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Celebrating 50 Years Of PLATO
CRN Staff
Several hundred alumni of the groundbreaking PLATO program for computer-assisted learning turned up at the Computer History Museum this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of PLATO. Originated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1960, PLATO spawned touch-sensitive, gas-plasma flat-panel displays, precursors of many of today’s most popular social networking applications, a cohort of some of the greatest programmers in computing history, and much more.
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PLATO |
PLATO@50 |
Computer History Museum |
University Of Illinois |
Urbana-Champaign |
Ray Ozzie |
Microsoft |
Lotus Notes |
Donald Bitzer |
Plasma |
Gas-Plasma |
John Markoff |
CERL |
Control Data Corporation |
Gene Slottow |
Robert Wilson |
