1904 – Computer Pioneer George
Stibitz Born
While at
Bell Labs, George Stibitz pioneers the principles of relay-based computing. His
original design, the “Model K,” was a binary adder that was named after its
place of original design, Stibitz’s kitchen table. The “Model K” and Stibitz’s
further research formed the groundwork for Bell Labs’ Complex Number
Calculator, which was the first remotely accessed computer via a Teletype
machine. He later pursued his research interests at Dartmouth College as a
member of its faculty. Stibitz passed away in 1995.
1916 – Information Theory
Pioneer Claude Shannon Born
Claude
Shannon is born in Gaylord, Michigan. Known as the inventor of information
theory, Shannon is the first to use the word “bit.” Shannon, a contemporary of
John von Neumann, Howard Aiken, and Alan Turing, sets the stage for the
recognition of the basic theory of information that could be processed by the
machines the other pioneers developed. He investigates information distortion,
redundancy and noise, and provides a means for information measurement. He
identifies the bit as the fundamental unit of both data and computation.
1939 – RCA began regularly scheduled
television service in New York City, with a telecast of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt opening the New York World’s Fair. Programs were transmitted from
mobile camera trucks to the main transmitter, which was connected to an aerial
atop the Empire State Building. The broadcasting division of RCA was called the
National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
1993 – World Wide Web Transferred to Public Domain
You may
see www, but it’s true meaning in World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee wrote
WorldWideWeb during the 1990, while working for CERN. He did it on a NeXT
Computer and developed it for the NeXTSTep platform (which Apple bought and
turned into Mac OS X). But it was today that was most momentous, as the World
Wide Web entered in the public domain. That meant anyone could access without
license fees. Now a person could apply style sheets or post media on the web.
The initial web browser was also the web editor.
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