Computers & the Human Brain Timeline Outline

The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing
(1839)

The "Computer" Might Occupy a Space Larger than London
(1851)

One of the Most Remarkable Human Computers
(1856)

The First Decision-Making Automaton
(1912 – 1915)

The First Mathematical Model of a Neural Network
(1943)

The First Theoretical Description of a Stored-Program Computer
(June 30, 1945)

"As We May Think"
(July 1945)

The Illustrated Version of "As We May Think"
(September 1945)

The Macy Conferences
(1946 – 1953)

Cybernetics: The First Widely Distributed Book on Electronic Computing
(1948)

"Intelligent Machinery"
(July – August 1948)

Comparing the Functions of Genes to Self-Reproducing Automata
(September 20, 1948)

The Differences between Computers and the Human Brain
(June 9, 1949)

The Turing Test
(1950)

"Can Man Build a Superman?"
(January 23, 1950)

Calculating Machines and Human Thought
(January 8 – January 13, 1951)

To What Extent Can Human Mental Processes be Duplicated by Switching Circuits?
(February 1953)

The Computer and the Brain
(1955)

Intelligence Amplification by Machines
(1956)

Chomsky's Hierarchy of Syntactic Forms
(September 1956)

The Perceptron
(November 1958)

Human Versus Machine Intelligence and Communication
(1959)

Augmenting Human Intellect
(October 1962)

Coining the Terms Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Hyperlink
(1965)

Origin of the Concept of Technological Singularity
(1965)

The Brain-Computer Interface
(1973)

WordNet Begins
(1985)

Development of Neural Networks
(1993)

The Singularity
(January 1993)

Chinook, a Computer Checkers Program, Defeats the Human World Checkers Champion
(1994)

How Much Information is There?
(1997)

IBM Deep Blue Defeats Gary Kasparov
(May 11, 1997)

Using Neural Networks for Word Sense Disambiguation
(1998)

On the Value of the History of Science in Scientific Research
(2000)

Conflicts between Androids and Men
(2001)

Minority Report
(2002)

Cortical Rewiring and Information Storage
(October 14, 2004)

"From Gutenberg to the Internet"
(2005)

Connectomes
(September 30, 2005)

Brainbow: A Colorful Technique to Visualize Brain Circuitry
(November 2007)

"Computers vs. Brains"
(April 1, 2009)

The Human Connectome Project
(July 2009)

The First Brain-Computer Interface Product Offered for Sale
(March 2 – March 6, 2010)

Worldwide Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information
(February 10, 2011)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Defeats Humans at Jeopardy!
(February 14 – February 16, 2011)

How Search Engines Have Become a Primary Form of External or Transactive Memory
(July 14, 2011)

Toward Cognitive Computing Systems
(August 18, 2011)

The First Functioning Brain-Computer Interface for Quadriplegics
(May 16, 2012)

Memcomputing Outlined
(November 19, 2012)

"The Human Brain Project" is Launched, with the Goal of Creating a Supercomputer-Based Simulation of the Human Brain
(January 28, 2013)

"The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens"
(April 11, 2013)