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Patrick Joseph McGovern, Jr. (born August 11, 1937) is the chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), a company that includes subsidiaries in technology publishing, research and event management. He is a trustee of MIT, and on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, where he was ranked 85th in 2006, with a net worth of $3 billion.
Forbes Magazine claims he earned a scholarship by designing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program (now a trivial programming task, but no mean feat in the 1950s). He worked at the MIT Student Newspaper, The MIT Tech on the features staff during his sophomore year. He has been observed to have a photographic memory and apparently demonstrated it while an undergraduate, according to people who knew him at MIT.
McGovern received a degree in course 7, or biology/life sciences, from MIT, in 1960. * He started IDG in 1964, then founded the weekly newspaper Computerworld in 1967. He is currently associated with the Whitehead Institute. He has been divorced once, has four children, and lives in Hollis, N.H. He and his second wife Lore Harp gave MIT $350 million to found the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
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