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# Birth of HCI
ENIAC (one of the first programmable, electronic computers) 1946, and the first six programmers: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Meltzer, Fran Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman

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DEC PDP-8 and TI 980 (1960’s), PDP-8 is an octal computer (switches in three-bit configurations), TI 980 is a hexadecimal machine (4-bit configuration). Not interactive

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Batch processing using punch cards, still not interactive (1950s -1970s)

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IBM System/360 (mainframe computer in the 70s), Altair 8800 (one of the first home computers)

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visicalc (Dan Bricklin 1979), and Apple II (1977)

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Sutherland, Ivan Edward (January 1963). "Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system, MIT press.

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Sutherland, Ivan Edward (January 1963). "Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system, MIT press.

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1968 - “The Sword of Damocles” Sutherland, Ivan Edward (1968), “A head-mounted three dimensional display”

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1968 - “The Sword of Damocles” Sutherland, Ivan Edward (1968), “A head-mounted three dimensional display”

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1968 - “The Sword of Damocles” Sutherland, Ivan Edward (1968), “A head-mounted three dimensional display”

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“The Mother of All Demos”, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) at (ACM/IEEE) Computer Society's Fall Joint Computer Conference See full demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

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“Dynabook” Alan C. Kay. (1972), “Personal Computer for Children of All Ages”

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Apple Newton (1993) and Apple iPad (2010)

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Graphical User Interface supporting “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG), the Desktop metaphor (files, folders, etc.), Xerox Parc/Xeroc Star

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Graphical User Interface supporting “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG), the Desktop metaphor (files, folders, etc.), Xerox Parc/Xeroc Star

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1992/93 - IBM Simon First smartphone Phone, pager, calculator, address book, fax machine, and e-mail device

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Ramesh Raskar, Greg Welch, Matt Cutts, Adam Lake, Lev Stesin and Henry Fuchs (1998) "The Office of the Future : A Unified Approach to Image-Based Modeling and Spatially Immersive Displays,"

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1981 - Steve Manns’s “Wearable Computing” Start of a series of prototypes for wearable computing, cyborgs, and mediated reality (-> Google Glass) www.wearcam.org, www.eyetap.org

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Nokia N95 (2007) and Apple iPhone (2007)

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Major innovations in HCI (Myers 1998)

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