Complex sentence: Patrick Joseph McGovern and his friend Fred Kirch founded IDC in Massachusetts in 1964 after companies such as Univac, Xerox and Burroughs paid McGovern for his research on the future of computer technology.
Split into simpler sentences: Patrick Joseph McGovern and his friend Fred Kirch founded IDC, in Massachusetts, in 1964. Companies such as Univac, Xerox and Burroughs paid IDC for research on the future of computer technology.