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Date | Description | References | Name | |
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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 | |
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 | Alberto Ramirez | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | Albert Enyedy | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Rachel Manca | |
1985 | Release of Microsoft's first operating system, Windows 1.0 | https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-first-windows | AmyBea Walder | |
1986 | National Science Foundation funds a 56Kbps cross-country network backbones | http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/History.html | Joshua Cuneo | |
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 | |
1991 | Linus Torvaldis releases the first version of the Linux Kernel. | https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_gnulinux.htm | Jordan Burklund | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | 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 | In 2001, AI beat humans in simulating financial trading competition. | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1481339.stm | Nan Hu | |
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 | |
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 | |
2007 | Apple Releases the first iPhone | https://www.thesnugg.com/a-brief-history-of-smartphones.aspx | Ethan Schutzman | |
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 | |
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 | Vanshaj Chowdhary | |
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 | |
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 |