1900 – John F. Pickering of Haiti received a US patent for his design of an airship.
1947 – Alan Turing Suggests Testing Artificial Intelligence with the Game of Chess
Computer pioneer Alan Turing suggests testing artificial intelligence with the game of chess in a lecture to the London Mathematical Society. Computers, he argued, must like humans be given training before their IQ is tested. A human mathematician has always undergone an extensive training. This training may be regarded as not unlike putting instruction tables into a machine, he said. One must therefore not expect a machine to do a very great deal of building up of instruction tables on its own.
1962 – Following the USSR, the United States put its first man into orbit. John Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 spacecraft to a successful conclusion of the mission.
1986 – Launch of Mir Space Station
The first piece of the Mir Space Station is launched. With 6 docking ports and labs for research, the Space Station was expected to push us into the stars. The term “Mir” is Russian for “Peace”.
2004 – Apple’s first iPod Mini arrived in Apple retail stores and online. It was the first size variation of the iPod.
2013 – Sony announced the PlayStation 4 without giving out price or even showing what the hardware would look like.
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