1495 – Around 1495 Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for a humanoid robot.

1937 – Alan Turing releases his paper “On Computable Numbers” which begins the computer revolution.

1950 – Alan Turing proposes a test to determine if a machine truly has the power to think for itself. To pass the test a machine must be indistinguishable from a human during conversation. It has become known as the ‘Turing Test’.

 

The QWERTY layout used for English language computer keyboards is 135 years old.

‘To Google’ became a verb in 2006 when both Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary as well as the Oxford English Dictionary recognized it. It of course means – to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet.