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Technology timeline
Sometimes it is useful to look at history, either to see how things improved (or not so), or when a tech or idea first popped up. This is an attempt to make a timeline of the most important advances in technology for historical interest.
Computers, information processing and machine intelligence
1968 | “SHRDLU”, an early English language parsing system connected to a physical simulator (playground) aka “block world”, started on MIT (by Terry Winograd) |
1969 | ARPANET started |
1973 | First cell phone |
1983 | C++ invented by Bjarne Stroustrup |
1990 | First web browser written at CERN; first HTML standard was made a year before by Tim Berners-Lee |
1991 | First public post about Linux (that time, a small hobby OS by Linus Torvalds) |
1992 | JPEG algorithm discovered |
1995 | Javascript invented by Brendan Eich |
1997 | IBM “Deep Blue” computer defeats Gary Kasparov in chess |
2001 | Wikipedia launched |
2003 | WiFi 802.11g standard published (up to 54 Mbps) |
2004 | Facebook launched |
2005 | 5 autonomous cars finished the DARPA challenge of driving through a desert (year before, none did) |
2009 | Stack Exchange launched |
2009 | Wolfram Alpha started |
2010 | Microsoft Kinect V1 produced (face and gesture recognition, voice recognition and 3D image based on twin cameras); an open source driver (paid by Adafruit) allowed many useful hacks |
2011 | GPU-trained CNN achieves superhuman performance in a traffic sign recognition contest |
2012 | 22nm CPU die technology (Intel Ivy Bridge processors) |
2012 | Google reports total of 500 000 km of test drives of their autonomous cars (on public roads but with two humans aboard) |
2014 | 14nm CPU die technology (Intel Core M Broadwell, soon followed by desktop CPUs) |
2015 | Google TensorFlow published as open source |
2015 | Google Photos started by Google (project branched from Google+); its abilities to automatically classify images according to what they show is acclaimed by critics |
2016 | Google announces its “RAISR” technology for image reconstruction and upscaling (based on a neural network trained on many images that then decides which filters to use) |
2016 | Google AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol in Go, receives honorary 9-dan |
2017 | AI player “Phillip” (programmed by Vlad Firoiu, MIT) beats professional players in Super Smash Bros (but itself can for now only play for one character, Captain Falcon, due to lack of support of shooting) |
2017 | AI player “DeepStack” defeats 10 pro players in no-limits Texas Hold'em poker game (historically it is a tie with Libratus, both were developed simultanously) |
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