In defense of Google, I think their machine translation is highly underrated, its simply incredible how good it is, at least for European languages. As is their contribution to building large data centers and manipulating large amounts of data (mapreduce, Bigtable was the first major nosql).
Facebook is too young to tell.
Still, IBM is the gold standard for CS research - Microsoft appears to have many productive researchers but I'm not sure they have made fundamental advances like virtual memory, hard disks, relational databases (all of which came from IBM).
That sounds like the old joke, "I can see that it works in practice but will it work in theory?" If the Burroughs guys both invented it and commercialized it then surely they should get the credit for it.
I agree, I hadn't heard of the Burroughs guys until this post. The two papers I linked to were always the earliest ones I was aware of.
There's a surprising amount of stuff that gets built though without understanding all of the theory behind it. So it doesn't surprise me if a "pre-theory" example of VM was built.
After all, we had the wheel for thousands of years before figuring out PI.
Facebook is too young to tell.
Still, IBM is the gold standard for CS research - Microsoft appears to have many productive researchers but I'm not sure they have made fundamental advances like virtual memory, hard disks, relational databases (all of which came from IBM).