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Nick Holonyak Jr., an American engineer at General Electric, invented the first visible light-emitting diode (LED). LEDs are used today both in computer monitors as well as indicator lights. -
Invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963 to enhance the way humans interacted with computers. -
Computer programming language, "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code." Originally designed as an interactive mainframe timesharing language by John Kemeney and Thomas Kurtz in 1963 -
Robert Heath Dennard invented a one-transistor dynamic random access memory, or "DRAM." -
Established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense to enable resource sharing between remote computers (similar to the internet today)