Chapter Five -- Programming and Problem Solving with Java™

Chapter Five

1951 - 1957
	1951	Admiral Grace Murray Hopper invents the first compiler
U.S. Army Photo	1952	The EDVAC, the first stored-program computer, is operational
	1952	IBM introduces the IBM 701
	1953	The IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Calculator is introduced, mass produced, and becomes the best selling computer of the 1950s.
	1954	Earl Masterson at Univac introduces his Uniprinter, a line printer that prints 600 lines per minute
Courtesy of Texas Instruments	1954	Texas Instruments develops the world's first silicon transistor
	1956-57	The RAMAC, random-access method of accounting and control, is introduced by IBM for hard disk data storage
Courtesy of Joseph Mehling, Dartmouth College Photographer	1957	The concept of artificial intelligence is developed at Dartmouth College
	1957	John Backus debuts the first Fortran compiler
	1957	John McCarthy founds MIT's Artificial Intelligence Department
	1957	The first computer-controlled launch of the Atlas Missile takes place.
NASA Photo	1957	Russia launches Sputnik I into orbit

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