CURRICULUM SILICAE
Jack Powers
Director, International Informatics Institute
See also the Informal Bio, Curriculum Vitae, Short Bio and Blogs.
On a long railroad trip, I made a list of all the technologies that I've learned, used, helped develop, marketed, written about or brainstormed. Many of the earlier entries will only be of interest to historians, a few are household names, all of them together made us what we are.
What strikes me now is how cool, how leading edge, how miraculous they all were in their time. These great ideas built careers and fortunes ... and some of them changed the world.
1970 Mergenthaler Linotype hot metal linecaster
1972 Friden JustoWriter Compugraphic 4961TL mini-computer with Intermec OCR paper tape keyboards Varityper 1010 Cold Type composition system\
1973 Compugraphic CompuWriter II with MagSet magnetic tape cassettes Varityper headliner
1974 Compugraphic ACM 9000 area composition system Mergenthaler VIP Variable Input Phototypesetter CompStar 191 photosetter Addressograph Multigraph 710 editing station with 64 character CRT
1975 Harris 2200 Display Ad workstations Autologic APS CRT typesetter Volt Information Sciences Yellow Pages pagination software DEC PDP-8 minicomputers
1976 CCI-400 multi-terminal composition system with Lear Siegler dumb terminals and paper tape punches Data General Nova 2 minicomputer / CCI OS
1977 Imsai 8080 microcomputer Apple II personal computer
1978 Infomix text programming language VisiCalc spreadsheet program DEC PDP-8 timesharing system running RTOS real time operating system Prime minicomputer running PRIMOS Mergenthaler Linotron 202 CRT typesetter Shaffstall media conversion system Xerox 9700 laser printer
1979 DARPANET timesharing account DEC VAX minicomputers running VMS Information International Inc. VideoComp CRT typesetter Penta minicomputer typesetting system Kurzweil OmniFOnt OCR system
1980 Radio Shack TRS 100 color computer Data General Nova 3 minicomputer running CCI OS and RDOS CompuScan OCR system C and Pascal programming languages
1982 IBM PC with 256K of RAM and 2 800K floppy disk drives running CPM and MS-DOS DRI GEM graphical environment Vydec word processing system Atex newspaper publishing systems Xenotron ad composition workstation The Source, Delphi and CompuServe timesharing systems Xerox STAR workstation
1983 Studio Software Do-IT PC publishing system Wang word processing system Digital Research M/PM multiprocessing PC running multi-user WordStar Radio Shack TRS-80 Cs running dBase II ECRM image scanner Eikonix image scanner Compugraphic MCS typesetting system WordPerfect word processing software Datalogics DEC-based pagination system
1984 AT&T 3B2 Unix minicomputers Tegra 1200 dpi laser printer Univac text processing software RayPort Renaissance typesetting system Royce image processing workstation AT&T Olivetti PCs running XyWrite word processing software MagnaType PC typesetting and pagination system PERQ workstation running Intran image processing software Apollo workstations running CCI newspaper publishing software ViewTech tech doc publishing software PagePlanner PC typesetting system
1985 Novell NetWare local area network Macintosh Plus PC Aldus PageMaker desktop publishing software Revelation database software AlphaType Key Corp typesetting system Imagitex image processing system Autologic APS-5 CRT typesetter
1986 Adobe Postscript sage description format Interleaf technical documentation system Bedford minicomputer typesetting system Miles 33 catalog publishing system ReadySetGo desktop publishing software Hell Chromacom digital color prepress system Scitex digital color prepress system Crosfield digital color prepress system Compugraphic SelectSet 7000 CRT typesetter
1987 Macintosh II desktop publishing system XyVision publishing system Texet technical publishing system SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
1988 Adobe PhotoShop digital color prepress software Adobe Illustrator 88 vector art software Aldus Freehand vector art software AppleShare local area network
1989 Bestinfo PC typesetting system DEC VAX minicomputer running VMS troff typesetting system auk, sed and vi text processing software
1990 Microsoft Multimedia PC Owl CD-ROM authoring systems Go PenPoint OS Slate PenBook ebook OS Intel FaxBack system Quark Xpress desktop publishing system |
1991 NCR pen PC Microsoft PenWindows OS VoCal audiotex IVR Interactive Vice Response system Cardiff interactive fax software Townhall BBS system Heidelberg GTO digital color printing press PressTek digital color printing press Sony Data Discman portable CD-ROM reader
1992 Xerox DocuTech laser printer RISO digital duplicator Prodigy videotex system APT pen copyediting software Periscope BBS system Folio VIEWs ebook authoring environment Zagat-Axxis pen PC ebook
1993 Grid systems tablet PC Macintosh II c publishing systems Sun workstation running FrameMaker tech doc publishing software Apple FileMaker database system
1994 NCSA Mosaic World Wide Web browser Archie and Veronica search tools WAIS Wide Area Information System Quicktime VR authoring system Avid non-linear video editing systems Visual BASIC programming language
1995 Newt TCP/IP Internet access software WebSurfer World Wide Web browser Netscape World Wide Web browser Open Market, Lycos and Yahoo search engines ISDN Internet access UUNet Web hosting service HTML HyperText Markup Language America Online
1996 QuickTime media player MS Windows networking Microsoft ActiveX controls VRML Virtual Reality Meta Language Lotus Notes groupware CGI Common Gateway Interface
1997 Palm PDA AvantGo, VindiGo and EBook software Java programming language JavaScript Web page coding language PERL text programming language Progressive Networks (now Real Networks) media player DSL Internet access Microsoft Access database system Microsoft FrontPage authoring system
1998 CORBA and DOM XML eXtensible Markup Language Cold Fusion Web database system SAP R/3 business automation systems
1999 CDPD wireless WANs Virtual Private Networking Handspring Visor/Visorphone wireless Multimail wireless email client Blazer Palm OS Web browser FlowPoint DSL router DIAMOND RIO MP3 PLAYER THE PALACE VIRTUAL WORLD
2000 Microsoft .NET Wi-Fi wireless LANs Cable modem Internet access
2001 Visual ProLog AI programming language Panja BMP MP3 component music player
2002 Microsoft Pocket PC Phone POCKET TV VIDEO MOVIELINK INTERNET MOVIE DOWNLOADS SPAMCOP, SPAMNIX, ENTERPRISE SPAM MANAGERS PENTIUM 4, DVD RW WIKIPEDIA, FRIENDSTER
2003 HTC XDA POCKET PC PHONE WINDOWS MOBILE OFFICE DVDX COPY RYZE SOCIAL NETWORK INTRANETS.COM ASP LINDOWS DESKTOP LINUX, WALLMART PC
2004 PINNACLE STUDIO 8 PC VIDEO EDITING SUITE PLAXO CONTACT MANAGEMENT TYPEPAD BLOG CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM GOODLE ADWORDS MEETUP, MYSPACE RSS 2.0 OLED VIDEO. IPTV
2005 FUJITSU LIFEBOOK 700 Pentium M LAPTOP SKYPE VOIP WEB-TO-PRINT ITUNES, IPOD WEB 2.0: ZILLOW, DIGG, WEBEX, PHOTOWORKS GOOGLE VIDEO, REVVER, BLINKX, VIMEO REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, NANOMEDICNIE, TELEMEDICINE, PHARMACOGENOMICS
2006 TEXTSPEECH PRO, nTAG, .MOBI DOMAINS FILMLOOP.COM, JUMPCUT.COM, VEOH.COM, SORENSEON CODEC, H.264 MYBLOGLOG, SECOND LIFE, BITPASS IPHONE, WINDOWS MOBILE 5 TISSUE ENGINEERING, TRANSGenics/CHIMERAS
2007 NIXIE TUBES FACEBOOK, STUMBLEUPON, BEBO, CAFE PRESS TEXTPIPE RATEMDS, RETAIL CLINICS
2008 ANDROID PHONE, DASH GPS TWITTER, OOVOO, DOPPLR, DISQUS, SHARETHIS SLIDESHARE, JOBAMATIC VYEW EMEETING, ZOHO, DRUPAL MOBILE GOOGLE MAPS, TINEYE, WUFOO. EVERNOTE
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