Who do you know who is an expert at chess, speed reads, has a photographic memory, understands, reads and speaks many languages, has libraries of information at his fingertips, knows medicine, can read X-rays, can âdata mineâ customer data bases, can play and design music, can design dresses, can teach students and finally can always win at âJeopardyâ? Of course, my loving wife would say âSteve,â but no, no, Steve must most humbly protest. ⦠Because itâs IBM Watson. The IBM corporation was founded in 1911 in Endicott, New York, along the Pennsylvania border, as the Computing Tabulating Company, becoming International Business Machines in 1924 and then IBM in 1933. Its headquarters are now in Armonk, New York.