1940
Remote Computing Experiment
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Bell Laboratories, 1946
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From a teletype console in McNutt Hall on the Dartmouth campus, research
mathematician at Bell Laboratories George Stibitz demonstrated
the first remote access to a digital computer using standard phone lines.
Stibitz's mainframe, an automatic calculator located
at Bell Labs' Headquarters in New York, was the first electric digital computer
that would evolve into today's modern electronic computer. His was the first
computer to perform arithmetic operations in binary fashion, the first placed
in routine operation, and the first with either remote or multi-station
terminals.
1956
Artificial Intelligence
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George Stibitz (L) and Tom Kurtz in Kiewit Machine Room
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The term artificial intelligence (AI) was coined by Dartmouth
mathematician John McCarthy. Foundations were laid for AI
research during a two-month conference, "Dartmouth Summer Research Project on
Artificial Intelligence."
1959
First Computer
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Systems Programmers
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Dartmouth computing began in earnest with the acquisition of a rudimentary
LGP-30 computer. The creativity of "bright undergraduate students adept at
computer programming" was first revealed.
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