What Happened in November Nov 01 2005 Software Glitch Halts Tokyo Stock Exchange George Boole. His method of formal logic - defining statements as true or false - has been used extensively in computer programming and hardware design since the late 1940s Nov 02 1815 Logician Boole Born Nov 02 1916 Adriaan van Wijngaarden Born The Harvard Mark I Nov 03 1937 Aiken Approaches IBM Attempting to Create Giant Brain J. Presper Eckert and Walter Cronkite discuss the UNIVAC prediction Nov 04 1952 CBS News Uses UNIVAC Computer to Predict Election Nov 05 2006 Internet Boasts 100 Million Sites Nov 06 1980 Microsoft Signs Contract with IBM to Create Operating System Clifford Shaw Nov 07 1960 RAND's JOSS Operating System Begins Kilby's Integrated Circuit (Source: Texas Instruments' Image Library) Nov 08 1923 Integrated Circuit Co-Inventor Kilby Born Nov 09 2004 Firefox 1.0 Introduced Nov 10 1983 Microsoft Introduces Windows Robert Fano Nov 11 1917 Timesharing Pioneer Fano Born ILLIAC IV Nov 12 1931 ILLIAC IV Designer Slotnick Born Alan Mathison Turing Nov 12 1937 Alan Turing Defines the Universal Machine. TX-O Nov 13 1983 MIT's TX-O Computer Turned On for Last Time Nov 14 1943 Software Publisher and Author Peter Norton Born Intel 4004 had 2,250 transistors, handling data in four-bit chunks, and could perform 60,000 operations per second Nov 15 1971 First Advertisement for Microprocessor Appears Gene Amdahl and the WISC, Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer Nov 16 1922 IBM System 360 Designer Amdahl Born Hollerith Electrical Printing and Tabulating Machine Nov 17 1929 Herman Hollerith Dies Nov 18 1970 Bill Gates Starts Programming Nov 19 1992 Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Is Released Ray Ozzie. Bill Gates once dubbed Ozzie one of the top five programmers in the universe Nov 20 1955 Lotus Notes Inventor Ozzie Born First ARPANET IMP log--a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET, which was transmitted at 10:30 pm on October 29, 1969 Nov 21 1969 First ARPANET Link Put Into Service Xbox 360 console and controller Nov 22 2005 Xbox 360 Is Released to the North American Market Nov 23 1992 Business Week Predicts Computer Industry "On the Skids" Nov 24 1998 AOL Buys Netscape Nov 25 1997 Pixar's A Bug's Life and Geri's Game Is Released Norbert Wiener Nov 26 1894 Norbert Wiener Born Nov 27 1995 Microsoft Ships Internet Explorer 2.0 Nov 28 1954 Herbert Bright, Developer of One of the First FORTRAN User Programs, Dies at 67 The Atari Pong Nov 29 1972 Atari Announces Pong Game IBM 7090 Analysis and Computation Center Nov 30 1959 IBM Delivers 7090 Mainframe Computers