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Sperry Rand
COMPANY
Formed when Sperry Corporation merged with Remington Rand in 1955. It dropped the "Rand" part of its name in 1978, and was eventually purchased by Burroughs in 1986, becoming Unisys.
Industry:
Computer
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Seymour Cray |
Inventor |
28-Sep-1925 |
5-Oct-1996 |
Inventor of Cray supercomputers |
| Leslie R. Groves |
Military |
17-Aug-1896 |
13-Jul-1970 |
Director of the Manhattan Project |
NOTABLE EMPLOYEES
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Grace Murray Hopper |
Computer Programmer |
9-Dec-1906 |
1-Jan-1992 |
Computer programming pioneer |
EMPLOYMENT
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Eleanor Baum |
Educator |
c. 1939 |
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Dean of Engineering, Cooper Union |
| Hatim A. Tyabji |
Business |
1945 |
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CEO of VeriFone, 1986-98 |
EXTRANEOUS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| John Diebold |
Author |
8-Jun-1926 |
26-Dec-2005 |
Advocate of automation |
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