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Alan Turing proposes the Turing test to evaluate if a computer could exhibit intelligence indistinguishable from that of a human. Originally known as the imitation game, the Turing test has been enormously influential on the field of artificial intelligence (AI). -
Grace Hopper finished the A-0, an early computer compiler for the UNIVAC I. The compiler translated mathematical notations in written in English into machine language. Compilers have led to the development of many modern programming languages. -
MIT Researchers introduced direct keyboard input to computers, prior to this users used punched cards or paper tape to input data. This was the precursor to today’s computer keyboards. -
Fortran, a programming language, was developed by John Backus and team at IBM. Fortran was widely used for scientific and technical computing and is still in use today. -
John McMCarthy at MIT invents Lisp, a programming language originally developed as mathematical notation for computer programs and is today still used in artificial intelligence and machine learning.