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Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture (Ibiza, biodiversidad y cultura) is a serial mixed UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 4 December 1999, combining Dalt Vila's Renaissance walls, the Phoenician sites Sa Caleta and Puig des Molins, and Mediterranean Posidonia oceanica meadows.
Ibizan Hound
Ibizan Hound (Podenco Ibicenco, ca eivissenc): a lean, large-eared Spanish sighthound from Ibiza, bred to course rabbits by sight, sound, and scent; AKC-recognized Hound, 22.5–27.5 inches, white or red coat, smooth or wire.
Iblis (إبليس)
Iblis (إبليس), also known as Iblees or Satan in Islam, is the Devil of Islamic tradition, a jinn who refused to bow before Adam out of pride.
Iblul-Il
Iblul-Il, also Iblul-El, was a king of Mari in the mid-third millennium BC who exacted tribute from Ebla and devastated its towns, recorded in the Ebla tablets.
IBM
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American technology company founded in 1911, known for the System/360 mainframe and today operating in software, consulting, and infrastructure.
IBM 305 RAMAC
The IBM 305 RAMAC was a vacuum-tube business computer announced by IBM in 1956, the first computer to use a random-access hard disk drive, the IBM 350.
IBM 3090
The IBM 3090 was a family of high-end IBM mainframe computers, announced in February 1985 as the top range of the IBM 308X series and known in the industry as the Sierra.
IBM 3270
The IBM 3270 is a family of display terminals, printers, and control units announced by IBM in May 1971 for its System/360 and System/370 mainframes, using block-mode transmission.
IBM 704
The IBM 704 was a large-scale vacuum-tube scientific computer announced by IBM in 1954, the first mass-produced computer to combine magnetic-core memory with floating-point arithmetic.
IBM 7090
The IBM 7090 was a transistorized scientific mainframe IBM first delivered in November 1959, keeping the 709's 36-bit architecture while running about six times faster.
IBM AIX
IBM AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a commercial UNIX operating system developed by IBM for its Power architecture servers. First released in 1986, it remains in active development, currently at version 7.3.
IBM and the Holocaust
IBM and the Holocaust is Edwin Black's 2001 book arguing IBM and its Dehomag subsidiary leased Hollerith punch-card machines used by Nazi Germany for censuses, deportations, and camp administration; some historians dispute its strongest claims.
IBM Aptiva
The IBM Aptiva, or Aptiva, was a line of home and small-business computers that IBM sold from September 1994 until 2001, replacing the PS/1 line.
IBM AS/400
The IBM AS/400 is a family of midrange business servers announced by IBM in June 1988, built on an integrated architecture whose OS/400 survives as IBM i.
IBM Blue Gene
IBM Blue Gene is a family of massively parallel supercomputers developed by IBM, whose Blue Gene/L was the world's fastest computer from 2004 to 2007.
IBM Cognos
IBM Cognos is a business intelligence software line from Cognos Incorporated, an Ottawa firm founded in 1969 that IBM acquired for $5 billion in 2008; its flagship is Cognos Analytics.
IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM Cognos Analytics is IBM's web-based business intelligence platform for enterprise-scale reporting, dashboards, data modeling, and AI-assisted analysis, with governance and fine-grained access controls across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments.
IBM Common User Access
IBM Common User Access, also known as IBM CUA, is a set of user interface design guidelines published by IBM starting in 1987 as part of its Systems Application Architecture.
IBM Condor
IBM Condor is a 1,121-qubit superconducting quantum processor announced by IBM in December 2023, then the largest transmon-based chip, built to demonstrate single-chip scale rather than performance.
IBM Db2
IBM Db2 is a family of relational database management systems developed by IBM, first announced in 1983 for mainframes and now serving transactional, analytical, and AI workloads on premises and in hybrid cloud.
IBM Eagle
IBM Eagle is a 127-qubit superconducting quantum processor announced by IBM on November 16, 2021, its first with over 100 qubits and the platform for a 2023 quantum utility experiment.
IBM Falcon and Hummingbird
IBM Falcon and Hummingbird are families of superconducting quantum processors from IBM Quantum, released in 2019 and 2020 with 27 and 65 qubits and built on the heavy-hexagonal qubit layout.
IBM five-qubit quantum computer
The IBM five-qubit quantum computer was a superconducting processor that IBM put on the public cloud in May 2016, the first anyone could program over the internet.
IBM Granite
IBM Granite is a family of open-source generative AI foundation models developed by IBM for enterprise use, first released through watsonx on September 28, 2023.
IBM India
IBM India Private Limited is the Indian subsidiary of IBM Corporation, incorporated in Bangalore in 1997, providing sales, delivery, and engineering services that account for about one-third of IBM's workforce.
IBM mainframe
An IBM mainframe is a large, high-reliability computer for continuous transaction processing, still running the core systems of banking, insurance, and government since the 1964 System/360.
IBM Maximo
IBM Maximo is an enterprise asset management software family, originally developed by MRO Software and owned by IBM since 2006, now offered as the Maximo Application Suite.
IBM Parallel Sysplex
IBM Parallel Sysplex is IBM's 1994 clustering technology for z/OS mainframes, letting up to 32 systems share data through a Coupling Facility while behaving as one platform.
IBM PC compatible
An IBM PC compatible, or PC clone, is a computer built to run software written for IBM's 1981 Personal Computer, the standard that dominated personal computing.
IBM PC keyboard
The IBM PC keyboard is the 83-key keyboard IBM supplied with the original IBM Personal Computer in 1981, whose scan-code conventions PC keyboards followed for decades.