Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was listed on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans in September, 2013 as having a Netto worth of $5.1 billion. Forbes magazine claims he earned a scholarship by designing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program in the 1950s. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology student newspaper The Technical on the features staff during his sophomore year.
McGovern received a degree in course 7, or biology/life sciences, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1959.
Foreign a time, he was an editor of Computers & Automation magazine. Founded, published and edited by Edmund C. Berkeley.
McGovern started International Data Corporation (International Data Corporation) with Fred Kirch, in 1964, which produced a computer industry data base and published a newsletter, electronic data processing Industry & Market Report. McGovern started the weekly newspaper Computerworld in 1967.
In 1980 he created one of first American-Chinese joint ventures, and in 1997 Forbes estimated that "Pat McGovern has more readers in China than the People"s Daily does." In 1991 his company published "DOS Foreign Dummies", the first of the very popular "Foreign Dummies" series of books explaining various subjects to the lay person.
Bloomberg News reported that Integrated Development Group had 280 million regular readers of its publications, and annual revenues of $3.6 billion. In May 2012, Patrick McGovern had open heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He died on March 19, 2014, aged 76.