Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
Thu Nov 23, 2023 | 35D | Company featured in the documentary "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine" | Vasu Seralathan |
Mon Oct 16, 2023 | 7D | Tech giant dubbed "Big Blue" | Michael Lieberman and Andrea Carla Michaels |
Sun Jul 30, 2023 | 10D | "Nobody ever got fired for buying ___" (old business saying) | John Kugelman |
Sat Nov 5, 2022 | 46A | Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions | John Westwig |
Tue Oct 4, 2022 | 1A | Big name in artificial intelligence | Joe Deeney |
Sun Jun 19, 2022 | 7D | Big name in cloud computing (2) | Jeremy Newton |
Mon May 10, 2021 | 1D | Creator of Watson on "Jeopardy!" | Zhouqin Burnikel |
Sat Dec 12, 2020 | 1A | Company with the most U.S. patents per year since 1993 | Sid Sivakumar and Brooke Husic |
Tue Nov 10, 2020 | 60D | Company nicknamed Big Blue (2) | Robert Fisher |
Mon Feb 3, 2020 | 33A | Company nicknamed "Big Blue" (2) | Michael Schlossberg |
Mon Jan 13, 2020 | 36D | Company behind the Watson project | Alan Arbesfeld |
Tue Dec 24, 2019 | 36A | Co. in the Dow Jones index since 1979 | Alex Eaton-Salners |
Mon Jul 8, 2019 | 55D | Company that pioneered the U.P.C. bar code | Ned White |
Sun Jul 7, 2019 | 27A | Watson's creator (5) | Jack Reuter |
Thu Dec 6, 2018 | 29A | Co. with a striped logo | Sophia Maymudes |
Wed Nov 14, 2018 | 55D | Big name in cloud computing (2) | Sam Trabucco |
Sun Sep 2, 2018 | 36D | Watson's company (2) | Tom McCoy |
Thu Jul 19, 2018 | 57A | *Shakespearean prince | Mike Knobler |
Fri Jul 6, 2018 | 51A | Floppy disk creator | Robyn Weintraub |
Sun May 20, 2018 | 8D | Watson's company (2) | Will Nediger |
Tue Sep 5, 2017 | 21A | "Big Blue" (9) | Michelle Kenney and Jeff Chen |
Sun Jul 23, 2017 | 10A | Pioneer in computer chess | Caleb Madison |
Sun Oct 16, 2016 | 115D | 49-Down, with each letter shifted one place later in the alphabet (coincidence?) | Tom McCoy |
Sun Jun 12, 2016 | 57A | Watson's creator (5) | Finn Vigeland |
Sat May 14, 2016 | 27A | Terminal giant, once | Jeff Chen |
Mon Apr 25, 2016 | 10D | "Let's Build a Smarter Planet" co. | Betty Keller |
Mon Feb 29, 2016 | 62D | Tech giant with a striped blue logo | Joel Fagliano |
Mon Nov 23, 2015 | 53A | Tech giant known as Big Blue | Parker Lewis |
Sun Oct 11, 2015 | 15A | Co. that invented the floppy disk | David J. Kahn |
Tue Aug 25, 2015 | 64D | Original ThinkPad manufacturer | John E. Bennett |
Tue Jul 14, 2015 | 59D | Big Blue on the stock mkt. | Kevin Christian and Brad Wilber |
Mon May 4, 2015 | 55A | Co. that developed the ThinkPad | Zhouqin Burnikel |
Wed Apr 1, 2015 | 45A | "Smarter Planet" co. | Sharon Delorme |
Fri Mar 7, 2014 | 40A | Corporate giant co-founded by Thomas Watson | Matt Ginsberg |
Tue Dec 31, 2013 | 60D | Co. with the motto "Think" | Tracy Gray |
Sat Oct 5, 2013 | 47A | Watson's creator (5) | Byron Walden |
Fri Sep 13, 2013 | 6D | Big name in storage | Patrick Berry |
Thu Sep 6, 2012 | 32A | Creator of U.P.C.'s | Ben Pall |
Wed Jul 11, 2012 | 50A | Watson's creator (5) | Allan E. Parrish |
Sun May 13, 2012 | 14D | It has many servers | Ben Tausig |
Wed May 2, 2012 | 6A | Watson's creator (5) | Paula Gamache |
Thu Oct 13, 2011 | 22A | One of the 30 Dow Jones industrials | John Farmer |
Sun Oct 17, 2010 | 61D | Tech stock (2) | Patrick Blindauer |
Sun Aug 22, 2010 | 5D | Maker of the Roadrunner supercomputer | Patrick Berry |
Sun Jul 25, 2010 | 39D | Maker of the trivia-playing computer program Watson | Alan Arbesfeld |
Sun Jul 11, 2010 | 84A | Big hirer of techies | Ed Sessa |
Wed Mar 10, 2010 | 56D | Big Blue (9) | Gary Steinmehl |
Mon Mar 1, 2010 | 41D | Company called "Big Blue" | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
Sun Feb 7, 2010 | 91A | IntelliStation maker | Patrick Berry |
Tue Nov 24, 2009 | 25A | PC introducer of 1981 | Victor Fleming and Bonnie L. Gentry |
Wed Jun 10, 2009 | 13D | ThinkPad developer | Richard Silvestri |
Sun Jun 7, 2009 | 120D | Creator of the chess champion Deep Blue | Jeremy Newton |
Mon Jun 1, 2009 | 10A | "Think" sloganeer (3) | John Farmer |
Sun May 17, 2009 | 10D | Big Blue (9) | Oliver Hill |
Fri Nov 21, 2008 | 4D | Co. whose employees have won four Nobel Prizes | Patrick Berry |
Wed Jul 9, 2008 | 47A | Former Notebook maker | Tim Wescott |
Sun Jun 8, 2008 | 24D | Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., today (2) | Will Nediger |
Tue Mar 20, 2007 | 53A | Big Blue (9) | Laura A. Halper |
Fri Jul 21, 2006 | 61A | Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., today (2) | Kyle Mahowald |
Wed May 31, 2006 | 23D | "Think" sloganeer (3) | Trip Payne |
Tue Mar 28, 2006 | 6D | "Think" sloganeer (3) | Jim Hyres |
Sun Jan 1, 2006 | 97A | Notebook maker (3) | Joe DiPietro |
Fri Oct 21, 2005 | 9D | Tech stock option | Louis Hildebrand |
Thu Jul 7, 2005 | 23D | Its name is also its N.Y.S.E. symbol | David Quarfoot |
Mon Jun 20, 2005 | 62D | Hewlett-Packard rival: Abbr. | Alison Donald |
Wed Mar 2, 2005 | 55A | Notebook maker (3) | James M. Jenista and Dana McLemore |
Sun Feb 27, 2005 | 103D | Big Blue (9) | Mike Torch |
Sat Dec 4, 2004 | 9D | Notebook maker (3) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
Fri Sep 3, 2004 | 29D | Corporate inits. since 1924 | Edgar R. Fontaine |
Sun Dec 28, 2003 | 50D | Company whose name is also its stock symbol | Seth A. Abel |
Fri Nov 21, 2003 | 53D | It acquired Lotus in 1995 | David Ainslie Macleod |
Fri May 30, 2003 | 10D | Dell competitor | Patrick Berry |
Thu Feb 21, 2002 | 51D | Deep Blue maker | Peter Gordon |
Wed Dec 12, 2001 | 58D | PC maker (2) | Peter Gordon |
Sun Nov 25, 2001 | 108D | One of the Dow Jones Industrials | Bob Klahn and Harvey Estes |
Sun May 13, 2001 | 33D | Fortran language developer | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
Wed May 9, 2001 | 39D | DOS popularizer | Ethan Cooper |
Thu Feb 15, 2001 | 32D | ThinkPad producer | David Ainslie Macleod |
Mon Feb 5, 2001 | 5D | Co. called "Big Blue" | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes |
Sun Dec 10, 2000 | 115D | Company that programmed Deep Blue | Rich Norris |
Sun Aug 27, 2000 | 92A | Tech stock choice | Dana Motley |
Fri Feb 4, 2000 | 38A | Tech stock (2) | Dana Motley |
Wed Nov 24, 1999 | 58D | Big Blue (9) | Greg Staples |
Sun Nov 21, 1999 | 65A | OS/2 company | Patrick D. Berry |
Fri May 7, 1999 | 43D | Former co-owner of Prodigy | Dana Motley |
Wed Mar 31, 1999 | 47A | "Big Blue" (9) | Patrick Jordan |
Tue Nov 11, 1997 | 25A | Big Blue (9) | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
Sat Sep 27, 1997 | 34D | Noted blue chip | Matt Gaffney |
Wed Jul 9, 1997 | 12D | PC maker (2) | Chuck Deodene |
Mon Oct 7, 1996 | 5D | Blue chip co. | S. Spadaccini |
Sun Mar 3, 1996 | 29D | "Think" tank? | B. Klahn |
Thu Aug 24, 1995 | 10D | Big Blue (9) | Matt Gaffney |
Sun Apr 16, 1995 | 24D | Apple foe | Matt Gaffney |
Fri Sep 9, 1994 | 1A | Apple competitor | Bob Klahn |
Fri Apr 22, 1994 | 41D | Computer co. | A.J. Santora |