July, 2001 Diablo Blue Page 13
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3. Software language first used in 1960
6. Software language first used in 1957
7. In 1946 John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert completed building this machine
8. The first of these computers were delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau in 1951 by the Remington Rand Corporation.
9. IBM user group that met for the first time in 1955.
10. He began working on Plankalkul (Plan Calculus) in 1945 (2 words)
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1. Term coined in 1948 by Norbert Wiener (from a Greek word for steersman)
2. Computer that debuted on Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" television series in 1951.
4. In 1962 MIT students Slug Russell, Shag Graetz, and Alan Kotok wrote this first interactive computer game
5. In 1961 this first industrial robot, began work at General Motors.
9. The first large-scale computer communications network linked hundreds of radar stations in the United States and Canada in 1958.
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About the July Crossword Puzzle by Craig Peterson, DVPC Librarian |
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One of the nicest things to do on Independence Day is to study the history of this county and what forces helped turn a group of colonies into a nation asking only to be free. Boston (at tea time), Philadelphia, and Valley Forge are both popular and filled with things to see and do. A more recent revolution, the digital one, also has a past that is interesting. Check out this month's puzzle for the people and places that helped us get to where we are now.