A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

IBM

Sun, 28 Jul '24
Pioneer in computer chess
Sun, 23 Jun '24
Company that once generated more than 4,000 patents in a single year
Thu, 23 Nov '23
Company featured in the documentary "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine"
Mon, 16 Oct '23
Tech giant dubbed "Big Blue"
Sun, 30 Jul '23
"Nobody ever got fired for buying ___" (old business saying)
Sat, 5 Nov '22
Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions
Tue, 4 Oct '22
Big name in artificial intelligence
Sun, 19 Jun '22
Big name in cloud computing
Mon, 10 May '21
Creator of Watson on "Jeopardy!"