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Some important discoveries and inventions for computer science in the 1960s.
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Early computer game, inspired other games, open source code ported to other programmers and ported to different computers. Steve Russell, MIT -
Remains the dominant basis for data communication between networks. Paul Baran, RAND Corporation (independently invented by Donald Davies, NPL in 1965) -
Developed to make programming accessible for students who were not scientists or mathematicians. Influenced Visual Basic. Thomas E Kurtz and John George Kemeny (pictured), Dartmouth College -
Hard disk for storing information before CDs and Flash drives, no longer in use except for the Save button on many apps today. Alan Shugart, IBM. -
Demonstrated many facets of modern computing, such as the mouse, windows, email, word processing. Douglas Engelbart, Stanford.
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