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Tens of thousands of people play it, and the computer wins at least 90% of the games.Edward U. Condon designs the computer for the Westinghouse display.
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homas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann file a patent for a "cathode ray tube amusement device."
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Claude Shannon lays out the basic guidelines for programming a chess-playing computer in an article, "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess.
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A. S. Douglass creates OXO (a game known as noughts and crosses in the United Kingdom and tic-tac-toe in the United States)
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Programmers at New Mexico's Los Alamos laboratories, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, develop the first blackjack program on an IBM-701 computer.
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the long tradition of military wargaming enters the computer age when the U.S. military military designs Hutspiel.
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Arthur Samuel demonstrates his computer checkers program, written on an IBM-701, Six years later the program defeats a checkers master.ional television.
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Alex Bernstein writes the first complete computer chess program on an IBM-704 computer—a program advanced enough to evaluate four half-moves ahead.
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Willy Higinbotham creates a tennis game on an oscilloscope and analog computer for public demonstration at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958.
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Willy Higinbotham creates a tennis game on an oscilloscope and analog computer for public demonstration at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958.
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students at MIT create Mouse in the Maze on MIT's TX-0 computer. Users first draw a maze with a light pen, then a mouse navigates the labyrinth searching for cheese.
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MIT student Steve Russell invents Spacewar!, the first computer-based video game. Over the following decade, the game spreads to computers across the country.
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