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30 Nov 2000
NEAR Shoemaker |
NEAR Shoemaker (astronomy and space ) The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lands in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. |
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30 Nov 2000
Genesis |
Genesis (astronomy and space ) The Genesis spacecraft is launched. |
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30 Nov 2000
NASA |
NASA (astronomy and space ) NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io. |
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30 Nov 2000
genetic |
genetic (biology) Craig Venter and Mark Adams complete the genetic map of the laboratory mouse. |
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30 Nov 2000
Fossil |
Fossil (biology) Fossil remains of the whale Rodhocetus balochistanensis found in Balochistan Province, Pakistan, by Philip D. Gingerich. |
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30 Nov 2000
quantum computing |
quantum computing (computer science) In quantum computing, the first working 7-qubit NMR computer is demonstrated at IBM's Almaden Research Center, demonstrating Shor's algorithm. |
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30 Nov 2000
Chatterbot |
Chatterbot (computer science) Chatterbot Eugene Goostman is developed. |
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30 Nov 2000
Walkman Circ |
Walkman Circ (computer science) The Walkman Circ is released. |
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30 Nov 2000
Adult-onset basal ganglia disease |
Adult-onset basal ganglia disease (medicine) Adult-onset basal ganglia disease caused by FTL mutations is described. |
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30 Nov 2000
hominid |
hominid (paleontology) First fossil skull fragments of the hominid 'Toumaï' (Sahelanthropus tchadensis; 7 million years BP) found by a team led by Michel Brunet in Chad. |
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30 Nov 2000
Turing Award |
Turing Award (awards) Turing Award: Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard |
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30 Nov 2000
Wollaston Medal |
Wollaston Medal (awards) Wollaston Medal for Geology: Harry Blackmore Whittington |
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01 Jan 2001
cloning |
cloning (biology) The second animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a European mouflon lamb, is born in Italy. |
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08 Jan 2001
endangered species |
endangered species (biology) The first animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a gaur named Noah, is born at Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa. He dies within 48 hours of a common dysentery. |
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15 Jan 2001
Wikipedia |
Wikipedia (computer science) Wikipedia launches on the internet. |
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17 Jan 2001
Tom Kilburn |
death Tom Kilburn Died 17 Jan 2001 at age 79 (born 11 Aug 1921). British electrical engineer who wrote the computer program used to test the first stored-program computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, SSEM, also known as "The Baby." First tested on 21 Jun 1948, the program took 52 minutes to run. The tiny experimental computer had no keyboard or printer, but it successfully tested a memory system developed at Manchester University in England. This system, based on a cathode-ray tube, was the first that could store programs, whereas previous electronic computers had to be rewired to execute each new problem. |
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01 Feb 2001
Human Genome Project |
Human Genome Project (biology) The publicly funded Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins and the privately funded Celera effort, led by Craig Venter simultaneously publish their decoding of the human genome (in Nature and Science, respectively). |
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24 Feb 2001
Claude Shannon |
death Claude Shannon Claude Shannon (b. 1916), American mathematician. |
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27 Feb 2001
Claude Elwood Shannon |
death Claude Elwood Shannon Died 27 Feb 2001 at age 84 (born 30 Apr 1916). American mathematician. |
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06 Apr 2001
Linda Partridge |
Linda Partridge (biology) Linda Partridge and colleagues publish their identification of the role of a specific gene in animal ageing. |
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01 May 2001
Tim Berners-Lee |
Tim Berners-Lee (computer science) Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues name the Semantic Web. |
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28 May 2001
Francisco Varela |
death Francisco Varela Francisco Varela (b. 1946), Chilean biologist and philosopher. |
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18 Jun 2001
René Dumont |
death René Dumont René Dumont (b. 1904), French agronomist. |
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21 Jun 2001
Total solar eclipse |
Total solar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Total solar eclipse |
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02 Jul 2001
artificial heart |
artificial heart (medicine) The world's first self-contained artificial heart is implanted in Robert Tools. |
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09 Aug 2001
Alec Skempton |
death Alec Skempton Sir Alec Skempton (b. 1914), English pioneer of soil science and engineering historian. |
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20 Aug 2001
Fred Hoyle |
death Fred Hoyle Fred Hoyle (b. 1915), English astronomer and science fiction writer. |
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24 Aug 2001
Windows XP |
Windows XP (computer science) Windows XP personal computer operating system released by Microsoft. |
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02 Sep 2001
Christiaan Barnard |
death Christiaan Barnard Christiaan Barnard (b. 1922), South African cardiac surgeon. |
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23 Oct 2001
Apple Computer |
Apple Computer (computer science) Apple Computer unveil the first generation iPod portable media player. |
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31 Oct 2001
Warren Elliot Henry |
death Warren Elliot Henry Warren Elliot Henry (b. 1909), African American physicist. |
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30 Nov 2001
Artificial heart |
Artificial heart In 2001, Robert Tools, 59, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky. Five months earlier, on 2 Jul 2001, doctors at Jewish Hospital in Louisville had implanted the AbioCor heart replacement. He died of internal bleeding and organ failure after living with the device whirring in his chest for 151 days. Doctors said the death was not caused by problems with the AbioCor heart device. They blamed the severe abdominal bleeding on long-standing health problems. Unlike earlier artificial hearts (such as the Jarvik-7) the AbioCor has no wires or tubes that stick out of the chest and connect to a big compressor. The battery-powered, plastic-and-titanium device is the size of a softball. |
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30 Nov 2001
Robert Tools |
death Robert Tools Robert Tools (b. 1942), American first recipient of a self-contained artificial heart, after 151 days without a living heart. |
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01 Dec 2001
Budapest Open Access Initiative |
Budapest Open Access Initiative (computer science) The Budapest Open Access Initiative, a public statement of principles promoting open access to research literature, is launched at a conference convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute. |
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01 Dec 2001
C# programming language |
C# programming language (computer science) The C# programming language specification is released. |
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05 Dec 2001
Franco Rasetti |
death Franco Rasetti Franco Rasetti (b. 1901), Italian American physicist. |
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12 Dec 2001
Robert Schommer |
death Robert Schommer Robert Schommer (b. 1946), American astronomer. |
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14 Dec 2001
Annular solar eclipse |
Annular solar eclipse (astronomy and space ) Annular solar eclipse |
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