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Event
1945
As We May Think
published
Categories:
World-Wide Web
,
Information Retrieval
,
Societal Impact
Group:
Other MIT
1949
MIT Numerically-Controlled Milling Machine Project (NCMM)
Group:
CAD
1954
First hand-drawn input to a computer
1954
MIT's (the world's?) first Operating System
Categories:
Articles
,
Operating Systems
Group:
CAD
1955
"Gestalt Programming" - Fixing up Whirlwind...
Group:
CAD
1955
Convolutional coding
Category:
Information Theory
Group:
Theory Group
1955
First ATLAS launch pad being built at Cape Canaveral
Group:
CAD
1956
APT Project (Automatically Programmed Tools) for numerical control
Group:
CAD
1956
First on-line keyboard input to Whirlwind. (Pre Teager's Pre-CTSS work)
Group:
CAD
1957
Language features from APT to AED
Group:
CAD
1959
Test of LISP for CAD use: Point-Line Diagrams with Constraints
Group:
CAD
1959
Project transition from APT to CAD
Group:
CAD
1959
CAD project begins
Group:
CAD
1959
APT's MIT ARELEM proves Plex modeling (and improves APT)
Group:
CAD
1959
Timesharing memo
Category:
Timesharing
1959
Modeling Plex roots for AED in APT
Group:
CAD
1960
Doug Ross supervised the first Electronic CAD SM and first 3D CAD SM theses
Group:
CAD
1960
First paper on Lisp
Categories:
Artificial Intelligence
,
Symbolic Manipulation
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Mathematics of Computation
,
Programming Languages
,
Lisp
Group:
Other MIT
1960
Flexowriter Interrogation Tape (FLIT) for the TX-0 Computer
Categories:
Timesharing
,
Timesharing
,
Timesharing
1960
Man Computer Symbiosis
published
Category:
Timesharing
1961
Time shared multiprocessor recommended for MIT
Category:
Timesharing
1961
DEC gives PDP 1 to Electrical Engineering Department.
Category:
Timesharing
1961
Computer utility model
Category:
Timesharing
1961
SAINT, symbolic integration program
Category:
Mathlab
1961
Steps towards artificial intelligence
published
Categories:
Artificial Intelligence
,
Articles
1961
Computer-controlled hand
Category:
Artificial Intelligence
1961
AED (Automated Engineering Design) language development starts.
Group:
CAD
1961
The "Bootstrap Compiler" to program AED-0 Compiler (ESL's Computer Applications Group, CAG, had no prior compiler experience, APT notwithstanding!)
Group:
CAD
1961
The first software engineering language
Categories:
Programming Languages
,
Programming Methodology and Design
,
Computer Aided Design
Groups:
CAD
,
Programming Systems
1961
CTSS Version 1 running on IBM 709
Category:
CTSS
1961
CTSS running on 709.
Category:
CTSS
1962
Lisp 1.5 manual
published
Category:
Lisp
1962
PDP 1 TECO text editor
Category:
Editors
1962
First paper on CTSS
Category:
CTSS
1962
First credible chess program
Category:
Artificial Intelligence
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