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Term coined by D.S. Harder (Ford) in 1946. Originally, Ford implemented assembly line machines in 1913. Japan also began using industrial manufacturing automation in the 1930s.
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Invented by Harry Stockman in 1948. RF Harrington added onto this with the idea of scattering data and information in 1963.
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Invention of robotics by George Devol.
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Newell and Simon created the first AI program in 1955.
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Earliest form (numerical-control programming system) invented by Dr. Patrick J. Hanratty. Ivan Sutherland @ MIT's Lincoln Laboratory invented Sketchpad (first computer technical drawing software) in 1960.
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Origin of VR theory by Morton Heilig.
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Defined by Arthur Samuel (IBM) in 1959.
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Origins of ERP started in the 1960s by a partnership between J.I. Case and IBM.
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EDI invented by Ed Guilbert in the 1960s.
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First AR solution (head-mounted display) developed by Ivan Sutherland.
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Origins date back to 1969 to joint venture between UCLA & Stanford to create ARPAnet.
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Invented by Chuck Hull.
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Origins date back to 1996 when Gurdeep Singh-Pall (Microsoft) created PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol).
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Concept defined and first took off after presentation by John R. Mashey in 1998.
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Officially defined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton (Proctor & Gamble).
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While cloud computing draws its origins back to ARPANET and Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, the first use of the term itself was in George Favaloro (Compaq) and Sean O'Sullivan in 1996. However, it wasn't until 2006-2007 when Cloud Computing was defined by Google and Amazon as we know it in its current state.
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Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym, real name unknown) invented Blockchain in its current form as well know it in 2008. However, the first work with cryptographic security on a chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornett.