Today in Tech History – July 8

1908 – Charles Urban demonstrated Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion-picture process, at a scientific meeting in Paris attended by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.

1946 – Penn Launches a Special Computer School

             The University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering launched an inspiring summer school on computing that stimulated construction of stored-program computers at universities and research institutions. This free, public set of lectures inspired the EDSAC, BINAC, and later, IAS machine clones like the AVIDAC.

1957 – Control Data Corporation Founded

             Control Data Corporation, an early pioneer in the field of supercomputers, is incorporated. CDC’s most notable employee was Seymour Cray, who during the 1960’s developed for CDC the fastest computers in the world at the time. However, in 1972 Seymour Cray left CDC to form his own company, Cray Research, which then took the title of creating the world’s fastest computers.

2007 – The Big DNS Flaw

             In 2007, developer Dan Kaminsky found a flaw in the addressing of the Domain Name System, or DNS. DNS is found on home to commercial routers around the world. The issue was so severe, that they were not divulging the issue until a patch could be implemented on a wide scale. On March 31^st, Kaminsky - along with 16 other developers – gathered at Microsoft to work on a massive patch and synchronize the release so all details could be released as well. The Patch was released in July 8^th, 2008.

2011 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on the final Space Shuttle mission.

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