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Howard Aiken and Grace Hooper.
The Harvard Mark I computer. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm -
Memories
Frederic Williams and Tom Kilburn. Baby and the Williams Tube turn on the memories. http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm -
The microchip
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. The integrated circuit. Otherwise known as the chip. -
Mac
Apple Lisa computer. The first computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. -
Microsoft
Microsoft Windows. Begins the friendly war with Apple. -
Pixar
Pixar is founded. Pixar was originally called the Special Effects Computer Group at Lucasfilm (launched in 1979). The group created the computer animated segments of films such as “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” and “Young Sherlock Holmes.” In 1986, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs paid 10 million dollars to Lucasfilm to purchase the Group and renamed it Pixar. Over the next decade, Pixar made highly-successful (and Oscar-winning) animated films. It was bought by Disney in 2006. -
Oak
Oak Technology is founded -
Kingstone
Kingstone is founded. -
Steve Jobs Inventions
Steve Jobs unveils the NeXT computer October 12, 1988. -
Fred Cohen Award
Fred Cohen is awarded the Information Technology Award. -
OSPF
The networking routing protocol OSPF is introduced. -
HTML
Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the high-energy physics laboratory in Geneva, develops HyperText Markup Language (HTML), giving rise to the World Wide Web. -
Microsoft invests $150million in Apple
Microsoft invests $150 million in Apple, which was struggling at the time, ending Apple’s court case against Microsoft in which it alleges that Microsoft copied the “look and feel” of its operating system. -
Wi-Fi
The term Wi-Fi becomes part of the computing language and users begin connecting to the Internet without wires. -
64-bit processor
The first 64-bit processor, AMD’s Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market -
Macbook Pro
Apple introduces the MacBook Pro, its first Intel-based, dual-core mobile computer, as well as an Intel-based iMac. Nintendo’s Wiihits the market. -
iPhone
The iPhone brings many computer functions to the smartphone. -
Windows 7 - Microsoft
Microsoft launches Windows 7, which offers the ability to pin applications to the taskbar and advances in touch and handwriting recognition, among other features. -
Facebook
Facebook announces its intentions of purchasing Instagram for 1 billion dollars in cash and stock in April 2012. -
Google - Waze
Google announces it will purchase Waze, a popular mobile social map application for $1.1Billion on June 11, 2013.
