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| | PLATO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mainly this computer was used for management and data processing tasks related to power generation and distribution, but it also ran the PLATO software. | | | PLATO, an apronym for Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operation, was one of the first generalized Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the University of Illinois (U of I) and later taken over by Control Data (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on. | | | PLATO ran for many years at the U of I, but William Norris's plans to make it a major force in the computing world and a keystone of corporate social responsibility failed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_System
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| | Educational Technologies Timeline - Assignment 8 CI335- CTER2 |
| | PLATO was the brainchild of computer and electrical engineers at the University of Illinois' Computer-based education research laboratory (CERL). | | | The PLATO instructional computing system can truly be identified as one of the first (if not the first) computerized teaching systems used in classroom instruction, not only in college courseware but in elementary schools. | | | Today, TRO markets PLATO as a computer assisted instruction system (www.plato.com) which according to the company is "designed to enhance the learning process and help adolescent and adult learners reach their fullest potential." |
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http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/afahey/Activity8.htm
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| | The Modern History of Computing |
| | The earliest computing machines in wide use were not digital but analog. | | | In analog computers, numerical quantities are represented by, for example, the angle of rotation of a shaft or a difference in electrical potential. | | | The term computing machine, used increasingly from the 1920s, refers to any machine that does the work of a human computer, i.e. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history
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| | Plato Rising |
| | PLATO began as an instructional computing system on an enormous Control Data Corporation (CDC) mainframe computer more than 15 years ago. | | | At the U of I Medical Computer Lab, Vince was involved in the development in 1976 of the first minicomputer base for the PLATO educational operating system. | | | As personal computers became more capable, CDC developed terminal "emulators" that gave some PC's, such as the zenith Z-100 and the IBM PC, the ability to connect to the PLATO system. |
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http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n3/platorising.html
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| | AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory |
| | Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s. | | | Museum of the USSR Computers History - http://www.bashedu.ru/konkurs/tarhov/english/index_e.htm | | | A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. |
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http://www.att.net/cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Computers/History
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| | Provision of computer consultation to the faculty and adminstration of the College is among the list of duties performed. | | | The computer systems include IBM RS/6000s, HP RISC workstations, an IBM SP-2, DEC Alpha RISC compute and file servers, and a Connection Machine CM-2. | | | User Services is the primary end user computer support department within OTI and is responsible for the computer Help Desk, technical support of workstations and departmental servers, training (via short courses) and management of campus-wide software site licenses. |
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http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~jtbauer/resume.txt
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| | COMPUTERS: Go to 14 Washington Place and, if you have any interest in the computational part of this class, take one of the classes to find out how to use the PC/Macintosh Lab, how to logon to UNIX, and how to use the Internet. | | | Dougherty, Ray C. Natural Language Computing: An English Generative Grammar in Prolog. | | | The NYU Computer System, World Wide Web, and PROLOG. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/v51sylla.asc
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| | C&I 335/CS 317 Educational Technology Timeline |
| | The PLATO instructional computing system is widely used in college and K-12 classrooms. | | | Grace Hopper is responsible for the term 'bug' for a computer fault. | | | Using tissue from the brain and taking advantage of the speed of neuron firing computers are now capable of thinking. |
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http://cter.ed.uiuc.edu/cter2/ci335/timeline.html
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| | PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community |
| | PLATO was an accidental one which emerged spontaneously in an environment that had been created for other purposes. | | | It was not officially part of the PLATO system software, and in fact it was used mostly for what administrators would consider frivolous purposes. | | | Tenczar was the head of the system software staff, and I was a 17-year old university student and junior system programmer. |
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http://thinkofit.com/plato/dwplato.htm
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| | History of Computing Pre Historic Era 469bc - 1300ad |
| | In 2000 IBM will build a successful combination of machine and computer program that can beat the world champion chess (Kasparov). | | | In the 20th century computer specialized companies will start building chess playing computers to prove that machines can beat humans. | | | Sequence control is defined as a lower generation of computer programs. |
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http://www.thocp.net/timeline/0469.htm
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| | Plato On-Line: New Features |
| | Plato produced a workshop led by John Paul Jones of the University of the Brain on Aesthetic Computing (Artist driven computer science) in Dagstuhl, Germany 15-20 July 2002. | | | Plato is proud to launch its new editorial project "Cultural Roots of Brains." In this project, philosophers, scientists and artists are questionning the ontological significance of the Brain. | | | Plato, The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology is seeking a self-motivated Brain with fund raising experience to work with its staff and international Board of Brain Directors. |
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http://www.pucsp.br/~cicero/plato/whatsnew.html
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| | Complete Author Bibliography |
| | Annals of the History of Computing 8, 1 (Jan. 1986), 50-55. | | | ISBN 0-471-38922-6 pbk: alk.paper Trust and Trustworthy Computing | | | Universal Literacy--A Challenge for Computing in the 21st Century. |
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http://nfocentrale.net/orcmid/readings/authors.htm
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| | Academic Computing @ Evergreen |
| | The Northwest Academic Computing Consortium is again accepting proposals for grant projects which "stimulate new curricular uses of leading edge information technologies." This year, grant awards can be up to $10,000. | | | This equipment will be used in the long term, not only to support the BCD, but also to house the “new web technology” for student development – technologies on which students will work with interdisciplinary teams to develop state of the art web-based applications such as the BCD. | | | The equipment (computers) on which the.NET project will run will provide valuable scientific web services. |
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http://www.evergreen.edu/academiccomputing/grantresources.htm
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| | Iterations: An interdisciplinary journal of software history |
| | PLATO I, developed in 1960, accommodated only one student, and ran on the University’s ILLIAC computer. | | | This was the first computer system designed especially for general educational use. | | | William Norris had given this computer to Bitzer and his colleagues in 1963 for use rent-free. |
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http://www.cbi.umn.edu/iterations/vanmeer.html
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| | Hans D. Mittelmann |
| | Scientific Computing with emphasis on optimization, including applications of optimization in mathematics, the sciences, and engineering. | | | Leigh Little, PhD, 1998, Dept. Computational Sci., SUNY Brockport | | | Recent talks on our services (software guide, benchmarks, NEOS) |
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http://plato.la.asu.edu
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| | PLATO People: TERM-talk and Instant Messaging |
| | Like so many things in the history of computing, someone somewhere thought of it earlier. | | | But the facility to instantly communicate with other users was nothing new. | | | You might say, "well the big deal about Instant Messaging is the buddy list". |
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http://www.platopeople.com/termtalk.html
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| | Wired News: PLATOfest to Celebrate First Online Community |
| | "One of the key reasons that PLATO was so far ahead of its time," recalls Woolley, "was that the environment at CERL was so minimally structured. | | | One day he asked, 'Why can't we use computers for education?'" | | | "At its heart," PLATO historian Brian Dear declares, "PLATO was the first major social computing environment." |
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,2518,00.html
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| | History-of-Hypertext Timeline |
| | Dewey Decimal System digitizes topic-meanings 1890: Hollerith's punched-card computer 1895: Cathode-ray tube (CRT) 1939: | | | Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" uses puns to implement diverging plotlines 1940: First electronic computers in US, UK, and Germany 1941: | | | The WYSIWYG Era (conflicting standards for esthetic computation) |
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http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/timeline.html
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| | Decision Tree for Optimization Software |
| | some software can be used directly via the net (mainly for trying it out), thanks to implementors who make their computing facilities available to you | | | For an explanation of terms used in optimization consult the |
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http://plato.la.asu.edu/guide.html
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| | On-Line Instruction |
| | My first experiences with a computer in the classroom occured when I was a high school student in the 1970s. | | | Later in graduate school at the University of Illinois I had the opportunity to play with the PLATO instructional computing network there. | | | A terminal was set up in a math class, connected by a sluggish modem (the kind where you had to dial the phone number and set the handset in the modem's cradle) to a mainframe. |
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http://members.visi.net/~longt/online.htm
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| | PLATO Learning (UK) Ltd uses Firstnet Services Ltd as a Secure Platform |
| | Firstnet has provided PLATO Learning with a complete load balanced solution, using four Compaq web servers running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. | | | Home : Computing : PLATO Learning (UK) Ltd uses Firstnet Services Ltd as a Secure Platform | | | PLATO Learning has chosen Firstnet Services Ltd to provide them with a resilient and secure load balanced hosting solution for web based learning software with a backend database for recording learners’ progress. |
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http://www.pressbox.co.uk/Detailed/2360.html
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| | Information Systems, UCL |
| | Socrates supports many users concurrently and can be accessed from any IS computer as well as from other networked computers in departments and from outside UCL. | | | Plato is a more powerful Unix system intended for non-interactive number crunching and medium-scale computationally intensive work. | | | Software provided on Socrates includes mathematical and statistical packages, text editing and formatting programs, and a variety of programming languages. |
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/unix
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| | Emoticons and Smileys on PLATO in the 1970s |
| | Like so many things, PLATO was doing emoticons and smileys, online and onscreen, years earlier. | | | PLATO users began doing smiley characters probably as early as 1972 (when PLATO IV came out), but possibly even earlier on PLATO III (still to be determined... | | | Well, on PLATO, you could press SHIFT-space to move your cursor back one space -- and then if you typed another character, it would appear on top of the existing character. |
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http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html
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