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Date Description References Name
2000 BC The abacus is invented. A frame made out of wood holding rods with sliding beads on them, used to aid in arithmetic calculations. http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/history.html Joshua Cuneo
1510 Peter Henlien creates the mechanical clock http://www.historyofwatch.com/ Alberto Ramirez
1640 Pascal created the first mechanical calculator Quinn M. Ethics for the information age. 7th ed. Pearson; 2016:6. Ally Howell
1659 Christiaan Huygens invents a magic lantern, early form of a projector http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium/pm.cgi?action=displaylogin=projector_history Alberto Ramirez
1831 Michael Faraday invents the first electric dynamo https://www.universetoday.com/82402/who-discovered-electricity/ Ethan Schutzman
1832 The Military Enigma was announced and only available to the German Army http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/hist.htm Jason Abel
1836 The ability of the Telegraph is demonstrated by Samuel Morse by using Morse code http://www.wrvmuseum.org/morsecodehistory.htm Jason Abel
1838 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph machine M. J. Quinn, “Catalysts for Change,” in Ethics for the Information Age, 7th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2016. Gianluca Tarquinio
1844 Morse sends the Telegraph message "What hath God wrought" to his partner opening up telegraph lines https://www.loc.gov/collections/samuel-morse-papers/articles-and-essays/invention-of-the-telegraph/ Rachel Manca
1846-1848 Charles Babbage designs his second Difference Engine. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1498720/ Tessa Garbely
1858 The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cables http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.wpi.edu/document/871324/ B Bowers
1860's The first commercially successful typewriter invented by Christopher Latham Sholes with help from Carlos Gidden, Chief Lieutenant http://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept12/2012/10/28/the-typewriter-a-remarkable-impact-on-communication/ Jason Abel
1865 The concept of Email was introduced where you leave messages in another person's file directory for them to see later http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html Jason Abel
1872 Email sent over computer networks was created by Ray Tomlinson http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html Jason Abel
1876 Alexander Bell files for patent for the telephone http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5252617 Rachel Manca
1879 James Ritty invents the cash register http://www.thecorememory.com/The_History_of_Cash_Registers.pdf, M. Quinn, “Ethics for the Information Age,” 7th Edition, 2017, pp. 8-9 Alberto Ramirez, Catherine Sherman
1880s Heinrich Hertz completes first radar experiments https://www.britannica.com/technology/radar/History-of-radar Alex Hard
1884 Maxim gun invented, a machine gun used in World War I http://www.historynet.com/weapons-of-world-war-i.htm Daniel McKay
1890 Nikola Tesla creates the Tesla coil, the basis of wireless charging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqIiiAN_yu8 Daniel Champlin
1897 75 mm artillery gun invented https://www.britannica.com/technology/artillery Daniel McKay
1906 Lewis Nixon invents a passive sonar listening device https://www.thoughtco.com/the-history-of-sonar-1992436 Alberto Ramirez
1909 William Burroughs finds that the calculator made workers six times faster M. J. Quinn, “Catalysts for Change,” in Ethics for the Information Age, 7th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2016. Gianluca Tarquinio
1915 Ford Instruments MK1 Rangekeep created https://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2015-10/armaments-innovations-revolutionary-rangekeeper Alex Hard
1921 First Pager system used http://www.spok.com/blog/throwback-thursday-history-pagers Rachel Manca
1923 Enigma Machine Created http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/topics/enigma Alex Hard
1929 Tin Pan Alley songwriting company first began distributing music via paper song sheets, allowing for customers to enjoy music from the comfort of their own home and thus paving the way for future music distribution http://ebookcentral.proquest.com.ezproxy.wpi.edu/lib/wpi/reader.action?ppg=3&docID=3038271&tm=1504739080522 Henry Wheeler-Mackta
1939 The soviets use the first remotely operated tanks in Finland http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/tale-teletank-brief-rise-and-long-fall-russia%E2%80%99s-military-robots Michael Antonelli
1942 LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation) was first used by the allies http://www.uscg.mil/history/missions/aton/LORAN/docs/LORAN_Volume_1_Index.asp Alex Hard
1942 The first all-electronic computer was built by John Anastoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University. 1942 was when the project was completed; construction began in 1937. https://www.ece.iastate.edu/the-department/history/history-of-computing/ Jordan Burklund Tessa Garbely
1943 4 wheel Bombe Machine used to defeat Enigma code http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/bombe/ Alex Hard
1943-1945 Plankalkül, the first high-level programming language, was designed http://www.catb.org/retro/plankalkuel/ Siqin Li
1944 The Colossus, an electronic digital computer used to break the German Lorenz SZ-40 cipher machine, finally cracked its first message http://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/colossus/index.htm Jason Abel Tessa Garbely
1945 Nuclear Bomb finished testing by US scientists http://www.ushistory.org/us/51f.asp Daniel McKay
1948 Edwin Herbert Land invents the Polaroid photography https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-photography-and-the-camera-1992331 Alberto Ramirez
1949 Short Code was created, which is one of the first higher-level language for an electronic computer https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Short%20Code%20(computer%20language)&item_type=topic Siqin Li
1950 Alan Turing defined the Turing Test as an indicator of Artificial Intelligence. S. J. Russell, P. Norvig, and E. Davis, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 2010. Brian Zylich
1951 UNIVAC I, one of the first commercial computers, delivered to the U.S. Bureau of the Census. M. J. Quinn, Ethics for the Information Age 7th edition. Hoboken, NJ: Pearson Education, 2017. Tessa Garbely
1952 The first code and compiler was invented for the Mark 1 computer http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=4363 Siqin Li
1954 The language FORTRAN was invented at IBM by John Backus http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/fortran/fortran.html Siqin Li
1958 Jack Kilby creates the first working integrated circuit http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_689592 Daniel Champlin
1950s The ALGOL, a family of imperative programming languages, was invented http://groups.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis400/algol/algol.html Siqin Li
1960's Minuteman II ballistic missile invented, using integrated circuits for improved speed in guidance system M. J. Quinn, Ethics for the Information Age 7th edition. Hoboken, NJ: Pearson Education, 2017. Daniel McKay
1972 Alan C. Kay releases his paper titled "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages", which is one of the first proposals for portable, paperless, and battery powered computers, leading to laptops and tablets becoming common consumer items. http://history-computer.com/Library/Kay72.pdf Jordan Burklund
1974 Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen found Microsoft http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-pc Ethan Schutzman
1975 MITS Altair 8800 is released. At $297 for a kit, this is one of the first computers that is accessible to hobbyists. A BASIC interpreter written for this device also became the foundations of Microsoft. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/ Jordan Burklund
1957 Air Material Command and the Aircraft Industries Association collaborated with MIT to produce the first Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine. http://machinist.org/cnc-computer-numerical-control/the-invention-of-cnc-machining/ Cory Brolliar
1960s Companies started using automated call distributor technology (ACD) https://www.callcentrehelper.com/the-history-of-the-call-centre-15085.htm Catherine Sherman
1961 The first industrial robot (Unimate 1900) was put to market by George Devol https://www.robotics.org/joseph-engelberger/unimate.cfm Cory Brolliar
1961 Arthur Samuel developed a program based on Machine Learning that defeated a nationally-ranked checkers champion. http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/samuel.html Brian Zylich
1962 Ivan Sutherland presents the first graphical user interface which used a light pen to manipulate objects displayed on a CRT. https://3d-innovations.com/blog/the-history-of-computer-aided-design-cad/ Cory Brolliar
1965 The first touch screen is invented by E. A. Johnson https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/from-touch-displays-to-the-surface-a-brief-history-of-touchscreen-technology/ Daniel Champlin
1966 The Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee published a report indicating that Machine Translation was hopeless, causing funding for Natural Language Processing to nearly disappear for 20 years. http://www.hutchinsweb.me.uk/MTNI-14-1996.pdf Brian Zylich
1966 The Development of Fiber Optic Cables http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&u=mlin_c_worpoly&id=GALE%7CA241780798&v=2.1&it=r&sid=summon&ugroup=outside&authCount=1 Stephen Hardy
1968 Ivan Sutherland (known as the "father of computer graphics") created the first Augmented Reality technology. https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-mainstreaming-of-augmented-reality-a-brief-history Cory Brolliar
1968 Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the "mother of all demos"and ushers in the era of GUIs and peripherals for computers. Mouse was first invented. http://www.streusplit.readit-dtp.de/pdf/gui_history.pdf; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY Albert Enyedy; Duong Nguyen
1971 NASA's stress analysis software released to be used in the automotive industry. NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 20110003604: NASA Tech Briefs, March 1998. Volume 22, no. 3Anonymous 1998, pp. 23-24 Rayyan Khan
1972 James P. Anderson pointed out the potential system security issue. http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0772806 Xiaojun Wang
1972 Email starts to be used M. Quinn, “Ethics for the Information Age,” 7th Edition, 2017, pp. 28-30 Catherine Sherman
1973 James Lighthill published a report that criticized the field of AI for not delivering on its ambitious promises, causing an "AI Winter" where research in AI nearly slowed to a halt due to a lack of funding. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4475849/ Brian Zylich
1973 First Hand Held Cell Phone by Motorola libraries.state.ma.us/login?gwurl=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A162186706/SCIC?u=mlin_c_worpoly&xid=b7a0697a. Bob Edwards
1973 ABC (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) ruled to precede the ENIAC as an "automatic digital computer" in a court case concerning the ENIAC patents. http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1387611 Tessa Garbely
1973 CERN touch screens, one the first touch screens, developed with inventor Bent Stumpe. https://cds.cern.ch/record/1248908?ln=en AmyBea Walder
1975 ANIMAL could be the first Trojan horse virus. http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/animal.html Xiaojun Wang
1983 A "network of networks" is created, the foundation of the modern internet http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-internet/ Ethan Schutzman
1983 Apple develops the "Lisa" GUI. Lisa used icons to indicate documents or applications, and included the first pull-down menu. http://www.streusplit.readit-dtp.de/pdf/gui_history.pdf Albert Enyedy
1984 Charles Hull produces the first 3D printer technology https://www.autodesk.com/redshift/history-of-3d-printing/ Cory Brolliar
1984 First portable cell phone, the Motorola 8000 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sBNfZNqcOzoC&oi=

nd&pg=PT6&dq=cell+phone+history&ots=o_ZvBQMncC&sig=sHccxRmmGYdxD30Y8SqbJLLHSP8#v=onepage&q=cell%20phone%20history&f=false

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1985 First rechareable lithium ion battery is produced by Akira Yoshino at Asahi Chemical http://www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/asahi/en/r_and_d/interview/yoshino/pdf/lithium-ion_battery.pdf
1985 Release of Microsoft's first operating system, Windows 1.0 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-first-windows AmyBea Walder Yang Liu
1986 National Science Foundation funds a 56Kbps cross-country network backbones http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/History.html Joshua Cuneo
1986 Robert T.Morris created the first worm virus http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/morris-worm.html Xiaojun Wang
1987 Acorn Computers creates "Arthur" GUI. First implementation of a taskbar. Also used anti-aliasing on the fonts, even in color mode, making the interface look more aesthetically pleasing. http://www.streusplit.readit-dtp.de/pdf/gui_history.pdf Albert Enyedy
1987 AI was first used in banking when Security Pacific National Bank in USA organize a Fraud Prevention Task in order to refute the unauthorized use of debit cards. http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ Nan Hu
1988 National Center of Biotechnology Information is established. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/ Ally Howell
1989 AIM Released https://doi.org/10.1016/S0308-5961(02)00015-0 Gerald Faulhaber
1989 Microsoft released the first version of Office https://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft Yang Liu
1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/ Duong Nguyen
1991 Linus Torvaldis releases the first version of the Linux Kernel. https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_gnulinux.htm Jordan Burklund Yang Liu
1992 CMOS active pixel sensor is created by Eric A. Fossum http://ericfossum.com/Presentations/1995%20Nov%20NASA%20FY95%20Tech%20Progress%20Rpt.pdf Daniel Champlin
1993 NASA develops global positioning technology (GPS) https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/communications/policy/GPS_History.html Catherine Sherman
1994 David Mansbery uses NASA's Embedded Web Technology to create a smart oven. https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/oven.html Rayyan Khan
1994 The first smartphone Simon was released made by IMB http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28802053 Rachel Manca
1995 Self-Driving Car drives on a trip named No Hands Across America http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tjochem/nhaa/nhaa_home_page.html Vanshaj Chowdhary
1995 Microslate Inc. patents a touch screen portable computer. https://www.google.com/patents/US5379057 Albert Enyedy
1995 The MPEG Audio Layer III encoding process and associated MP3 file type was released. Online music distribution would never be the same. http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2011/03/23/134622940/the-mp3-a-history-of-innovation-and-betrayal Henry Wheeler-Mackta
1995 Microsoft released Windows 95 with the introduction of Start Bar. https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/11/10923808/microsoft-windows-start-menu-20-years-visual-history Duong Nguyen
1997 IBM's Deep Blue AI beat the world chess champion. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/deepblue/ ; https://www.ibm.com/blogs/think/2017/05/deep-blue/ Brian Zylich ; Vanshaj Chowdhary http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/technology/25pogue.html
1997 Netflix is created. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/technology/25pogue.html Brian Zylich ; Vanshaj Chowdhary
1997 Stack-smashing protection was first implemented by StackGuard to prevent buffer overflow attacks https://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/full_papers/cowan/cowan.pdf Xiaojun Wang
1999 The online music distribution service Napster released. Users could now download, listen, and share their music files illegitimately. Napster was the first of many popular music piracy services. http://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.wpi.edu/doi/full/10.1080/1478601X.2011.561648?scroll=top&needAccess=true Henry Wheeler-Mackta, Chris Cormier
2000 The online music distribution service LimeWire released. Unlike many competitors, LimeWire relied entirely on Peer-to-peer networking, thus removing the need for a centralized data server and making it much more difficult for the music industry to take meaningful legal action. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com.ezproxy.wpi.edu/lib/wpi/reader.action?ppg=3&docID=3038271&tm=1504739080522 Henry Wheeler-Mackta
2001 A collaboration between John Deere, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and NASA develops self driving tractors. https://www.federallabs.org/index.php?tray=success_stories&tid=1FLtop34&cid=166DWlaptop176 Rayyan Khan
2001 The first version of Bittorrent is released https://www.webcitation.org/5zslWzAdB?url=http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/message/3160 Chris Cormier
2001 Apple's iTunes service releases, allowing for consumers to legally enjoy the benefits of online distribution without having to rely on illegitimate services. The music industry had finally caught up with evolving technology. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.wpi.edu/stable/pdf/30162196.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A84ef7bd9da4a285dff016c2c5b1bb0f9 Henry Wheeler-Mackta
2001 AI beat humans in simulating financial trading competition. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1481339.stm Nan Hu
2001 Apple released it's first smart music player, the iPod https://www.lifewire.com/history-ipod-classic-original-2000732 Yang Liu
2002 iRobot releases the Roomba. J. Forlizzi and C. DiSalvo, "Service robots in the domestic environment: A study of the roomba vacuum in the home," in 2006, . DOI: 10.1145/1121241.1121286. Thomas Hagen
2003 Skype starts to be used https://www.skype.com/en/about/ Catherine Sherman
2005 In 2005, the United States Air Force begins to construct a cyber warfare department. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/US_Air_Force_Prepares_For_Cyber_Warfare_999.html Michael Antonelli
2005 youtube.com domain is registered. http://whois.domaintools.com/youtube.com Chris Cormier
2005 MegaUpload is created. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/11/kim-dotcom-megaupload-founder-plans-reboot-2017 Chris Cormier
2006 A group researching deep learning found a method of unsupervised learning that could detect layers of features without being told what it was looking at Y. LeCun, Y. Bengio and G. Hinton, "Deep learning," Nature, vol. 521, (7553), pp. 436-444, 2015. Gianluca Tarquinio
2007 Apple Releases the first iPhone https://www.thesnugg.com/a-brief-history-of-smartphones.aspx; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4249824/ Ethan Schutzman; Duong Nguyen Yang Liu
2008 The first Android based smartphone is released to consumers. https://www.androidcentral.com/android-pre-history Jordan Burklund
2009 Barack Obama authorizes the increase of use in military drones. N. Sharkey, "The Automation and Proliferation of Military Drones and the Protection of Civilians," Law, Innovation and Technology, vol. 3, (2), pp. 229, 2011. Thomas Hagen Daniel McKay
2009 Windows 7 released to manufacturing and later general availability. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing/ AmyBea Walder
2009 Google Self-Driving Cars are developed. https://waymo.com/journey/ Vanshaj Chowdhary
2009 4G LTE was first released https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G Duong Nguyen
2010 OpenStack is released and cloud computing takes off. https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2012/it_2.html Rayyan Khan
2010 Stuxnet, a malware used for a highly successful attack on Iran is discovered (it's infection date is unknown) https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Teaching/466-566/2012/Resources/presentations/2012/topic9-final/report.pdf Michael Antonelli
2010 Apple's first iPad released for sale (to the US) https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2010/03/05iPad-Available-in-US-on-April-3/ AmyBea Walder
2011 John Deere Releases GreenStar system for farmers http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.wpi.edu/document/1566333/ Ally Howell
2011 IBM's Watson wins Jeopardy! http://johncreid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/The-Era-of-Cognitive-Systems-An-Inside-Look-at-IBM-Watson-and-How-it-Works_.pdf, K. Wagle, "IBM Watson: Revolutionizing healthcare?" Young Scientists Journal, vol. 6, (13), pp. 17, 2013. Vanshaj Chowdhary Gianluca Tarquinio
2012 Curiosity Rover lands on Mars. B. Riddle, "Following our Curiosity," Science Scope, vol. 39, (4), pp. 76-79, 2015. Thomas Hagen
2012 Tesla releases the Tesla Model S. B. Brown, "The Social Life of Autonomous Cars," Computer, vol. 50, (2), pp. 92-96, 2017. Thomas Hagen
2012 FDA approves the RP-VITA the first fully autonomous robot capable of performing medical checkups. Z. Li, C. Yang and E. Burdet, "An Overview of Biomedical Robotics and Bio-Mechatronics Systems and Applications," Ieee Transactions on Systems Man Cybernetics-Systems, vol. 46, (7), pp. 869-874, 2016. Thomas Hagen
2012 Microsoft "delivers Windows 8 to the world". https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2012/10/25/windows-reimagined-windows8 AmyBea Walder
2013 Precision guided firearm designed by TrackingPoint unveiled, capable of accurate shots at over a kilometer https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/17000-linux-powered-rifle-brings-auto-aim-to-the-real-world/ Michael Antonelli
2014 NASA releases a catalog of free NASA developed software to the public. https://fossbytes.com/nasa-free-open-source-software/ Rayyan Khan
2015 Apple releases the apple watch, a major attempt to popularize wearable technology https://www.apple.com/apple-watch-series-1/ Ethan Schutzman
2015 Life insurers using genetic history to deny people insurance morality paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4259574/ Ally Howell
2016 Google develops AlphaGo and defeats the world champion. https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/ Vanshaj Chowdhary Gianluca Tarquinio
2016 First Reported Case of Fraud Involving Bitcoin, says Indian City’s Police https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/first-reported-fraud-case-involving-bitcoin-says-indian-citys-police/ Xiaojun Wang
2016 Microsoft Develops AI to Help Cancer Doctors Find the Right Treatments. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/microsoft-develops-ai-to-help-cancer-doctors-find-the-right-treatments Nan Hu
2016 Predicting judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights: a Natural Language Processing perspective. https://peerj.com/articles/cs-93/ Nan Hu
2016 Moving forward: Self-driving vehicles in China, Europe, Japan, Korea, and the United States. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/driverless-cars-3-ed.pdf Nan Hu
2017 CEA-LIST Interactive Simulation Laboratory in France develops a "miniature haptic interface for the fingertips." This interface is intended for use with VR devices. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7989971/ Albert Enyedy