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Machines That Think — bonus #16 answers

Theme: Machines That Think

Starting event: ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, is completed (1945)

The full timeline

1. 1837
   Pioneers

   Charles Babbage describes the Analytical Engine, a machine that could be programmed

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2. 1843
   Pioneers

   Ada Lovelace writes notes describing how a machine could be made to compute

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3. 1890
   Pioneers

   Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine is used to process a United States census

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4. 1936
   Theory

   Alan Turing describes the abstract machine that bears his name

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5. 1943
   Mainframes

   British codebreakers build Colossus to attack German ciphers

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6. 1945
   MainframesStarting event

   ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, is completed

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7. 1947
   Components

   Physicists at Bell Labs build the first working transistor

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8. 1957
   Software

   The first FORTRAN compiler is delivered, letting people program in something like English

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9. 1958
   Components

   Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit

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10. 1968
    Interfaces

    Douglas Engelbart demonstrates a computer controlled by a mouse

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11. 1969
    Software

    Work begins on Unix at Bell Labs

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12. 1971
    Components

    Intel releases the 4004, the first microprocessor sold commercially

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13. 1975
    Home Computers

    The Altair appears on the cover of Popular Electronics and starts the home computer boom

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14. 1977
    Home Computers

    Apple begins selling the Apple II

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15. 1981
    Home Computers

    IBM releases its Personal Computer

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16. 1984
    Home Computers

    Apple releases the Macintosh, with a mouse and windows on screen

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17. 1989
    Networks

    Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web at CERN

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18. 1991
    Software

    Linus Torvalds releases the first version of the Linux kernel

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19. 1997
    AI

    Deep Blue beats world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a match

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20. 2016
    AI

    AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go, a game thought beyond machines

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21. 2022
    AI

    OpenAI releases ChatGPT to the public

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