Burroughs

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Burroughs

COMPANY

Founded 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company. In 1904 it was renamed to Burroughs Adding Machine Company and relocated to Detroit. Merged in 1986 with Sperry Rand to form Unisys.

Industry:
Computer

Ticker:
(defunct)

Corporate headquarters:
Detroit, MI

EXECUTIVES

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

W. Michael Blumenthal Government 3-Jan-1926 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79

Leon J. Level Business c. 1942 CFO of Computer Sciences Corp, 1989-2006

Paul G. Stern Business 31-Oct-1938 CEO of Northern Telecom, 1989-93

James A. Unruh Business c. 1942 CEO of Unisys, 1990-97

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

W. Michael Blumenthal Government 3-Jan-1926 US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79

Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. Business 13-Sep-1926 CEO of TIAA-CREF, 1987-92

EMPLOYMENT

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Jaime Escalante Educator 31-Dec-1930 30-Mar-2010 Celebrated high school calculus teacher

Robert Greifeld Business 18-Jul-1957 President and CEO of NASDAQ

Naveen Jain Business 1959 Founder of InfoSpace

Scott G. Kriens Business c. 1957 CEO of Juniper Networks

David Rynne Business c. 1941 CFO of Tandem Computers, 1983-96

EXTRANEOUS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

John Diebold Author 8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation

Donald E. Knuth Computer Programmer 10-Jan-1938 The Art of Computer Programming

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