by Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, I.M. Pei and Ricardo Legorreta. Van der Rohe’s building in Chicago was recognized with the 1990 Honor Award from the National Building Museum.
IBM has been a leading proponent of the Open Source Initiative, and began supporting Linux in 1998. The company invests billions of dollars in services and software based on Linux the rumor mill reading room through the IBM Linux Technology Center, which includes over 300 Linux kernel developers. IBM’s open source involvement has not been trouble-free, however (see SCO v. IBM).