| John Diebold  AKA John Theurer Diebold
Born: 8-Jun-1926
Birthplace: Weehawken, NJ
Died: 26-Dec-2005
Location of death: Bedford Hills, NY
Cause of death: Cancer - Throat
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author, Business, Computer Programmer
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Advocate of automation Military service: US Merchant Marine (1944-45) John Diebold (pronounced DEE-bold) was an early expert and tireless promoter of computer systems for accounting, business, and industrial purposes. His 1952 book Automation helped to define and popularize that new word — automation — and became a widely influential best-seller. Written in a time when there were about 100 computers in the entire world, each of which weighed tons, filled an entire room, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, Diebold's Automation predicted a future of programmable devices for easy data storage and retrieval in banks, factories, hospitals, and general office applications, with computers integrated into all aspects of virtually every business.
He established John Diebold & Associates in 1954, one of the first technology consultancies, which provided advice on computer purchases and applications to a wide variety of major corporations. In 1961, his company (by then renamed Diebold Group) designed and installed the first electronic banking network, connecting the branches of New York City's Bowery Savings Bank. An unprecedented technological breakthrough, this system allowed managers at any branch of the bank to obtain customer balances instantly, reflecting deposits or withdrawals made mere moments earlier, even if those transactions took place at another branch.
Despite his uncommon last name, nothing in the record suggests that he was related to Charles Diebold, founder of the software and security firm Diebold, a prominent manufacturer of ATMs. His only known association with that company is that it was among the dozens of firms, organizations, cities, states, and nations for which his company provided consulting services. He retired in 1991, selling Diebold Group to Daimler-Benz, and died in 2005. Father: William Diebold (lawyer)
Mother: Rose Theurer
Brother: William Diebold, Jr. (Council of Foreign Relations)
Wife: Doris Hackett (company treasurer, m. 22-Nov-1951, div.)
Daughter: Joan (b. 1962)
Wife: Vanessa
Daughter: Emma
Son: John
High School: Weehawkeen High School, Weehawken, NJ
University: BA, Swarthmore College (1947)
University: BS Engineering, United States Merchant Marine Academy (1949)
University: MBA, Harvard Business School (1951)
Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies Founder & Chairman (1968-91)
Diebold Group Founder & CEO (1954-91)
Griffenhagen & Associates Associate (1951-57)
3M Consultant
AFL-CIO Consultant
American Can Consultant
American Express Consultant
American Hospital Association Consultant
American International Group Consultant
AT&T Consultant
Bankers Trust Consultant
Bell and Howell Consultant
Bell Canada Consultant
Bendix Consultant
Bloomingdale's Consultant
Boeing Consultant
Bowery Savings Bank Consultant
Burroughs Consultant
Caltex Consultant
CBS Consultant
Chase Manhattan Bank Consultant
CIGNA Consultant
Citibank Consultant
City of Chicago Consultant
City of New York Consultant
City of Savannah, GA Consultant
Continental Airlines Consultant
Continental Grain Company Consultant
Control Data Corporation Consultant
Corning Consultant
Dean Witter Consultant
Deere Consultant
Diebold Consultant
Doubleday Consultant
Douglas Aircraft Consultant
Dun & Bradstreet Consultant
DuPont Consultant
Ericsson Consultant
Exxon Consultant
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Consultant
Gannett Consultant
General Electric Consultant
General Mills Consultant
Georgia Pacific Consultant
Goodrich Consultant
Harris Bankcorp Consultant
Hearst Consultant
Hercules Consultant
Honeywell Consultant
Hoover Consultant
IBM Consultant
International Paper Consultant
ITT Consultant
J. M. Smucker Co. Consultant
Johnson & Johnson Consultant
K-Mart Consultant
Kodak Consultant
Lockheed Consultant
Loral Corporation Consultant
Lorillard Tobacco Consultant
Lowe's Consultant
Mattel Consultant
MCA Consultant
McDonnell Aircraft Consultant
McKesson Consultant
Mead Consultant
Merck Consultant
Metromedia Consultant
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune Consultant
Mitsubishi Consultant
NASA Consultant
NCR Consultant
Nation of Indonesia Consultant
Nation of Jordan Consultant
Nation of Venezuela Consultant
National Gypsum Company Consultant
National Life Group Consultant
National Science Foundation Consultant
Neiman Marcus Consultant
New York Presbyterian Hospital Consultant
Norfolk Southern Consultant
NYNEX Consultant
Occidental Petroleum Consultant
Owens-Illinois Consultant
Peoples Energy Consultant
Pfizer Consultant
Pitney Bowes Consultant
Polaroid Consultant
PPG Industries Consultant
Public Service Enterprise Group Consultant
RCA Consultant
Ralston Purina Consultant
Raytheon Consultant
Sandoz Consultant
S. C. Johnson & Son Consultant
Schering-Plough Consultant
Scott Paper Consultant
Seaboard Coast Line Industries Consultant
Security Pacific National Bank Consultant
Sherwin-Williams Consultant
Small Business Administration Consultant
Smith Barney Consultant
Sonoco Products Consultant
Southern Pacific Consultant
Sperry Rand Consultant
State of California Consultant
State of Kansas Consultant
State of Louisiana Consultant
State of New Jersey Consultant
State of New York Consultant
State Street Corporation Consultant
Sunbeam Consultant
Sundstrand Consultant
Swiss Re Consultant
Tasty Baking Company Consultant
Texaco Consultant
Tidewater Consultant
Time Consultant
Toro Consultant
Transamerica Consultant
Travelers Corporation Consultant
United Technologies Consultant
US Customs Service Consultant
US Labor Department Consultant
Warner-Lambert Consultant
Western Airlines Consultant
Western Union Consultant
Westinghouse Consultant
WR Grace & Co. Consultant
Xerox Consultant
Carnegie Institution for Science Trustee Emeritus
Charles Babbage Foundation Trustee
Council on Foreign Relations
Economic Club of New York
International Chamber of Commerce
Society for the History of Technology
Author of books:
Automation: The Advent of the Automatic Factory (1952, non-fiction)
Beyond Automation: Managerial Problems of an Exploding Technology (1964, non-fiction)
The Social Impact of Cybernetics (1966, non-fiction)
Man and the Computer: Technology as An Agent of Social Change (1969, non-fiction)
Business Decisions and Technological Change (1970, non-fiction)
The Role of Business in Society (1982, non-fiction)
Making the Future Work (1984, non-fiction)
Business in the Age of Information (1985, non-fiction)
Managing Information: The Challenge and the Opportunity (1985, non-fiction)
The Innovators: The Discoveries, Inventions, and Bbreakthroughs (1990, non-fiction)
Transportation Infostructures (1995, non-fiction)
Information Technology in the 21st Century (1998, non-fiction)
Maintaining Profitability in An Increasingly Complex Environment (1998, non-fiction)
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