Call

The History of CALL

By Maslichah

  • The first demonstration of a communication of dataat a distance between New York and Hanover is achieved by Stibitz and Williams

  • Bush publishes a brief paper : "Memoranding regarding Memex", in which he describesthe target audience for his plans

  • Norbert Wiener, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Julian Bigelow publish "Behavior Purposeand Teleology" in Philosophy of Science

  • HIXON Symposium (Calthec) first expression of the divergence between the first andthe second definition of Cybernetics: science of control and/or science of autonomy.

  • Development of the military network SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment)

  • Hardware : Development of the UNIVAC: a fast printer.

  • The first computer to be sold on a large scale is the IBM 650.

  • First commercial network and first database SABRE (Semi AutomaticBusiness Related Environment) by IBM

  • Birth of the first magnetic disc: the RAMAC 305 (again by IBM).

  • FORTRAN (Formula Translating) is born,

  • Development of ARPA, the (Advanced Research Projects Agency) is born in USA

  • COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) is born.

  • CALL was started from PLATO project

    CALL was started from PLATO project

  • The Stony Brook "Experiment" in New York gathers speed.

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    The History of CALL

  • Douglas Engelbart starts introducing the notions of interactivity, interface and the mouse

  • the arrival of PC (personal computer)

    the arrival of PC (personal computer)
    he history of CALL was started from PLATO project, initiated at the University of Illinois. This is an important landmark in the early of CALL.

  • MITRE submits a proposal to the National Science Foundation to develop the TICCITsystem

  • TICCIT Project. Development of hardware, software, courseware and ancillary materials

  • Initial testing of TICCIT courseware begins at NorthernVirginia Community College and Phoenix College.

  • Full-scale use of TICCIT Maths and English begins at BYU

  • TICCIT is evaluated by the Educational Testing Service along with the University of Illinois PLATO System.

  • Dr. Frank Otto begins development of an English as a Second Language course

  • Creation of foreign language courseware using the TICCIT rule

  • practices associated with programmed instruction.

  • Leech & Candlin (eds) publish Computers in ELT andResearch,

  • Rex Last appointed Professor of Modern Languages

  • Dr.Duncan Macrae-Gibson creates course of Old English

  • Gavin Bell ran a course for several years on Basic programming

  • Publication of CALL.workshop at Jordanhill College of Education by John Higgins

    Publication of CALL.workshop at Jordanhill College of Education by John Higgins

  • Digital Equipment Corporation publishes history of computer-based education.

  • Hazeltine announces MicroTICCIT,

  • CALL forms of the beginners' course designed by Gordon Burgess

  • Frank Halasz and Randall Trigg invent Notecards

  • Stewart Reid Make strong case for the widedistribution

  • Development of INTERMEDIA by a team of Brown University

  • SCETALL Conference at the University of Aberdeen on CALL

  • Five day Conference on Computers in Modern Languages

  • HyperCard was developed

  • Internet Relay Chat is designed by Jarkko Oikarinen

  • The first EUROCALL constitution is written

  • at CERN, the World Wide Web is born.

  • The email discussion group, TESL-L is founded

  • Internet hits 1million users.

  • John Higgins launches postgraduate degree course in CALL and TESOL

  • CALL components: e-mail, web for language learning,software etc

  • Beginning of TELL consortium in the UK.

  • EUROCALL conference in HULL

  • Pentium (P54C: 130 MHz) was introduced.

  • Introduction of Windows '95

  • Pennington publishes "The power of CALL".

  • First issue of the e-journal, 'Language Learning & Technology

  • The ICT4LT starts. This stands for ICT for Language Teachers

  • The Hot Potatoes was developed

  • ReCALL published by Cambridge University Press.