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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1969: Professor Leonard Kleinrock and his researchers sent the first host-to-host message through what would become the internet.

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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in 1954, the IBM 704 is announced. The first mass-produced computer to incorporate indexing and floating point arithmetic, it became a commercial success, with both FORTRAN and LISP were first developed for it.

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RT @MIT_CSAIL: The Turing Test was born #otd in 1950 with Alan Turing’s seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence."

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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in 1969, the first complete message via ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet, was sent successfully after a failed attempt. The team of engineers at UCLA was led by Professor Leonard Kleinrock and featured young graduate student Vint Cerf.
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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in 1996, IBM's Deep Blue premiered at the ACM Chess Challenge in a six-game match with world champion Garry Kasparov. Although Kasparov won by 4-2, he would be defeated in a rematch in 1997, which marked the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion by a computer.
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1974 TCP/IP was born, when Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn's paper describing a protocol for sending packets across networks was published: bit.ly/2QbDPpi
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1945 John von Neumann published the EDVAC paper, which became the technological basis for all modern computers & included decisions like using binary to represent numbers: bit.ly/2LT2qg7 (v/@Forbes)
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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in 1939, Gordon Bell, pioneer of modern computing, was born. His personal computer prototype bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop. Bell recently passed away. We can remember him for his role in shaping #computinghistory and today's world.
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RT @TheOfficialACM: Today let’s remember Dennis M. Ritchie, who was born #OTD in 1941. Ritchie received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. bit.ly/3yqg0p8
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: The Turing Test was born #otd in 1950 with Alan Turing’s seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence."

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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1991 the Linux kernel was publicly released by Helsinki grad student Linus Torvalds: bit.ly/3N5sfLG
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1998 @ylecun submitted a paper on “gradient-based” deep learning for document recognition.

It took more than a decade before the world finally warmed to neural networks: bit.ly/3EzX9FD
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1971 Bell Labs released the first Unix Programmer's Manual.

Download the free PDF here: bit.ly/2JH7hlS

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RT @MIT_CSAIL: Google’s TensorFlow was first released #otd in 2015.

It's been downloaded over 100 million times since.
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: #otd in 1971 Intel unveiled the first single-chip CPU. 4 bits, 16 pins & 740KHz: bit.ly/3YLCqdV
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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1947, the first transistor, a small device designed to amplify or switch electronic signals, was born at Bell Labs. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the device to replace bulky vacuum tubes.
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RT @MIT_CSAIL: Happy birthday to Wikipedia, which launched #otd in 2001.

Their homepage has changed a bit in the past 24 years.
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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in #ComputingHistory: In 1958, the United States created @DARPA in direct response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik. The urgency to reclaim technological superiority laid the groundwork for breakthroughs including the foundations of the internet.
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RT @TheOfficialACM: #OTD in 1996, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue made #computinghistory when it defeated the world’s chess champion, Gary Kasparov. This landmark victory demonstrated the power of artificial intelligence and marked a turning point in how #AI was perceived.
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RT @TheOfficialACM: Today, let’s remember Niklaus Wirth, who was born #OTD in 1934. Wirth received the 1984 #ACMTuringAward for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL. Here, he explains the importance of portability: youtu.be/DRkfqiF46MQ