From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Computers & the Human Brain Outline

The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing
(1839)

The "Computer" Might Occupy a Space Larger than London
(1851)

One of the Most Remarkable Human Computers
(1856)

The First Mathematical Model of a Neural Network
(1943)

The First Theoretical Description of a Stored-Program Computer
(June 30, 1945)

"As We May Think"
(July 1945)

The Illustrated Version of "As We May Think"
(September 1945)

The Macy Conferences
(1946 – 1953)

Cybernetics
(1948)

"Intelligent Machinery"
(July – August 1948)

Comparison of Computers and the Human Brain
(September 20, 1948)

The Differences between Computers and the Human Brain
(June 9, 1949)

Comparing the Functions of Genes to Self-Reproducing Automata
(September 20 – September 20, 1949)

The Turing Test
(1950)

"Can Man Build a Superman?"
(January 23, 1950)

Calculating Machines and Human Thought
(January 8 – January 13, 1951)

The Computer and the Brain
(1955)

Intelligence Amplification by Machines
(1956)

The Perceptron
(November 1958)

Human Versus Machine Intelligence and Communication
(1959)

Augmenting Human Intellect
(October 1962)

Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Hyperlink
(1965)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

WordNet
(1985)

Development of Neural Networks
(1993)

The Singularity
(January 1993)

A Computer Checkers Program Defeats the Human World Checkers Champion
(1994)

How Much Information is There?
(1997)

IBM Deep Blue Defeats Gary Kasparov
(May 11, 1997)

Using Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998)

On the Value of the History of Science in Scientific Research
(2000)

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

Minority Report
(2002)

Cortical Rewiring and Information Storage
(October 14, 2004)

From Gutenberg to the Internet
(2005)

"Computers vs. Brains"
(April 1, 2009)

The First Brain-Computer Interface Product Offered for Sale
(March 2 – March 6, 2010)