1971
11 Aug 1971

Bob Thomas

The most important feature of a computer virus is its ability to self-replicate (in a sense every self-replicating program can be called a virus). The idea of self-replicating programs can be traced back as early as 1949 when the mathematician John von Neumann envisioned specialized computers or self-replicating automata, that..Read More

09 Sep 1971

Ray Tomlinson

Raymond (Ray) Samuel Tomlinson (born 1941 in Amsterdam, New York, died in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on 5 March 2016) is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (the oldest technological university in the USA) and a long-time employee of the company Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, which had won the contract to create..Read More

12 Oct 1971

Murray Turoff

In 1971 Murray Turoff (born in San Francisco, on 13 February 1936), a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Physics from Brandeis University, while working in the U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness (a federally coordinated system that augments the Nation’s..Read More

02 Nov 1971

Michael Hart (Project Gutenberg)

At the beginning of the 1970s came a time, which was dreamed of by the pioneers like Herbert Wells in his World Brain and Paul Outlet in his Universal Network for Information and Documentation. Time to establish something like a giant world library, which contains all human knowledge and is easily accessible all over the world. If..Read More

1972
01 Dec 1972

Daniel Alroy

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Daniel Alroy, a round‐faced man with thinning, sandy hair from New York, was responsible for steering Philips, Appel & Walden Co., a successful underwriter of high‐technology stocks, into the fastest growing segment of the computer industry and has proved a good judge of..Read More

22 Dec 1972

Butler Lampson

The Xerox Alto computer, developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in 1972, was a remarkable machine. The Alto greatly influenced the design of personal computers in the following decades, notably the Macintosh and the first Sun workstations. It was not a commercial product, but several thousand units were..Read More

1973
22 Jan 1973

François Gernelle

It is a difficult task to define the term personal computer, but one of the popular definitions is containing the following criteria: • small, stand-alone • general purpose • advanced microelectronics technology (microprocessor) • operated by a single individual, interactively • no requisite computer training • affordable by an individual or..Read More

11 May 1973

Mers Kutt

It was in April of 1972 when the USA company Intel Corp. announced its first 8-bit microprocessor, the 8008. In just a few months, the prototypes of the first general-purpose computers powered by the 8008 chip were already working on-site at Réalisations et Études Électroniques in Paris and at Micro..Read More

15 May 1973

An Wang

Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded (with $15000) in June 1951 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Dr. An Wang (1920-1990). An Wang emigrated from China in 1945 (he became a US citizen in 1954) and had gotten Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from 1945 to 1948 at Harvard...Read More

19 Sep 1973

Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn (TCP/IP)

The most popular network protocol in the world, the TCP/IP protocol suite, was designed in the first half of the 1970s by two DARPA scientists—Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, persons most often called the fathers of the Internet. inton Gray “Vint” Cerf (born 23 June 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut)..Read More

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