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June 19, 1968: First software patent awarded to Martin Goetz
In the early days of software engineering, innovations in the software realm were considered to be unpatentable. This began to change with the first patent, awarded to an engineer for...
Jan. 31, 1973: House of Representatives casts first electronic vote
An electronic roll call system became the first in a series of digital transformations in the House of Representatives. “House Says ‘Aye’ to Vote System” published in Computerworld Volume 7,...