Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launch Blogger. It makes publishing online so easy that anyone can have a voice, triggering the first true “golden age” of the blogosphere.
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Top 5 Structural Foundations: Origins
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- The Release of the Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine — Stephen Wolfram launched Wolfram|Alpha, a symbolic AI system capable of parsing natural language que...
- The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) — The W3C begins work on ensuring the web is accessible to people with disabilities, a crucial step i...
- The Presentation of the First Deep Learning Networks for Real-Time Medical Imaging — Biomedical engineering labs published research proving that deep convolutional neural networks could...
- The PROLOG Standardization (1970s–1980s) — The logic programming language Prolog became the dominant tool for knowledge engineering in Europe a...
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