| 1962 - 1967 |
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1962
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MIT grad student Steve Russell uses the DEC computer
PDP-1 to create
Spacewar!, the first video game |
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IBM Corporate Archives
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1962
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The Bell Labs Telstar communications satellite makes
possible the first transatlantic television pictures |
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1963
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Joseph Weizenbaum develops "Eliza," a program that
acts like a psychotherapist by following a script, but appears
to have intelligence |
Courtesy of Bob Bemer
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1963
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ASCII code, largely the work of Bob Bemer, is accepted
by the American National Standards Institute |
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1963
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The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system,
a real-time computer-based command and control system defense,
is fully deployed |
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1964
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John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop the programming
language BASIC |
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1964
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Control Data Corporation presents Seymour Cray's
CDC 6600, the first commercial supercomputer |
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1964
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IBM develops a computer-aided design (C.A.D.) system |
Courtesy of Bootstrap Institute
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1964
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Douglas Engelbart invents the computer mouse |
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1965
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J.A. Robinson sets the stage for logic programming
with the development of unification |
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1967
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Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard create Simula,
the first object-oriented programming language |
Courtesy of Texas Instruments
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1967
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The first hand-held electronic calculator that can add, subtract, multiply, and divide is created by Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman, and James Van Tassel at Texas Instruments |
