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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