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- | ==== Technology timeline ==== | + | ===== Technology timeline |
Sometimes it is useful to look at history, either to see how things improved (or not so), or when a tech or idea first popped up. This is an attempt to make a timeline of the most important advances in technology for historical interest. | Sometimes it is useful to look at history, either to see how things improved (or not so), or when a tech or idea first popped up. This is an attempt to make a timeline of the most important advances in technology for historical interest. | ||
- | === Computers, information processing and machine intelligence === | + | ==== Computers, information processing and machine intelligence |
- | | 1968 | "SHRDLU", an early English language parsing system connected to a physical simulator (playground) aka "block world", | + | ^ Year ^ Event ^ Importance+Links ^ |
- | | 1969 | ARPANET started | | + | | 1947 | **Transistor** invented (point-contant transistor) | Basis of electronics up to today (2017), https:// |
- | | 1973 | First cell phone | | + | | 1957 | **Fortran** language invented at IBM by John Backus | Became standard for scientific and industrial computation | |
- | | 1983 | C++ invented by Bjarne Stroustrup | | + | | 1958 | **Lisp** language invented | Based on lists (Lisp is an acronym for LISt Processing), |
- | | 1990 | First web browser written at CERN; first HTML standard was made a year before by Tim Berners-Lee | | + | | 1959 | **COBOL** language invented | Although unwieldy, the language became a standard for banking backend software and legacy systems programmed in it are still in use (albeit in decline) in 2017 | |
- | | 1991 | First public post about Linux (that time, a small hobby OS by Linus Torvalds) | | + | | 1968 | **SHRDLU**, an early English language parsing system connected to a physical simulator (playground) aka "block world", |
- | | 1992 | JPEG algorithm discovered | | + | | 1969 | **ARPANET** started |
- | | 1995 | Javascript invented by Brendan Eich | | + | | 1970 | **Pascal** language invented by Niklaus Wirth | Meant primarily for education, Pascal was widely used for many kinds of tasks before replaced (mostly by C++), and influenced most of future languages. | |
- | | 1997 | IBM "Deep Blue" computer defeats Gary Kasparov in chess | | + | | 1970 | **Forth** language invented by Charles H. Moore | Forth is interesting in that it is a stack-based language. The same technique is used in much newer virtual machines (whose assembly code is similar to Forth code), like Java VM and OpenFirmware. Original Forth compiles into very tight code, optionally without need for memory heap, and was used in small microcontrollers. | |
- | | 2001 | Wikipedia launched | | + | | 1972 | **C** language invented by Dennis Ritchie | A " |
+ | | 1973 | First **cell phone** | | ||
+ | | 1982 | **Commodore 64** released | One of the iconic 8-bit home computers/ | ||
+ | | 1983 | **C++** language | ||
+ | | 1984 | First test models of autonomous cars at Carnegie Mellon University' | ||
+ | | 1985 | **Commodore Amiga** released | One of iconic 16-bit home computers, one of the first that had hardware-supported multitasking. Become very popular among musicians, yielded lots of audiovisual demos. | | ||
+ | | 1988 | Standard for data CD's (aka **CD-ROM**) produced by Sony and Phillips (aka "The Yellow Book") | In its time, CD-ROMs were the most popular storage medium for software (especially after popularization of CD writer devices) | ||
+ | | 1990 | First **web browser** written at CERN; first HTML standard was made a year before by Tim Berners-Lee) | Birth of WWW | | ||
+ | | 1991 | First public post about **Linux** (that time, a small hobby OS by Linus Torvalds) | ||
+ | | 1991 | **Python** language invented by Guido van Rossum | Easy to write and understand, Python became widely used for various scripting, and very popular in science community thanks to its packages of scientific algorithms | | ||
+ | | 1991 | **TiVo** service launched | The first on-demand over-the-network television system | ||
+ | | 1992 | **JPEG** algorithm discovered | ||
+ | | 1992 | Jürgen Schmidhuber proposes a solution to the vanishing gradient problem | (https:// | ||
+ | | 1993 | **MP3** algorithm discovered at Fraunhofer institute | Very similarly to JPEG for images, this lossy compression algorithm for sound became de-facto standard for lower-to-medium music storage | | ||
+ | | 1994 | Started work on specification of Digital Versatile Disc (**DVD**) | Started by Sony and Phillips after resolving disputes between competing formats for storage, MMCD and SD. DVDs will replace CDs soon with their much greater capacity (approx. 4G against 720M) | | ||
+ | | 1995 | **Java** language invented at Sun Microsystems by James Gosling | Java became standard for large-scale enterprise software, replacing COBOL, and for cell phone apps (first its reduced version, Java SE, modern Android phones use full-fledged Java); it started the app boom which lasts in 2017 | | ||
+ | | 1995 | **Javascript** invented by Brendan Eich | | ||
+ | | 1995 | **eBay** founded | First worldwide buying and selling platform | | ||
+ | | 1996 | First **DVD player** (Toshiba SD-3000) | ||
+ | | 1997 | IBM "Deep Blue" computer defeats | ||
+ | | 1998 | First hardware **MP3 player** (Diamond Rio PMP300) | | ||
+ | | 2000 | **C#** invented in Microsoft | Microsoft' | ||
+ | | 2000 | First USB **Flash Drive** comes to market (as " | ||
+ | | 2000 | Term " | ||
+ | | 2001 | **Wikipedia** launched | ||
+ | | 2001 | IBM POWER2 processor launched | Probably the first **multicore CPU** (with 2 cores), will start a trend | | ||
| 2003 | WiFi 802.11g standard published (up to 54 Mbps) | | | 2003 | WiFi 802.11g standard published (up to 54 Mbps) | | ||
- | | 2004 | Facebook launched | | + | | 2003 | **iTunes** launched by Apple | Probably the most famous online music store | |
- | | 2005 | 5 autonomous cars finished the DARPA challenge of driving through a desert (year before, none did) | | + | | 2004 | **Facebook** launched |
- | | 2009 | Stack Exchange launched | | + | | 2005 | 5 autonomous cars finished the DARPA challenge of driving through a desert (year before, none did) | Important milestone for autonomous cars, marks start of a trend | |
- | | 2009 | Wolfram Alpha started | | + | | 2005 | **YouTube** launched | |
- | | 2010 | Microsoft Kinect V1 produced (face and gesture recognition, | + | | 2005 | **Google Maps** launched | |
+ | | 2005 | **Reddit** launched | | ||
+ | | 2007 | Apple presents the first **iPhone** | | ||
+ | | 2007 | **Netflix** (founded 1997) starts providing streaming video | | ||
+ | | 2008 | Apple **AppStore** launched | | ||
+ | | 2008 | OS **Android** launched for cell phones (HTC Dream) (but did not have significant popularity until 2010) | | ||
+ | | 2008 | **Github** launched | Became the most popular site for sharing coding projects | ||
+ | | 2009 | **Stack Exchange** launched | | ||
+ | | 2009 | **Wolfram Alpha** launched | An engine for computations with questions asked in natural language (https:// | ||
+ | | 2009 | **Bitcoin** | ||
+ | | 2010 | Microsoft | ||
| 2011 | GPU-trained CNN achieves superhuman performance in a traffic sign recognition contest | | | 2011 | GPU-trained CNN achieves superhuman performance in a traffic sign recognition contest | | ||
- | | 2012 | 22nm CPU die technology (Intel Ivy Bridge processors) | | + | | 2011 | IBM **Watson** AI wins Jeopardy! | The AI gained 35374 USD in comparison to human opponents (4800 USD, 10400 USD). This is important because questions in Jeopardy! are asked in natural language which the software had to analyze. | |
+ | | 2012 | **22nm** CPU die technology (Intel Ivy Bridge processors) | | ||
| 2012 | Google reports total of 500 000 km of test drives of their autonomous cars (on public roads but with two humans aboard) | | | 2012 | Google reports total of 500 000 km of test drives of their autonomous cars (on public roads but with two humans aboard) | | ||
- | | 2014 | 14nm CPU die technology (Intel Core M Broadwell, soon followed by desktop CPUs) | | + | | 2013 | Atlas robot unveiled by Boston Dynamic | Atlas is an agile bipedal humanoid whose gait was likened to a 1-year child walk by DARPA project manager. | |
- | | 2015 | Google TensorFlow published as open source | | + | | 2014 | **14nm** CPU die technology (Intel Core M Broadwell, soon followed by desktop CPUs) | For comparison, an antibody molecule is about 10 nm while a glucose molecule is about 1 nm; 14 nm is smaller than biological viruses (see https:// |
- | | 2015 | Google Photos started by Google | + | | 2015 | Google |
- | | 2016 | Google announces its " | + | | 2015 | **Google Photos** started by Google |
- | | 2016 | Google AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol in Go, receives honorary 9-dan | | + | | 2015 | Tests of **autonomous cars** permitted on public roads in Nevada, Florida, California, Michigan, some tests also ran in Germany, Netherlands, |
- | | 2017 | AI player " | + | | 2016 | Google announces its " |
- | | 2017 | AI player " | + | | 2016 | Google AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol in **Go**, receives honorary 9-dan | Go has much larger number of possible moves than chess and cannot be solved by bruteforce; even a year before, many Go masters considered Go inaccessible for computers due to crucial importance of intuition in the game | |
+ | | 2016 | AI player achieves superhuman performance in **Doom**, using only visual inputs from the game | | ||
+ | | 2016 | Adobe announces closed beta for Adobe VoCo, software for mimicking voices (" | ||
+ | | 2017 | AI player " | ||
+ | | 2017 | AI player " | ||
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+ | ==== Genetics and medicine ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ^ Year ^ Event ^ Importance+Links ^ | ||
+ | | 1953 | Double-helix DNA structure discovered by Wattson, Crick and Franklin | Beginning of modern molecular genetics | | ||
+ | | 1962 | First demonstration of neurogenesis in an adult mammal brain (Joseph Altman) | Up to this discovery it was believed that neurons are never newly created in adult brain | | ||
+ | | 1976 | Discovery that interleukin 2 (IL-2) is a growth factor that allows to cultivate T-cells in vitro | Many years later, this knowledge will be used for production of genetically modified T cells to attack tumors (aka **CAR-T**), the first and important case of immunological anti-cancer medicines | | ||
+ | | 1978 | **In-vitro fertilization** | Will give millions of couples the ability to conceive a child when normal way fails | | ||
+ | | 1985 | **PCR** (polymerase chain reaction) discovered by Karry Mullis | The very basic stone of modern genetic analysis | | ||
+ | | 1985 | fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy) first applied on a human | Used to see blood flow in various parts of the brain | | ||
+ | | 1989 | T-killer cells altered to attack a specified target | Zelig Eshar shows that T-killer immunity cells can be re-targeted to attack any other cell of choice (by replacing the targeting receptor); this is considered the start of CAR-T antitumor therapy. | | ||
+ | | 1990 | **Human genome project** officially launched | | | ||
+ | | 1992 | Functional MRI tested on humans | Allows to measure the consumption and flow of oxygen in brain (the BOLD strategy), showing what parts of the brain are in use in the moment. First test was on human visual cortex. | | ||
+ | | 1998 | **Viagra** (sildenafil) approved by FDA for erectile dysfunction | A medicine originally meant for treating hypertension proved its effect on erectile dysfunction | ||
+ | | 2001 | **" | ||
+ | | 2003 | Cause for **progeria** found | The horrible fast-aging disease is caused by a point mutation in gene for lamin A which produces scaffolding for cell nucleus (position 1824 in the LMNA gene) | | ||
+ | | 2003 | First idea of **gene drive** | A self-promoting gene or casette that spreads to offspring with extreme probability, | ||
+ | | 2003 | **Human Genome Project** officially declared successfully completed | | | ||
+ | | 2005 | " | ||
+ | | 2006 | 23andme launched | The first personal genetics web service, provides genetic analysis from saliva sample sent by mail. https:// | ||
+ | | 2006 | **Induced pluripotent cell (iPSC)** technology discovered | By Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto; yielded Nobel Prize in 2012) | | ||
+ | | 2006 | Vaccine against human papilloma virus (HPV) | | ||
+ | | 2008 | Primitive but multi-layered **brain-like organoids** grown from stem cells | By Yoshiki Sasai et al., RIKEN, Tokyo | | ||
+ | | 2011 | Price of whole-genome sequencing now at 5000 USD per genome (Illumina Inc.) | | ||
+ | | 2014 | First working fully **synthetic yeast chromosome** | The chromosome was artificially synthesized from computer-stored data that was previously read from the natural chromosome, with junk and transposons deleted (!!), still works normally (Jef Boeke et al., N.Y. University Langone Medical Center). DOI: 10.1126/ | ||
+ | | 2014 | E. coli with two extra genetic bases (called X and Y) prepared | First case of adding new bases to DNA when the extra bases are also passed to the offspring | | ||
+ | | 2014 | Emotional content of a memory engram modified by optogenetics in mouse | Emotional content of a recent memory engram in mouse was switched by optogenetic switching of neurons in the dentate gyrus (Susumu Tonegawa et al.), possibly first step in memory-modification technology. doi: | ||
+ | | 2015 | Price of whole-genome sequencing drops to 1500 USD per genome (from National Human Genome Research Institute) | | ||
+ | | 2017 | **Minified Cas9-like enzyme** from Campylobacter jejuni used in medicine | Small enough to allow building an all-in-one adenovirus-coated capsule for CRISPR-Cas9 editing in vivo; first use was a test of treatment of retinitis pigmentosa. doi: | ||
+ | | 2017 | Mouse embryo cultivated from embryonic stem cells and developed in vitro for 7 days | This is about 1/3 of mouse pregancy period, just before the embryo implants into the mother' | ||
+ | | 2017 | Atlas of long non-coding RNA sequences (with precise 5' ends) launched at RIKEN, Tokyo | doi: | ||
+ | | 2017 | FDA approves first anti-cancer drug, pembrolizumab, | ||
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+ | ==== Space Technology ==== | ||
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+ | ^ Year ^ Event ^ Importance+Links ^ | ||
+ | | 2012 | " | ||
+ | | 2014 | First landing of a probe on a comet (lander Cassini, orbiter Philae, comet 67P) | | ||
+ | | 2016 | Gravitational waves observed for the first time in LIGO laboratory | ||
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