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Group: CAD

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MIT Numerically-Controlled Milling Machine Project (NCMM)

MIT's (the world's?) first Operating System

Categories:

Articles, Operating Systems

"Gestalt Programming" - Fixing up Whirlwind...

First ATLAS launch pad being built at Cape Canaveral

APT Project (Automatically Programmed Tools) for numerical control

First on-line keyboard input to Whirlwind. (Pre Teager's Pre-CTSS work)

Language features from APT to AED

Test of LISP for CAD use: Point-Line Diagrams with Constraints

APT's MIT ARELEM proves Plex modeling (and improves APT)

CAD project begins

Modeling Plex roots for AED in APT

Project transition from APT to CAD

Doug Ross supervised the first Electronic CAD SM and first 3D CAD SM theses

AED (Automated Engineering Design) language development starts.

The "Bootstrap Compiler" to program AED-0 Compiler (ESL's Computer Applications Group, CAG, had no prior compiler experience, APT notwithstanding!)

The first software engineering language

Categories:

Programming Languages, Programming Methodology and Design, Computer Aided Design

New Algorithmic Theory of Language (ATL) to support user languages and compiler development

The Bootstrap Language Features

Invitations to AED Cooperative Program issued

AED Applications part 1

AED Applications part 2

AED Applications part 3

The deep CAD Project/Project MAC collaboration starts

AED Applications part 4

AED Applications part 5

Basis of CAD system.

CAD console facilities.

CAD requirements published

SJCC session on MIT CAD work included the following five papers in the Proceedings of AFIPS 23:

Categories:

Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics

October 23 first AED run at MAC

First Coons Surface Patch launches modern computer graphics geometry

Integrated Packages extend Algol base of AED

First CTSS console in a private home.

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