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19-1258: (Redirected from Rational Software Corporation ) Defunct software company [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:   "Rational Software"  –  news   · newspapers   · books   · scholar   · JSTOR ( October 2020 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) [REDACTED] Parts of this article (those related to article) need to be updated . Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( July 2023 ) Rational Software [REDACTED] Industry Application development tools Founded 1981  ( 1981 ) Founder Paul Levy and Mike Devlin Defunct February ;20, 2003  ( 2003-02-20 ) Fate Acquired by IBM Key people Mike Devlin (previous CEO) Website www .ibm .com /software /uk /rational / This article

38-4654: A Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF) . American Antiquarian Society . 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF) . American Antiquarian Society . 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved February 29, 2024 . ^ "IBM Acquires Rational Software" . External links [ edit ] Official website [REDACTED] v t e IBM History History Mergers and acquisitions PC business acquisition by Lenovo Products Hardware Current Mainframe IBM Z Power microprocessors Power Systems Storage FlashSystem DS8000 Quantum Q System One Q System Two Eagle Osprey Heron Condor Former Blue Gene Cell microprocessors PowerPC Midrange computer Personal Computer Selectric ThinkPad Other Carbon Design System Cloud Cloudant Cognos Analytics Connections Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History Fortran ILOG Information Management Software Lotus Software Mainframe operating systems Mashup Center Planning Analytics PureQuery Quantum Platform Qiskit OpenQASM Rational Software SPSS Tivoli Software Service Automation Manager Watson Watsonx Granite WebSphere Business entities Current Apptio Center for The Business of Government Consulting Promontory Kenexa International subsidiaries India Press Red Hat Research Former AdStar AIM alliance Kaleida Labs Taligent Ambra Computer Cognos EduQuest Kyndryl Lexmark Merative Microelectronics Product Center Science Research Associates Service Bureau The Weather Company ( Weather Underground ) Facilities Towers 1250 René-Lévesque , Montreal, QC One Atlantic Center , Atlanta, GA Software Labs Rome Software Lab Toronto Software Lab IBM Buildings 330 North Wabash , Chicago, IL Honolulu Seattle Facilities Thomas J. Watson Research Center Hakozaki Facility Yamato Facility Cambridge Scientific Center IBM Hursley Canada Head Office Building IBM Rochester Initiatives Academy of Technology Deep Thunder Develothon Fellow The Great Mind Challenge Linux Technology Center SkillsBuild Smarter Planet Virtual Universe Community World Community Grid Think conference Inventions Automated teller machine Cynefin framework DRAM Electronic keypunch Floppy disk Hard disk drive Magnetic stripe card Relational model Sabre airline reservation system Scanning tunneling microscope Financial swaps Universal Product Code Terminology Big Blue Commercial Processing Workload Customer engineer Globally integrated enterprise e-business Think slogan CEOs Thomas J. Watson (1914–1956) Thomas Watson Jr. (1956–1971) T. Vincent Learson (1971–1973) Frank T. Cary (1973–1981) John R. Opel (1981–1985) John Fellows Akers (1985–1993) Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (1993–2002) Samuel J. Palmisano (2002–2011) Ginni Rometty (2012–2020) Arvind Krishna (since 2020) Board of directors Thomas Buberl David Farr Alex Gorsky Michelle J. Howard Arvind Krishna Andrew Liveris Martha E. Pollack Joseph R. Swedish Peter R. Voser Other A Boy and His Atom Big Blue sports teams American football Rugby union Common Public License / IBM Public License Deep Blue Deep Thought Dynamic infrastructure GlobalFoundries GUIDE International IBM and

57-503: A hand-woven cloth to an industrial pulp. AAS undertakes special efforts to preserve printed records from this time period, as the Society maintains an on-site conservation department with various sewing, cloth, and binding materials to aid in the preservation process. Over its two-hundred-year history, the Society has had 14 formal leaders who have shaped the organization's vision, collections, and day-to-day operations. Leadership roles at

76-680: A number of them are unique. Historic materials from all fifty U.S. states, most of Canada and the British West Indies are included in the AAS repository. One of the more famous volumes held by the Society is a copy of the first book printed in America, the Bay Psalm Book . AAS has one of the largest collections of newspapers printed in America through 1876, with more than two million issues in its collection. Its collections contain

95-475: Is printing technology , especially in eighteenth-century British North America. Since Isaiah Thomas was a newspaper man himself, he collected a large number of printed materials. With regard to printing, paper making , edition setting, and reprinting, not much had changed in European technology by the eighteenth century. It was not until the late eighteenth century that paper-making material began to evolve from

114-419: Is about the software company that specializes in software architecture solutions. Not to be confused with Rational Systems . Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development . It changed its name in 1994 to Rational Software , and

133-435: Is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in the United States with a national focus. Its main building, known as Antiquarian Hall, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark in recognition of this legacy. The mission of the AAS is to collect, preserve and make available for study all printed records of what

152-428: Is now known as the United States of America. This includes materials from the first European settlement through the year 1876. The AAS offers programs on a wide variety of subjects including but not limited to Environmental History, Indigenous Peoples Studies, and American Religion for professional scholars, pre-collegiate, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, professional artists, writers, genealogists , and

171-523: The United States Air Force Academy 1977 after studying electrical engineering and computer science. He completed a M.S. in computer science at Stanford University the following year. As CEO of Rational, Devlin oversaw the acquisition of several companies, including Objectory AB (1995), and Catapulse (2001), a start-up which was funded by Rational, in conjunction with Benchmark Capital . In 2003, Rational Software

190-521: The 1650s. On the initiative of Isaiah Thomas , the AAS was founded on October 24, 1812, through an act of the Massachusetts General Court . It was the third historical society established in America, and the first to be national in its scope. Isaiah Thomas started the collection with approximately 8,000 books from his personal library. The first library building was erected in 1820 in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1853,

209-439: The AAS have historically overlapped in chronology, as different roles oversaw different aspects of the Society simultaneously. The American Antiquarian Society's membership includes scholars, writers, journalists, historians, artists, filmmakers, collectors, American presidents, and civic leaders. Notable members include the following individuals: AAS was presented with the 2013 National Humanities Medal by President Obama in

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247-538: The Society moved its collections to a larger building at the corner of Highland Street, also in Worcester. This building was later abandoned and another new building was constructed. Designed by Winslow, Bigelow & Wadsworth , the Georgian Revival building was completed in 1910 and stands on the corner of Park Avenue and Salisbury Street. There have been several additions to this building to accommodate

266-490: The United States IBM acquisitions Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles needing additional references from October 2020 All articles needing additional references Misplaced Pages articles in need of updating from July 2023 All Misplaced Pages articles in need of updating Mike Devlin (entrepreneur) Devlin graduated from

285-424: The first American women's magazine edited by a woman, The Humming Bird, or Herald of Taste . The collection also contains over 60,000 pieces of sheet music, over 300 games (including puzzles, board games, and cards), a large historical pottery collection, extensive New England diaries and personal papers, a diverse collection of photographs dating from the 1830s to the 1920s, and children's literature dating back to

304-411: The general public. The collections of the AAS contain over four million books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, graphic arts materials and manuscripts. The Society is estimated to hold copies of two-thirds of the total books known to have been printed in what is now the United States from the establishment of the first press in 1640 through the year 1820; many of these volumes are exceedingly rare and

323-500: The growing collection. The most recent addition was completed in 2019 and created room for an updated HVAC system, conservation lab, and multi-use learning lab. AAS was presented with the 2013 National Humanities Medal by President Obama in a ceremony at the White House. As part of AAS's mission as a learned society, it offers a variety of public lectures and seminars. One topic to which AAS dedicates significant academic energies

342-464: Was acquired by IBM for 2.1 billion U.S. dollars, a move that saw Devlin become general manager with IBM . He retired from the company two years later. This article about a chief executive from the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . American Antiquarian Society The American Antiquarian Society ( AAS ), located in Worcester, Massachusetts ,

361-537: Was sold for US$ 2.1 billion (equivalent to current US$ 3.48 billion) to IBM on February 21, 2003. See also [ edit ] Rational Automation Framework IBM DevOps Code ClearCase Rational DOORS Rational Performance Tester Rational Rhapsody Rational Rose Rational Software Modeler Rational Synergy Rational Unified Process References [ edit ] ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as

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