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This Day in Information: First Computer Science PhD
Today in 1965, Richard L.Wexelblat was the first candidate in a computer science program to complete a dissertation. Many doctorate candidates had performed computer-related work, but Wexelblat’s diploma, presented by the University of Pennsylvania, was the first one to carry … Continue reading
This Day in Information: Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
Today in 1864, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) gave Alice Liddell a handwritten manuscript titled “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground,” with his own illustrations. It was published a year later as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and has never been out of … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: World of Warcraft Launched
Today in 2004, Blizzard Entertainment released World of Warcraft on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. Last month it announced that the online game has reached 12 million subscribers. Strategy Analytics estimates that the market for massively multiplayer online … Continue reading
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TDII Extra: Novell Buying and Selling
Today in 1994, Novell acquired WordPerfect and Quattro Pro in an attempt to compete with Microsoft’s word processing and spreadsheet products. Continuing to lose market share, Novell sold the products to Corel in January 1996. Today it was announced that … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: Catmul’s Law
Fifteen years ago today, Toy Story opened in U.S. theaters, the first feature-film to be made entirely with computer-generated imagery (CGI). The current issue of ACM Queue magazine features Ed Catmul, President of Pixar Animation Studios, talking with Stanford computer … Continue reading
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This Day In Information: World TV Day
Today is World Television Day. On 21 and 22 November 1996 the United Nations held the first World Television Forum, “where leading media figures met under the auspices of the United Nations to discuss the growing significance of television in … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: First Sighting of Hackers
Today in 1963, the MIT student newspaper reported that many telephone services have been curtailed “because of so-called hackers,” the earliest known use of the term.
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This Day in Information: First Dated Book Printed in English
Today in 1477, William Caxton published Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers. It was the first dated book printed in English. It contains not only the date, but for the first time in England, a printer’s colophon showing the name … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: The Beatles on iTunes
Fake Steve Jobs on today’s significance. But the money quote (his term) came yesterday, about the Facebook “this is not email” annoucnement: “This, we are told, is the future of messaging. All of these feeds (IMs, SMS, email) streamed into … Continue reading
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This Day in Information: The Literary Cabinet and the College Bully
Today in 1806, The Literary Cabinet, an eight-page biweekly, was first published at Yale, with the goal of raising money to assist self-supporting students. It lasted only until October 1807 but it may have been the first college magazine in … Continue reading
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