| Date | Technology | Event | Popular Culture | Comments |
| A Big Picture of timelines | World History: HyperHistory Online navigates through 3,000 years of World History | The Info Scout from the University of Wisconsin is useful to me. | ||
| February 14, 1946 | ENIAC (U. Pennsylvania) | 1997 the Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, celebrates its 50 year anniversary, closely tied to the first computer. ACM is the International Professional Society of computer science | ||
| January 10, 1951 | Wendy Christine Beard is born | My father (Lt. Col. W.O. Beard) was at Chosin Reservoir, Korea. Attention paid to this Forgotten War a few years ago reminded me of my 50th birthday. | ||
| July 1955 | Disneyland Opens | |||
| Spring 1969 | ARPAnet is born (UCLA) | Centeniel of
Golden Spike Transcontinental Railroad
Ref: Irving Stone's "Men to Match my Mountains" (Doubleday, 1956) |
Kris Beard is Vista High School graduate, on to be math major at UCSD | |
| 1978 | Kris builds Z80 Microcomputer Kit Email: qb30087@calstate.bitnet (CSU Cyber) |
SDSU Masters Project | "Pirates of Silicon Valley" 1999 TNT Movie describes this era. Perhaps we will critically watch next week. | Numerical Analysis in BASIC, from SCRUNCH available from GAMS/NIST |
| 1979 | NASA space craft Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter, returns pics of
Red Spot
JPL ref;
Stewart joins Math Software team at JPL, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena,
w MS in Computer Science
Internet access to email at JPL |
|||
| 1981 | Math Software with Cleve Moler, University New Mexico, witness to MATLAB birth |
Stewart starts work on the PhD at the U of New Mexico, Albuquerque | ||
| 1984 | Stewart returns to SDSU as Asst. Prof. in Numerical Analysis, NADigest post on NA course #'s | Apple Ads, look at 1984 Movie shown during the U.S. Superbowl 1984. mp4 txt | Stewart works to include computing in numerical analysis curriculum | |
| 1993 | NSF funds
STEP at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (1993-1997)
www.sdsc.edu/GatherScatter/gsfall94/gsfall_a8.html Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program [GatherScatter Fall94] |
WikiP Timeline of Web Browsers Full WikiPedia article Part1of4 good video story from Internet Archive |
Stewart introduces high school science teachers to computational science by workshops at SDSC. | |
| Spring 1994 | Stewart's Web Page stewart.sdsu.edu - first faculty home page at SDSU | Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave Letterman mp4 txt | STEP teachers jumped onto the use of the WWW | |
| March 1998 | vBNS Internet2 NSF Award#9729574
High speed network access acquired for SDSU campus |
Kris is co-PI NSF grant; 6 projects | Seismic Cubes, Remote Sensing & GIS, Data Mining, Electron Microscope, SORTIE, ECCSE | Calculate opt. file transfer depending on connection; 3GB takes 5 hours on T1 |
| June 2000 |
Map the Human Genone timeline, 1984-2004; "Working Draft" of Human Genome announced June 2000 |
Cure for MS? Annette Funicello and I sure hope so. | Ken Polsson's WebWorld, Polsson's Chronology of PCs, Polsson's Chron of Walt Disney Co | Author (Who?) Who made available? (Where?) Copyright (When?) |
| PBS explains computers to public | machine that changed the world WGBH, BBC, ACM, NSF, UNISYS | Triumph of the NERDS PBS Bob Cringely | Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History of the Internet (1998) [WayBack] | Atlas of Cyber Spaces Historial Maps of Computer Networks [WayBack] |
| Computer Museum and student timeline |
Computer History Online Exhibits, Computer History Museum,
1401 N Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043. | 5th Grade Student Project by Lily | ARPANet Sept '69 drawing |
There will be more items added to this timeline, as happens with many resources on the Web. I hope you find these links useful, but please keep in mind that the dynamic nature of the Web requires constant vigilence to keep the resources up to date. Let's Explore Using this GMCS 422 lab and be sure to save your bookmarks
Web Search engine. My favorite for the past few years has been
GOOGLE.COM, since their algorithm
to provide searching capabilities usually returns a selection of links
that seems to match what I "thought" I was looking for.
