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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, W. Aspray, Computing Before Computers. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1990. | Joshua Cuneo, Kunal Shah | |
1500 BC | The water clock is invented in Ancient Egypt. Stone vessels with sloping slides drip water at a near constant rate into cylindrical containers. The cylindrical containers have markings on the side to represent how much time has passed. | https://www.nist.gov/pml/walk-through-time-early-clocks | Kunal Shah | |
1440 | Johannes Gutenberg invents the Printing Press | E.L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1980. | Kunal Shah | |
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 | |
1730 | English writer Daniel Defoe suggests taking a person's pulse may be a way to detect whether they're telling the truth during questioning. | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Defoe | Jackson Baker | |
1804 | Joseph Jacquard develops an automated mechanical loom that is able to spin complex patterns using punch cards. | www.britannica.com/technology/Jacquard-loom | Matt Schueler | |
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 | |
1877 | Thomas Edison invents the phonograph by accident. | http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_phongrph_1.html | David Deisadze | |
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 | |
1892 | English physician Sir James Mackenzie develops a pen-trace polygraph for making medical measurements of a person's heart rate. | http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display?id=93324 | Jackson Baker | |
1895 | Guglielmelli Marconi invents the radio. | https://www.thoughtco.com/invention-of-radio-1992382 | David Deisadze | |
1895 | Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso uses a crude polygraph to measure a suspect's blood pressure and pulse during questioning. | http://www.polygraphia.ca/polygraph_history.html | Jackson Baker | |
1897 | 75 mm artillery gun invented | https://www.britannica.com/technology/artillery | Daniel McKay | |
1904 | Vilhelm Bjerknes theorizes weather forecasting using a mathematical model | BJERKNES, V., 1904: Das Problem der Wettervorhersage, betrachtet vom Standpunkte der Mechanik und der Physik (The problem of weather prediction, considered from the viewpoints of mechanics and physics). – Meteorol. Z. 21, 1–7. (translated and edited by VOLKEN E. and S. BRO ̈ NNIMANN. – Meteorol. Z. 18 (2009), 663–667). | Nick Benoit | |
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 Mancahttp://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1907884,00.html | |
1921 | Canadian-born psychologist John Larson invents the original polygraph while working in Berkeley, California | http://www.argo-a.com.ua/eng/history.html | Jackson Baker | |
1922 | Lewis Fry Richardson publishes "Weather Prediction using Numerical Process" | L. F. Richardson, “Weather Prediction by Numerical Process,” Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922. | Nick Benoit | |
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 | |
1950 | The earliest known electronic computer games implemented: Bertie the Brain and Nimrod | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games | Long Vu | |
1950 | The first successful weather prediction is calculated on a computer using a UNIVAC at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. | S. Whitman, “Meet the Computer Scientist You Should Thank For Your Smartphone’s Weather App,” Smithsonian Magazine, Washington D.C., 2017. | Nick Benoit | |
1950 | John T. Mullin spreads the use of multitrack recordings. | http://www.soundrecordinghistory.net/history-of-sound-recording/multitrack-recording-history/ | David Deisadze | |
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 | |
1961 | First widespread computer game developed: SpaceWar! | https://www.jesperjuul.net/thesis/2-historyofthecomputergame.html | Long Vu | |
1961 | Unimate, an industrial production robot, was first used on a General Motors line. | https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/george-devol-a-life-devoted-to-invention-and-robots | Matt Schueler | |
1961 | Shakey, the world's first mobile robot, was developed at the Stanford Research Institute. | http://www.ai.sri.com/shakey/ | Matt Schueler | |
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 http://www.robothalloffame.org/inductees/03inductees/unimate.html | Cory Brolliar & Matthew LeMay | |
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 | |
November 1963 | Rosen, a researcher at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, envisioned a roboperson driven by neural networks, algorithms that mimic the human brain. | https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/space-age/sri-shakey-robot-honored-as-ieee-milestone | Matthew LeMay | |
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 | |
1969 | ARPANET is created when four Universities computers interconnected with one another. | https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html | Derek Murphy | |
1969 | First man on the moon. | https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html | Michael Antonelli | |
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 | |
1971 | Retired US Army officers develop a speech-sampling machine called a Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE), which attempts to detect lies from the falterings and hesitations | http://www.argo-a.com.ua/eng/history.html | Jackson Baker | |
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 | |
1973 | University College of London (England) and Royal Radar Establishment (Norway) connect to ARPANET | https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html | Derek Murphy | |
1975 | ANIMAL could be the first Trojan horse virus. | http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/animal.html | Xiaojun Wang | |
1979 | Meteorologists at the European Center for Medium-Range Forecasting begin using a 51 prediction ensemble weather forecasting model. | P. Lynch, "The origins of computer weather prediction and climate modeling," Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 227, (7), pp. 3431-3444, 2008. | Nick Benoit | |
1979 | Sony Corp releases the portable cassete player, Sony Walkman | http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1907884,00.html | David Deisadze | |
1983 | A "network of networks" is created, the foundation of the modern internet | http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-internet/, http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet | Ethan Schutzman, Kunal Shah | |
1983 | TCP/IP was released and ARPANET officially switched to TCP/IP and this created more standardized way for computers to interact | http://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml | Derek Murphy | |
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 | 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 | Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is enacted by the US Government | https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-ccips/legacy/2015/01/14/ccmanual.pdf | Juan Chávez Guerrero | |
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 | Robert T.Morris created the first worm virus | http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/morris-worm.html , https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/405/morris-worm-affected-computer-security-lessons-learned/100954 | Xiaojun Wang, Juan Chávez Guerrero | |
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 | World.st.com becomes first commercial provider of dial-up access to the Internet. | https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html | Derek Murphy | |
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 | A volcano-exploring robot named Dante explored a volcano in Alaska, falling over after just over a week inside the volcano, but surviving the encounter. | http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-07/news/mn-24572_1_robot-explorer | Matt Schueler | |
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 | |
1994 | Chinook, declared Man-Machine World Champion in draughts in 1994, became first computer program to win world championship title against human | http://www.techworld.com/picture-gallery/data/six-times-ai-has-beaten-humans-in-competitions-3636755/ | Long Vu | |
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 | |
1997 | Kismet was programmed to have the same basic motivations as a 6-month-old child. | http://www.roboticstoday.com/robots/kismet | Matthew LeMay | |
1998 | SixDegree was the first social media site launched to connect people over the internet | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full | Kenedi Heather | |
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's | NOAA uses IBM's Blue and White supercomputers to process millions of live data points from hundreds of weather stations around the globe to produce over 100,000 predictions per day. | B. Handwerk, “Faster Supercomputers Aiding Weather Forecasts,” National Geographic News, 2005. | Nick Benoit | |
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 | |
2000 | Honda reveals the ASIMO humanoid robot. | https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/honda-using-experimental-asimo-for-disaster-research | Matthew LeMay | |
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 | David Deisadze |
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 | |
2003 | MySpace was launched to connect bands to their fans | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full | Kenedi Heather | |
2004 | Facebook is live! Originally created to connect University students, quickly gained popularity | https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html | Derek Murphy, Juan Chávez Guerrero, Kenedi Heather | |
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 | |
2010 | Instagram was launched to connect people through pictures | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full | Kenedi Heather | |
2011 | John Deere Releases GreenStar system for farmers | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.wpi.edu/document/1566333/ | Ally Howell | |
2011 | Snap-chat was launched to allow people to share what they are doing through pictures | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00393.x/full | Kenedi Heather | |
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 | |
2012 | US Government launches its first cyberattack targeted to Iran nuclear facilities | http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2567&context=faculty_scholarship | Juan Chávez Guerrero | |
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 | |
2013 | Edward Snowden leaks 1.5 million US government documents | https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hpsci_snowden_review_-_unclass_summary_-_final.pdf | Juan Chávez Guerrero | |
2013 | Omate releases the "TrueSmart", the first Smart Watch to have smartphone capabilities such as voice calling | https://www.cnet.com/products/omate-truesmart/preview/ | Kunal Shah | |
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 | |
2015 | Honda begins testing ASIMO prototypes for disaster response | https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/honda-using-experimental-asimo-for-disaster-research | Matt Schueler | |
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 | |
2017 | Google's AlphaGo defeats world's best Go player Ke Jie | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/23/alphago-google-ai-beats-ke-jie-china-go | Long Vu | |
2017 | Elon Musk's startup OpenAI defeats world's best professional DOTA players | https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/11/16137388/dota-2-dendi-open-ai-elon-musk | Long Vu | |
2017 | iCub is designed to be the first flying humanoid robot. | https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/jet-powered-icub-could-be-the-first-flying-humanoid-robot | Matthew LeMay |