2011 to 2013 Timeline Outline

Scanning Books in Libraries Instead of Making Photocopies
(2011)

Post-Review Process Rather than Pre-Review Process in Publishing?
(2011)

Google's Track of its Own Development
(2011)

"Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information"
(2011)

An App the Promotes the Value of Impermanence
(2011 – 2013)

British Library App
(January 2011)

The Smartphone Becomes the CPU of the Laptop
(January 2011)

The First Independently Published Magazine Exclusively for the iPad
(January 2011)

Universal Music Group Donates a "Mile of Music" to the Library of Congress
(January 10, 2011)

Voice-Activated Translation on Cell Phones
(January 12, 2011)

Probably the Largest Digital Image
(January 13, 2011)

The Wikipedia Celebrates its Tenth Anniversary
(January 15, 2011)

More than Ten Billion Apps are Downloaded from the Apple App Store
(January 22, 2011)

Publishing Non-Fiction Exclusively for Cell Phones, eBook Readers and Tablet Computers
(January 28, 2011)

The New York Times Recommendations Service
(January 31, 2011)

Confession: A Roman Catholic iPhone App
(February 2011)

42.3% of the U.S. Population Uses Facebook
(February 2011)

The Google Art Project
(February 1, 2011)

4.3 Billion IP Addresses Have Been Allocated
(February 3, 2011)

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

The New York Times Begins Ranking eBook Best Sellers
(February 11, 2011)

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

Borders Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
(February 16, 2011)

Two Billion People Now Use the Internet Regularly
(February 17, 2011)

The U. S. National Broadband Map
(February 17, 2011)

The Second Best-Selling Book in America Priced Like an App (99 Cents)
(February 25, 2011)

Four Phases of Government Internet Surveillance and Censorship to Date
(February 25, 2011)

The Environmental Impacts of eBooks and eBook Readers
(March 2011)

A 3D Printer Kit for only $499
(March 2011 – November 2012)

Koomey’s Law of Electrical Efficiency in Computing
(March 2011)

An Interactive Map of the Internet Later Produced as an iPhone App
(March 2011 – March 2013)

In its First Year Apple's iBookstore Sold 100,000,000 Books
(March 2, 2011)

The Impact of Automation on Legal Research
(March 4, 2011)

Google Processes 1,000,000,000 Search Queries Per Day
(March 5, 2011)

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Automation on Jobs
(March 6, 2011)

The Largest Interior Image: The Strahov Monastery Library
(March 29, 2011)

A Program for Signing and Inscribing Ebooks
(April 2011)

Walmart Buys Kosmix.com, Forming @WalmartLabs
(April 18, 2011)

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for eBooks on the Kindle Platform
(April 20, 2011)

Microsoft Acquires Skype for $8.5 Billion
(May 2011)

In May 2011 Netflix was the Largest Source of Internet Traffic in North America
(May 2011)

The Saint John's Bible is Completed
(May 2011)

McKinsey Report on the Impact of the Internet on Growth, Jobs, and Prosperity
(May 2011)

The First Major Print Magazine Publisher to Offer iPad Subscriptions
(May 9, 2011)

The First Large Robotized Library
(May 16, 2011)

"Print isn't dead, says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report
(May 18, 2011)

Ebooks Outsell Physical Books on Amazon.com
(May 19, 2011)

"Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out": The New York Public Library Buys the Timothy Leary Papers
(June 2011)

The Expanding Digital Universe: Surpassing 1.8 Zetabytes
(June 2011)

FaceBook Serves a Trillion Page Views in June 2011
(June 2011)

"Physical Archiving is Still an Important Function in the Digital Era."The Internet Archive Builds an Archive of Physical Books
(June 6, 2011)

College Textbooks Make a Slower Transition from Print to Digital
(June 6, 2011)

Digital Democracy is Not So Democratic
(June 10, 2011)

"Distant Reading" Versus "Close Reading"
(June 24, 2011)

New Corporation Sells MySpace for $545 Million Loss
(June 29, 2011)

IBM Announces Phase-Change Memory
(June 30, 2011)

200 Million Tweets Per Day: 100 Fold Increase Since 2009
(June 30, 2011)

South Korea to Shift All Primary and High School Textbooks to Digital by 2015
(July 2011)

Construction of the Francis Crick Institute Begins
(July 2011)

Leading British Tabloid Closed Because of Cell Phone Hacking Scandal
(July 7 – July 17, 2011)

Leonardo's Lost Painting, Salvator Mundi, Discovered
(July 10, 2011)

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

Consumer Reports Began Generating More Revenue from Digital Subscriptions than from Print
(August 2011)

Non-Traditional Book Publishing on the Internet is 8X the Output of Traditional Book Publishing
(August 1, 2011)

The Methodists' Handwritten Bible
(August 11, 2011)

Google Agrees to Acquire Smart-Phone Maker Motorola Mobility
(August 15, 2011)

Free Online Artificial Intelligence Course Attracts 58,000 Students
(August 15, 2011)

Interactive Reading and Spelling on the iPad
(August 18, 2011)

Toward Cognitive Computing Systems
(August 18, 2011)

Michael Hart, Father of eBooks & Founder of Project Gutenberg, Dies
(September 6, 2011)

The First Commercial Application of the IBM Watson Question Answering System: Medical Diagnostics
(September 12, 2011)

Amazon Introduces the Kindle Fire
(September 28 – November 14, 2011)

Steve Jobs Dies
(October 5, 2011)

What Would an Infinite Digital Bookcase Look Like?
(October 18, 2011)

Room to Read Donates its 10,000,000th Book
(October 28, 2011)

Texting During the Climb up El Capitan in Yosemite
(November 2011)

The First Computer to Top 10 Petaflops
(November 2011)

Action Comics #1 Superman sells for $2.16 Million
(November 11 – November 30, 2011)

The Swedish Twitter University Begins
(November 14, 2011)

Digital Books Represent 25% of Sales of Some Categories of Books but Less than 5% of Childrens' Books
(November 20, 2011)

Rapid Growth of the Digital Textbook Market in the U.S.
(November 23, 2011)

Google Maps 6.0 for Android Introduces Indoor Maps and a "My Location" Feature
(November 29, 2011)

The Cost of Sequencing a Human Genome Drops to $10,500
(November 30, 2011)

Signalling the Shift from Print to Digital and to More Accurate Metrics of the Effectiveness of Advertising
(November 30, 2011)

The First Widely Accepted Index of the Talmud
(December 2011)

Amazon.com Sold More Than 4 Million Kindles in December 2011
(December 2011)

Statistics on European and U.S. eBook Sales
(December 1, 2011)

More than 10 Billion Android Apps Downloaded
(December 6, 2011)

100 Million Words Translated per Week by Google Translate
(December 8, 2011)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System to Team with Cedars-Sinai Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute
(December 16, 2011)

Burning of the Library of l'Institut de l'Egypte
(December 17, 2011)

More than One Trillion Videos Were Played Back on YouTube in 2011
(December 20, 2011)

Sheikh Sultan Dr. Al-Qasimi Pledges to Restore the Library of l'Institut de l'Egypte
(December 20, 2011)

The Anatomy of an Internet Attack by "Anonymous"
(2012)

Surprisingly Active 21st Century Trade in Medieval Manuscript Books of Hours
(2012)

42,182,000 Copies Printed Semi-Monthly in 194 Languages
(January 2012)

Gelatin and Calcium in the Earliest Paper Was Responsible for its Longevity
(January 2012)

Sales of eBook Readers in 2011
(January 5, 2012)

Transforming Google into a Search Engine that Understands Not Only Content but People and Relationships
(January 10, 2012)

The Cost of Sequencing a Human Genome Drops to $1000
(January 10, 2012)

The Smallest Magnetic Data Storage Unit Uses Just 12 Atoms per Bit
(January 13, 2012)

Slides of Fossils Collected by Darwin on the Beagle Rediscovered
(January 17, 2012)

Major Websites Go Dark to Protest Web Censorship Legislation
(January 17, 2012)

Apple Introduces iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U
(January 19, 2012)

Discovery of the Afghan Genizah
(January 23, 2012)

Technological Unemployment: Are Robots Replacing Workers?
(January 23, 2012 – January 13, 2013)

Facebook has 845,000,000 Users
(February 1, 2012)

Creative Destruction of the Book Trade by Amazon?
(February 8, 2012)

The ILAB Launches a Mobil App
(March 2012)

After Digitizing Over 20 Million Books Expansion of the Google Books Project Begins to Slow
(March 9, 2012)

The Encyclopedia Britannica Ends Print Publication
(March 14, 2012)

Nearly 50% of U.S. Mobile Subscribers Own Smartphones
(March 29, 2012)

U.S. Justice Department Sues Major Publishers Over the Pricing of eBooks; Amazon Wins
(April 12, 2012)

Pulitzer Prize in Journalism Awarded to an Internet-Only Publication
(April 16, 2012)

Improving the Research Potential of ESTC
(April 17, 2012)

"Companies that have existed for centuries could be gone in a generation unless they make a single radical change."
(April 18, 2012)

Massive Thefts from the Girolamini Library in Naples; Auction Aborted
(April 19, 2012)

Using a Densitometer to Measure Usage of Medieval Books of Hours
(April 23, 2012)

During Testimony over a Phone Hacking Scandal Rupert Murdoch Predicts the End of Print News Media
(April 26, 2012)

Microsoft Invests in Barnes & Noble's Nook eBook Reader Division
(April 30, 2012)

What Makes Spoken Lines in Movies Memorable
(April 30, 2012)

Digitizing the Oldest Monastic Library
(May 2012)

Harvard & M.I.T. to Offer Free Online Courses
(May 2, 2012)

The First Annual Report Issued by a Museum in an eBook Format
(May 7, 2012)

How eBooks Are Changing Fiction Writing and Publishing
(May 12, 2012)

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

Google Introduces the Knowledge Graph
(May 16, 2012)

Flame: A Virus that Collects Information
(May 28, 2012)

Growing Adoption of the eBook Format in the U. S.
(May 29, 2012)

The First Book Stored in DNA and then Read
(August 16, 2012)

The Book History Online Database, Previously a Free Service, Becomes an Expensive Private Research Source
(September 3, 2012)

The Human Genome is Packed with At Least 4,000,000 Gene Switches
(September 6, 2012)

The World's Smallest Book Requires a Scanning Electron Microscope to be Seen
(September 25, 2012)

A 3D Virtual Reality Reader for eBooks
(October 2012)

Online Advertising is Expected to Surpass Print Advertising
(October 2012)

Book Mountain + Library Quarter in Spijkenisse, The Netherlands
(October 4, 2012)

2.5 Quintillion Bytes of Data Each Day
(October 23, 2012)

Windows 8, With Touch Screen Features, is Released
(October 26, 2012)

Penguin to Merge with Random House
(October 29, 2012)

$2.6 Billion Spent on Ads on Phones and Tablets in 2012
(October 29, 2012)

Historicizing Big Data
(November 2012)

A Natural History of Data
(November 2012)

Google Has 67% of the U.S. Search Market and Collects 75% of U.S. Search Ad Dollars
(November 4, 2012)

eBooks Accounted for 22% of All Book Spending in Second Quarter of 2012
(November 5, 2012)

The First Teleportation from One Macroscopic Object to Another
(November 8, 2012)

Penguin Books Introduces a New eBook Lending Program
(November 19, 2012)

Memcomputing Outlined
(November 19, 2012)

Coursera Enrolls Nearly Two Million Students from 196 Countries in Online Courses within its First Year
(November 20, 2012)

The CEO of Barnes & Noble No Longer Reads Physical Books
(November 20, 2012)

"Anonymous" Plans to Shut Down Syrian Government Websites in Response to Countrywide Internet Blackout
(November 29 – December 1, 2012)

U.S. Bill to Stengthen Privacy Protection for Emails
(November 29, 2012)

100% of U.S. Public Libraries Now Offer Public Access to the Internet
(December 2012)

@Pontifex Sends First Tweet
(December 12, 2012)

eBook Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines
(December 17, 2012)

"How the antiquarian book market has evolved for life on the web"
(December 19, 2012)

After Cell Phones With Cameras, Android Cameras- Without Cellphones- are Introduced
(December 19, 2012)

Computer Graphic Animation Indistinguishable from Nature
(December 22, 2012)

With the Decline of Brick & Mortar Bookstores Public Libraries are Becoming More Commercial
(December 27, 2012)

The Secret Race to Save Manuscripts in Timbuktu and Djenne
(December 27, 2012)

"Libraries Have Shifted from Warehouses of Books & Materials to Become Participatory Sites of Culture and Learning"
(December 28, 2012)

The Year In Graphics and Interactives from The New York Times
(December 30, 2012)