1954 –
FORTRAN
John
Backus & IBM invent the first successful high level programming language,
and compiler, that ran on IBM 701 computers.
FORmula
TRANslation was designed to make calculating the answers to scientific and math problems easier.
1958 – Integrated Circuit
Jack
Kilby at Texas Instruments & Robert Noyce at Fairchild semiconductor
independently invent the first integrated circuits or “the chip”.
Jack
Kilby was awarded the National Medal of Science and was inducted into the
National Inventors Hall of Fame, and received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics
for his work on the integrated circuit.
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