INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Editor's note: More than 50 years ago, at the dawn of the computer age, Patrick J
McGovern founded International Data Corp., and, later, International Data Group (the parent company of Computerworld, which he started in
From that small beginning, McGovern, who passed away in 2014, would go on to create a global publishing and data empire.That
empireeventually grew toincludesome 300 publications in 97 countries, 460 websites and 700 eventsfocused on all aspects of the IT industry
And in 2000 it allowed McGovern to work withMIT to create the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
