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December 5, 1965: First Computer Science Degree: Richard Wexelblat

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1965 – Richard Wexelblat was the first candidate to complete his doctoral dissertation, hence giving him a degree in “Computer Science“. It was presented at the University of Pennsylvania – Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Richard went on to write the “History of Programming Languages” (ISBN:0-12-745040-8)

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May 31, 2006: The Pirate Bay Raided, Swedish Political Party Increased

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2006 – Swedish police raid the host of the Pirate Bay BitTorrent. On the same day, the Pirate Bay political party increased their numbers by 500, with an additional 930 joining the following day.

The site stayed down for 3 days, but came back to double the traffic due to the media coverage.

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January 7, 1943: Nikola Tesla Passed Away

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Born in 1856, Nikola Tesla was the inventor of alternating current. Tesla even worked for Edison from 1882 to 1886. He then started the Tesla Electric Light & Manufacturing company in where he worked more on AC electricity.

This started the “War of Currents”, which we talked about on January 3rd when Edison electrocuted Topsy, the Elephant.

Tesla was also known for many patents and inventions, including the Tesla coil, Electro-magnetic motor, incandescent electric light, electric railway system and many more. He was known for X-Rays, radio, the remote control and wireless communications.

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January 7, 1943: Nikola Tesla Passed Away

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This started the “War of Currents”, which we talked about on January 3rd when Edison electrocuted Topsy, the Elephant.

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December 5, 1965: First Computer Science Degree: Richard Wexelblat

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May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Swedish Political Party Increased

Jeffrey Powers @geekazine 70th anniversary, army, building, chief consultant, chief engineer, computer eniac, Construction, electrical engineering, electronic, electronic numerical integrator, electronic numerical integrator and computer, ENIAC, geek history, history, j presper eckert, john mauchly, john presper eckert, microsoft office xp, Moore School of Electrical Engineering, pirate bay, Podcast, police raid, project px, radio tubes, s moore, steve jobs, stitcher, subroutines, swedish police, technology history, United States Army, university of pennsylvania, World War II 0 Comments May 31, 2018

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The site stayed down for 3 days, but came back to double the traffic due to the media coverage.

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May 31, 1943: Construction on ENIAC Begins

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1943– The building of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) begins at the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering. The Army financed the project during World War II, which cost almost $500,000. John Mauchly was the chief consultant and John Presper Eckert was the chief engineer.ENIAC was code named “Project PX”. The consent to build was signed on June 5. ENIAC was completed on February 14, 1946. This was a modular computer, designed in “panels”. You could build to suit. Of course, this machine was so big, it took up whole rooms. It ran hot, too – using Octal based radio tubes. ENIAC could be programmed to perform complex sequences of operations, including loops, branches, and subroutines.

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