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This Week in History of Computing:
Edsger W. Dijkstra; Pranav Mistry; Gary Kildall; Ivan Sutherland

This Week in History of Computing:
IBM Announces “STRETCH” Supercomputer Plans; US Companies Get Aid from Government; Laszlo Belady; Claude Shannon; Microsoft Introduces 2-Button Mouse

This Week in History of Computing:
First FORTRAN Program Runs; Tandy Plans to Build IBM PS/2 Clones; Annie Easley; Larry Tesler; Robert Noyce Awarded Patent for “Integrated Circuit”

This Week in History of Computing:
Stan Ulam; Philip Walter Katz; First West Coast Computer Faire Begins; “LISP” Language Unveiled; IBM First to Use Megabit Chip

This Week in History of Computing:
Microsoft Releases Windows 3.1; Mark Spencer; Priit Kasesalu

This Week in History of Computing:
Census Bureau Receives UNIVAC I Computer; Microsoft Announces “SoftCard”; Marc Andreessen Founds Netscape with Jim Clark

This Week in History of Computing:
Jean Sammet; Larry Page; Margaret Butler

This week in our column “History of computing”: Richard Stallman; John Backus; Jack Dorsey sends first Tweet

This week in our column: Katherine Johnson; Jef Raskin; The IBM 7950 retires;

This week in the column “History of computing”: Thelma Estrin, Ian Clarke.