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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)
ENIAC was the earliest electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. In 1942, physicist John Mauchly proposed an all-electronic calculating machine. Meanwhile, The U.S. Army needed to calculate complex wartime ballistics tables. The proposal met patron.
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ARPANET of invention and development
○ Licklider was appointed head of the Behavioral Science and Command and Control Program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
○ ARPANET of invention and development is a project
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Creation of the Computer Science Network
The Computer Science Network (CSNET) was a computer network that began operation in 1981 in the United States. Its purpose was to extend networking benefits, for computer science departments at academic and research institutions that could not be directly connected to ARPANET, due to funding or authorization limitations. It played a significant role in spreading awareness of, and access to, national networking and was a major milestone on the path to development of the global Internet. -
Development of Lotus 1-2-3
Lotus Development Corporation was founded by Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs in 1982. They released their development of Lotus 1-2-3 in January 1983. This software combined several function into one application, such as spreadsheet, charting and graphing, and basic database operations. It is a unique project and it is first time to release these functions in one application. The founders planned this project and it was well scheduled to be released in January 1983. -
The Internet Toaster
John Rornkey was requested by Dan Lynch, President of the Interop to connect a toaster to the internet and displayed it in 1990 Interop show. John Rornkey worked with his friend- Simon Hackett and they successfully connected an Automatic Radiant Control Toaster to the Internet with TCP/IP networking. There is one control to turn on the power and the darkness of the toast was controlled by how long the power was kept on. -
The first internet refrigerator (AI).
In June 2000, LG launched the world’s first internet refrigerator, the Internet Digital DIOS. The purpose is to provide a new technology that makes people's daily lives more convenient. The particularity of the smart refrigerator is the connection with the Internet. -
Facebook
It was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and the purpose of the project was to get connected with friends and family who are staying in other countries with the help of internet. Facebook was initially for connecting to friends and family but now it’s used to trade and create events, we can see that there was uniqueness in the starting days.(Carlson, "At Last -- The Full Story Of How Facebook Was Founded", 2010, p. par 1 -
SETI@home classic (old platform)
○ Hosted by the Berkeley Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, the project uses Internet-connected computers to search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
○ SETI@home is a project
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“Yahoo World Cup search” in China
Alibaba Yahoo launched the world's first vertical search project for the World Cup, “Yahoo World Cup search” in 18th May, 2006. It was reported that this is the first time that search technology had been introduced into the sports field. Yahoo was the only official online partner of FIFA. The Yahoo World Cup website in China maintained information sharing with FIFA and leveraged Yahoo's global website resources to fully display the content related to the World Cup. -
Spotify
Spotify was launched by Daniel Ek and Martin lorentzon the purpose of the project was to give live streaming with the help on internet. It was uniqueness as it is online streaming application. ("History of Spotify: how the Swedish streaming company changed the music industry", 2018, par 10) -
The Google self-driving car project (AI)
The Google self-driving car project is led by Sebastian Thrun. There were seven driverless cars were tested by google engineers in several main roads in California. These cars used cameras, Radar sensors and laser to check the road status and also used internet technology such as google detailed map to navigate. It is unique since the project is an innovation. It is well planned by Sebastian Thrun and other google engineers. It is detail scheduled to conduct on Apr.20, 2009. -
National Data Exchange
The National Data Exchange project was implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and aimed to share current crime data by building on the FBI’s service-oriented architecture with secure entry through the existing Law Enforcement Online Web portal. The project ran for four years and ended in 2010 and was given a budget approximately $100 million USD. -
Wild me
Wild Book is an open sourced-project created by Wild Me, a non-profit wildlife research organisation. The project was sponsored by Microsoft via their project grant process. Development began in 2010 with the first trial product becoming available on 17th of June. The first official version was completed a year later on 6th of June 2011. -
Transport for London
Transport for London (TfL) carried out a project between 21st November and 19th December 2016 to track and analyse how users use the London Underground public transport service. TfL collected the data from the general public’s smartphones, laptops, and tablets, when they were connected to the London Underground’s Wi-Fi hotspots. The hotspots would then collect the unique MAC address of each device and store the data as encrypted hashers, to protect against potential hackers. -
iPhone X
iPhone x was released on November 3, 2017,
iPhone X is powered by Apple’s latest A11 Bionic chipset which has a Neural Engine for machine learning and AI processing. The neural engine enables the iPhone X to have a facial recognition system (Face ID) which is more secure than a fingerprint scanner and offers improved voice recognition for Siri. -
Starlink (satellite based broadband network)
Development began in 2015. End date of the project is by the mid-2020s
Project description:
Starlink is a satellite constellation development project by SpaceX. The target is to develop new space-based Internet communication system with a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and requisite customer ground transceivers. The system consists 4,425. -
Human Brain Project (AI)
○ One of the two largest science projects funded by the European Union to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing. The project is expected to be delivered in 10 years.
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Blue brain project
The mission of this project was to reverse the system of human brain and to create it back in smaller level which a computer can simulate it. The project was founded by Henry Markram.
Goal:-”Goals of the project are to gain a complete understanding of the brain and to enable better and faster development of brain disease treatments” ("blue brain", 2012, par1)
