Date | Grid | Clue | Author | Editor |
Mon Jan 13, 2025 | 58D | Company nicknamed "Big Blue" (3) | Adam Levav | Shortz |
Sun Jul 28, 2024 | 4D | Pioneer in computer chess (2) | Paolo Pasco | Fagliano |
Sun Jun 23, 2024 | 115D | Company that once generated more than 4,000 patents in a single year | Michael Schlossberg | Fagliano |
Thu Nov 23, 2023 | 35D | Company featured in the documentary "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine" | Vasu Seralathan | Shortz |
Mon Oct 16, 2023 | 7D | Tech giant dubbed "Big Blue" | Michael Lieberman and Andrea Carla Michaels | Shortz |
Sun Jul 30, 2023 | 10D | "Nobody ever got fired for buying ___" (old business saying) | John Kugelman | Shortz |
Sat Nov 5, 2022 | 46A | Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions | John Westwig | Shortz |
Tue Oct 4, 2022 | 1A | Big name in artificial intelligence | Joe Deeney | Shortz |
Sun Jun 19, 2022 | 7D | Big name in cloud computing (2) | Jeremy Newton | Shortz |
Mon May 10, 2021 | 1D | Creator of Watson on "Jeopardy!" | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Sat Dec 12, 2020 | 1A | Company with the most U.S. patents per year since 1993 | Sid Sivakumar and Brooke Husic | Shortz |
Tue Nov 10, 2020 | 60D | Company nicknamed Big Blue (3) | Robert Fisher | Shortz |
Mon Feb 3, 2020 | 33A | Company nicknamed "Big Blue" (3) | Michael Schlossberg | Shortz |
Mon Jan 13, 2020 | 36D | Company behind the Watson project | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Tue Dec 24, 2019 | 36A | Co. in the Dow Jones index since 1979 | Alex Eaton-Salners | Shortz |
Mon Jul 8, 2019 | 55D | Company that pioneered the U.P.C. bar code | Ned White | Shortz |
Sun Jul 7, 2019 | 27A | Watson's creator (5) | Jack Reuter | Shortz |
Thu Dec 6, 2018 | 29A | Co. with a striped logo | Sophia Maymudes | Shortz |
Wed Nov 14, 2018 | 55D | Big name in cloud computing (2) | Sam Trabucco | Shortz |
Sun Sep 2, 2018 | 36D | Watson's company (2) | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Thu Jul 19, 2018 | 57A | *Shakespearean prince | Mike Knobler | Shortz |
Fri Jul 6, 2018 | 51A | Floppy disk creator | Robyn Weintraub | Shortz |
Sun May 20, 2018 | 8D | Watson's company (2) | Will Nediger | Shortz |
Tue Sep 5, 2017 | 21A | "Big Blue" (9) | Michelle Kenney and Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Sun Jul 23, 2017 | 10A | Pioneer in computer chess (2) | Caleb Madison | Shortz |
Sun Oct 16, 2016 | 115D | 49-Down, with each letter shifted one place later in the alphabet (coincidence?) | Tom McCoy | Shortz |
Sun Jun 12, 2016 | 57A | Watson's creator (5) | Finn Vigeland | Shortz |
Sat May 14, 2016 | 27A | Terminal giant, once | Jeff Chen | Shortz |
Mon Apr 25, 2016 | 10D | "Let's Build a Smarter Planet" co. | Betty Keller | Shortz |
Mon Feb 29, 2016 | 62D | Tech giant with a striped blue logo | Joel Fagliano | Shortz |
Mon Nov 23, 2015 | 53A | Tech giant known as Big Blue | Parker Lewis | Shortz |
Sun Oct 11, 2015 | 15A | Co. that invented the floppy disk | David J. Kahn | Shortz |
Tue Aug 25, 2015 | 64D | Original ThinkPad manufacturer | John E. Bennett | Shortz |
Tue Jul 14, 2015 | 59D | Big Blue on the stock mkt. | Kevin Christian and Brad Wilber | Shortz |
Mon May 4, 2015 | 55A | Co. that developed the ThinkPad | Zhouqin Burnikel | Shortz |
Wed Apr 1, 2015 | 45A | "Smarter Planet" co. | Sharon Delorme | Shortz |
Fri Mar 7, 2014 | 40A | Corporate giant co-founded by Thomas Watson | Matt Ginsberg | Shortz |
Tue Dec 31, 2013 | 60D | Co. with the motto "Think" | Tracy Gray | Shortz |
Sat Oct 5, 2013 | 47A | Watson's creator (5) | Byron Walden | Shortz |
Fri Sep 13, 2013 | 6D | Big name in storage | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Thu Sep 6, 2012 | 32A | Creator of U.P.C.'s | Ben Pall | Shortz |
Wed Jul 11, 2012 | 50A | Watson's creator (5) | Allan E. Parrish | Shortz |
Sun May 13, 2012 | 14D | It has many servers | Ben Tausig | Shortz |
Wed May 2, 2012 | 6A | Watson's creator (5) | Paula Gamache | Shortz |
Thu Oct 13, 2011 | 22A | One of the 30 Dow Jones industrials | John Farmer | Shortz |
Sun Oct 17, 2010 | 61D | Tech stock (2) | Patrick Blindauer | Shortz |
Sun Aug 22, 2010 | 5D | Maker of the Roadrunner supercomputer | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Sun Jul 25, 2010 | 39D | Maker of the trivia-playing computer program Watson | Alan Arbesfeld | Shortz |
Sun Jul 11, 2010 | 84A | Big hirer of techies | Ed Sessa | Shortz |
Wed Mar 10, 2010 | 56D | Big Blue (9) | Gary Steinmehl | Shortz |
Mon Mar 1, 2010 | 41D | Company called "Big Blue" | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sun Feb 7, 2010 | 91A | IntelliStation maker | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Tue Nov 24, 2009 | 25A | PC introducer of 1981 | Victor Fleming and Bonnie L. Gentry | Shortz |
Wed Jun 10, 2009 | 13D | ThinkPad developer | Richard Silvestri | Shortz |
Sun Jun 7, 2009 | 120D | Creator of the chess champion Deep Blue | Jeremy Newton | Shortz |
Mon Jun 1, 2009 | 10A | "Think" sloganeer (3) | John Farmer | Shortz |
Sun May 17, 2009 | 10D | Big Blue (9) | Oliver Hill | Shortz |
Fri Nov 21, 2008 | 4D | Co. whose employees have won four Nobel Prizes | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Wed Jul 9, 2008 | 47A | Former Notebook maker | Tim Wescott | Shortz |
Sun Jun 8, 2008 | 24D | Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., today (2) | Will Nediger | Shortz |
Tue Mar 20, 2007 | 53A | Big Blue (9) | Laura A. Halper | Shortz |
Fri Jul 21, 2006 | 61A | Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., today (2) | Kyle Mahowald | Shortz |
Wed May 31, 2006 | 23D | "Think" sloganeer (3) | Trip Payne | Shortz |
Tue Mar 28, 2006 | 6D | "Think" sloganeer (3) | Jim Hyres | Shortz |
Sun Jan 1, 2006 | 97A | Notebook maker (3) | Joe DiPietro | Shortz |
Fri Oct 21, 2005 | 9D | Tech stock option | Louis Hildebrand | Shortz |
Thu Jul 7, 2005 | 23D | Its name is also its N.Y.S.E. symbol | David Quarfoot | Shortz |
Mon Jun 20, 2005 | 62D | Hewlett-Packard rival: Abbr. | Alison Donald | Shortz |
Wed Mar 2, 2005 | 55A | Notebook maker (3) | James M. Jenista and Dana McLemore | Shortz |
Sun Feb 27, 2005 | 103D | Big Blue (9) | Mike Torch | Shortz |
Sat Dec 4, 2004 | 9D | Notebook maker (3) | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Fri Sep 3, 2004 | 29D | Corporate inits. since 1924 | Edgar R. Fontaine | Shortz |
Sun Dec 28, 2003 | 50D | Company whose name is also its stock symbol | Seth A. Abel | Shortz |
Fri Nov 21, 2003 | 53D | It acquired Lotus in 1995 | David Ainslie Macleod | Shortz |
Fri May 30, 2003 | 10D | Dell competitor | Patrick Berry | Shortz |
Thu Feb 21, 2002 | 51D | Deep Blue maker | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Wed Dec 12, 2001 | 58D | PC maker (2) | Peter Gordon | Shortz |
Sun Nov 25, 2001 | 108D | One of the Dow Jones Industrials | Bob Klahn and Harvey Estes | Shortz |
Sun May 13, 2001 | 33D | Fortran language developer | Nancy Nicholson Joline | Shortz |
Wed May 9, 2001 | 39D | DOS popularizer | Ethan Cooper | Shortz |
Thu Feb 15, 2001 | 32D | ThinkPad producer | David Ainslie Macleod | Shortz |
Mon Feb 5, 2001 | 5D | Co. called "Big Blue" | Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes | Shortz |
Sun Dec 10, 2000 | 115D | Company that programmed Deep Blue | Rich Norris | Shortz |
Sun Aug 27, 2000 | 92A | Tech stock choice | Dana Motley | Shortz |
Fri Feb 4, 2000 | 38A | Tech stock (2) | Dana Motley | Shortz |
Wed Nov 24, 1999 | 58D | Big Blue (9) | Greg Staples | Shortz |
Sun Nov 21, 1999 | 65A | OS/2 company | Patrick D. Berry | Shortz |
Fri May 7, 1999 | 43D | Former co-owner of Prodigy | Dana Motley | Shortz |
Wed Mar 31, 1999 | 47A | "Big Blue" (9) | Patrick Jordan | Shortz |
Tue Nov 11, 1997 | 25A | Big Blue (9) | Brendan Emmett Quigley | Shortz |
Sat Sep 27, 1997 | 34D | Noted blue chip | Matt Gaffney | Shortz |
Wed Jul 9, 1997 | 12D | PC maker (2) | Chuck Deodene | Shortz |
Mon Oct 7, 1996 | 5D | Blue chip co. | S. Spadaccini | Shortz |
Sun Mar 3, 1996 | 29D | "Think" tank? | B. Klahn | Shortz |
Thu Aug 24, 1995 | 10D | Big Blue (9) | Matt Gaffney | Shortz |
Sun Apr 16, 1995 | 24D | Apple foe | Matt Gaffney | Shortz |
Fri Sep 9, 1994 | 1A | Apple competitor | Bob Klahn | Shortz |
Fri Apr 22, 1994 | 41D | Computer co. | A.J. Santora | Shortz |