Timelines tagged “20th-century”
5 timelines
- Alan Turing
Alan Turing's life and work, from his birth in 1912 through computability, wartime cryptanalysis, machine intelligence, and mathematical biology to posthumous recognition in 2021.
- Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart’s life and work, from his birth in 1925 to his death in 2013: augmenting human intellect, the mouse, collaborative computing, the 1968 demonstration, and the Bootstrap Institute.
- Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper’s life and legacy, from her birth in 1906 to posthumous recognition in 2016: mathematics, wartime computing, compilers, business programming languages, and service in the United States Navy.
- Green Revolution
The spread of high-yielding grain varieties, from the 1943 Mexican Agricultural Program and Norman Borlaug's wheat through IR8 rice, Asian adoption and CGIAR to later criticism and African successor efforts up to 2022.
- Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’s life from 1955 to 2011: Apple’s founding, the Macintosh, NeXT and Pixar, his return to Apple, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.