Gideon Gartner, visionary of technology research, dies at 85
Gideon Gartner, visionary of technology research, dies at 85 Glenn Rifkin Gideon Gartner, whose technology research firm the Gartner Group revolutionized an influential and lucrative sector of the technology industry by providing crucial research, analysis and advice for corporate computer executives, died Dec. 12 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said his son Perry Gartner. An MIT-trained engineer and Wall Street analyst, Mr. Gartner put an indelible stamp on the tech research industry in 1979 when he started ...
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