What Happened in February Feb 01 1991 Sun Microsystems Starts Java Technology Feb 02 1996 Amelio Replaces Spindler as CEO of Apple Feb 03 1986 "Vaporware" Announced Feb 04 1948 Ken Thompson Born Feb 05 1948 Mauchly Unveils His Rule for Success Feb 06 1959 Kilby Files Patent for Integrated Circuit Feb 07 1956 Doug Ross Presents Gestalt Programming Feb 08 1945 A Patent is Filed for the Harvard Mark I Feb 09 1927 David Wheeler, the Inventor of the "Wheeler Jump", Born Feb 10 1996 Deep Blue Defeats Kasparov Feb 10 1948 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Aims IBM to Create the SSEC. Feb 11 1966 The RAND Coporation Takes JOSS out of Service Feb 12 1977 Rotenberg Founds The Boston Computer Society Feb 13 1980 Apollo Computer is Incorporated Feb 14 1946 John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Unveil The ENIAC Feb 15 1934 Niklaus Wirth Born Feb 16 1946 The ENIAC is Dedicated. Feb 17 1874 Thomas J. Watson Sr. Is born Feb 18 1977 First ComputerLand Franchise Store Opens Feb 19 1946 Alan Turing Presents the "Proposal for the Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)" Feb 19 1971 The First Warrant Is Issued to Search a Computer Storage Device Feb 20 1947 Alan Turing Suggests Testing Artificial Intelligence with the Game of Chess Feb 21 1996 Cox Enterprises Buys into Digital Domain Feb 22 1928 BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas Kurtz Born Feb 23 1905 Prime Number Theorist Derrick Lehmer Born Feb 24 1955 Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs Born Feb 25 1959 The APT Language Is Demonstrated Feb 26 1996 SGI Buys Cray Research Feb 27 1976 National Security Agency's Harvest Computer Retires Feb 28 1956 MIT's Forrester Receives Patent on "Core" Memory Feb 29 1860 Herman Hollerith Born
