| 1968 -1971 |
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1968
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A NATO Science Committee introduces the term "software
engineering" |
Courtesy of The University of Texas at Austin
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1968
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Edsger Dijkstra advocates for reliable software
with a letter citing the weaknesses of the Go To statement |
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1968
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Integrated circuits debut in computers |
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1968
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The Federal Information Processing Standard promotes
the YYMMDD standard for the date, setting the stage for the Y2K
problem |
Courtesy of Intel Corporation, Reprinted with
Permission
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1968
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Intel Corporation is established by Robert Noyce,
Andy Grove, and Gordon Moore |
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1969
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Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet, is commissioned
by the US Department of Defense |
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1970
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The mobile robot Shakey uses artificial intelligence
in its navigation |
Lucent Technologies Inc. / Bell Labs
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1970
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Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thomson at Bell Labs
develop the Unix operating system for which they later received
the U.S. National Medal of Technology |
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1970
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IBM introduces the 8 inch floppy disk |
Getty Images/ PhotoDisk 2003
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1971
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A team at Intel creates the first microprocessor,
the Intel 4004 |
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1971
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Ray Tomlinson uses the @ sign, and sends the first
electronic-mail message through ARPANET |
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1971
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The programming language Pascal is developed by Niklaus Wirth
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