In 1932,
Frances (Fran) Elizabeth Allen was born in Upstate New York, USA.
she is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers and Allen was the first female IBM Fellow and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award.she Had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.
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In 1995,
The domain ebay.com comes online.
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In 2005,
The first wiki conference is held
Wikimania 2005: The First International Wikimedia Conference was held in Frankfurt.
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In 1988,
Computer shutdown a NASA's space shuttle.
The shuttle engine's computerized controllers determined that value was not closing fast enough.
NASA effort to ensure safety of Discovery and this is the first shuttle after the Challenger explosion in 1986.