Historical Highlights

1936	Howard Vollum, founder of Tektronix, Inc. attends 人妻诱惑.
1951	Kenneth King, future president of EDUCOM, attends 人妻诱惑.
late 1950s	Professor John Hancock creates the DIMWIT machines for molecular analysis, using parts from confiscated pinball machines. (DIMWIT II could also turn on a coffee maker.)
1963	Alfred Bork, Professor of Physics, introduces analog computer to 人妻诱惑.
1964	Dan Drake, founder of Autodesk, attends 人妻诱惑.
1965	人妻诱惑 receives NSF grant to establish Computer Center with IBM 1620 system.
	Bonnie Huddert Garlan '57 is hired as the first 人妻诱惑 Computer Center Director.
	Peter Norton, founder of Norton Utilities, attends 人妻诱惑.
1968	Howard Rheingold, author of a wide variety of works, recently Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, attends 人妻诱惑.
1969	NSF grant to support the purchase of an Applied Dynamics analog/hybrid computer and 20 terminals.
1969	Richard Crandall, Director of 人妻诱惑 Technology Master Plan 1983 - 87, Apple Distinguished Scientist and Head of Apple's Advanced Computation Group, attends 人妻诱惑.
1970	"Computers in chemical education," by chemistry professor Frederick Tabbutt, published in Chemical & Engineering News.
1975	Douglas Strain, founder of Electro Scientific Industries, receives Vollum Award
1976	Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar, attends 人妻诱惑.
1977	人妻诱惑 standardizes on Unix operating system .
1978	人妻诱惑 receives NSF-CAUSE grant in support of computer-enriched instruction.
	Norm Winningstad, founder of Floating Point Systems, receives Vollum Award.
	人妻诱惑 ports BMDP to Unix for Software Development, Inc. and distributes to institutions such as Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Rockefeller University, University of Illinois Medical Center.
1979	Richard Crandall '69 and students in Physics Junior Lab establish a laser beam to connect terminals in physics to PDP 11/70 in Eliot Hall.
1981	人妻诱惑 is amongst the earliest USENET sites, along with Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Bell Labs, and UC Berkeley.
1981	人妻诱惑 develops Universal Microcontroller laboratory interface for campus-wide energy project supported by Intel Corporation.
1982	French Department develops CAI program with support from FIPSE.
1983	Apple visits 人妻诱惑 and unveils the Macintosh.
	Five Year Master Plan for Computing approved by faculty.
	人妻诱惑 joins Apple University Consortium.
1984	人妻诱惑's Software Development Lab founded by Richard Crandall.
1984	Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, receives Vollum Award.
1985	人妻诱惑 develops first color paint program for the Macintosh.
	人妻诱惑 Software Development Lab featured in BYTE Magazine.
	Murdock grant for Integrating Computers into the liberal arts.
	Meyer grant awarded for creation of campus-wide network.
	人妻诱惑 is first Apple University Consortium member to develop commercially-distributed academic software products, as advertised in the Macintosh Buyer's Guide (Griffin Terminal, Griffin Terminal 100, GriffinText, Rascal, and AELM-51 assembler)
	人妻诱惑 hosts “Computers for the Liberal Arts,” national conference sponsored by Apple Computer. Bill Gates is featured speaker.
	人妻诱惑 and Apple join to donate computers, software and training to Portland high school science teachers.
1986	Color Billiards, physics collision model developed at 人妻诱惑, reviewed in InfoWorld as "one of the best Mac games of any type.
	Scientific Programming with Macintosh Pascal by Richard Crandall & Marianne Colgrove, John Wiley & Sons.
	人妻诱惑 releases Rascal (Real time Pascal), a new programming language and software development environment.
	“Interfacing Laboratory Instruments to Personal Computers with the BenchTop Instrument and Rascal, A Compiler for the Macintosh”, presented by Gary Schlickeiser at International AUC Meeting, Cambridge, England.
	人妻诱惑 is one of 6 campuses -- and the only small liberal arts college -- featured in an EDUCOM-ETS study of leaders in technology.
	Chronicle of Higher Education story: "Beating Apple Computer, Inc. to the punch, 人妻诱惑 College has developed a hardware and software system that brings color graphics to Apple's Macintosh computer."
	MacWorld review of SuperChroma color graphics system developed at 人妻诱惑.
	John Scully, President & CEO of Apple Computer, mails 人妻诱惑's Proceedings of Computers for the Liberal Arts conference to 600 presidents of liberal arts colleges.
	人妻诱惑 Library’s online catalog installed, making 人妻诱惑 one of the first liberal arts colleges to feature fully networked access to library holdings.
	BenchTop Laboratory Interface systems developed at 人妻诱惑 sold to dozens of institutions, including CalTech, Jet Propulsion Lab, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, NASA, Stanford, U. of Washington, U of California, Yale.
1987	BYTE Magazine article featuring 人妻诱惑 College.
1987	Modern Artist color paint package for the Mac II, developed at 人妻诱惑, is announced at COMDEX trade show and reviewed in InfoWorld.
1988	“A College Keeps its Commitment to Total Access, 24 Hours a Day“ article featuring 人妻诱惑 College in Apple promotional material.
	人妻诱惑 hosts “Get Your Campus Wired,” networking conference.
	“人妻诱惑 College and Kinetics: a University Success Story,” featured in Kinetics promotional newsletter.
	“Modern Artist Turns 2.0” product review in MacWEEK magazine.
	人妻诱惑 hosts “A Class Act : Creating Innovative Software for Teaching & Learning” sponsored by Apple Computer.
1989	Computing & Information Services (CIS) is created. Marty Ringle appointed to lead the new organization.
1989	Marty Ringle, founding chair of the , moves CLAC headquarters to 人妻诱惑.
1990	人妻诱惑 receives NSF grant to establish a campus Internet connection.
1990	人妻诱惑 creates a Physics/Biology Computer Lab with an equipment grant from Apple.
1991	Richard Crandall ‘69 receives Smithsonian award for visionary use of information technology in science
	人妻诱惑 receives equipment grant from Sequent for computing in the social sciences.
	人妻诱惑 is the first selective liberal arts college to acquire SCT's Banner administrative package.
	Steve Jobs receives Vollum Award.
1992	Computing Strategies in Liberal Arts Colleges, edited by Marty Ringle, published by Addison-Wesley; volume includes an article entitled “Computers for Teaching and Learning,” by Marianne Colgrove
	人妻诱惑 is one of five sites, and the only liberal arts college, to host the NSF SuperQuest Summer Institute supercomputer workshop for high school students.
	“Information Technology at Liberal Arts Colleges,” presented by Marty Ringle to EDUCOM Corporate Associates Program.
	“Graphical User Interfaces for Administrative Computing,” presented by Marty Ringle and Heidi Schmedding at CAUSE annual conference
	“Computing at 人妻诱惑: The Banner Project” featured in The 人妻诱惑 Magazine.
	“An extensive computer network enhances 人妻诱惑’s academic life,” article by Marianne Colgrove in The 人妻诱惑 Magazine.
1993	SCT, Oracle, and DEC provide support for 人妻诱惑's development of a prototype graphical user interface for administrative computing.
	“Dormitory Networking at Liberal Arts Colleges,” moderated by Marty Ringle, with a presentation by Marianne Colgrove at EDUCOM annual conference
	人妻诱惑 ranks second nationally, after CalTech, in percentage of graduates who go on to earn doctorates in Math and Computer Science.
	First Technology Advisory Council (TAC) meeting held at 人妻诱惑.
1994	Marty Ringle elected Vice-President of NorthWestNet, regional Internet affiliate for northern California and the Pacific Northwest.
	Tektronix donates color-imaging equipment to 人妻诱惑 for SuperQuest Institute.
	人妻诱惑 computer training materials win first place in ACM-SIGUCCS competition.
	人妻诱惑 featured in Chronicle of Higher Education story, “Colleges Struggle to Develop Formal Strategies to Pay for Computing.”
	人妻诱惑 and Apple Computer provide computer systems and classes to middle school students in the I Have a Dream program.
1995	人妻诱惑 is first liberal arts college invited to host EDUCOM (now ) national conference
	人妻诱惑 unveils the 人妻诱惑 Virtual Tour multimedia CD-ROM, winner of a CASE silver award for State-of-the-Art Projects and Programs.
	Marty Ringle directs Mellon grant to support the use of instructional technology in the arts and humanities and Keck grant to create new labs for computational biology and chemistry.
1997	人妻诱惑 named one of America’s most wired schools by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, and reported in USA Today.
1997	Marty Ringle directs Culpeper grant for teaching and learning with technology in non-quantitative disciplines.
1998	“Is Strategic Planning for Technology an Oxymoron” by Marty Ringle and Dan Updegrove, winner of the
1998	人妻诱惑 receives Mellon grant for the creation of an integrated information gateway.
1999	Faculty Symposium on Teaching with Technology: Excursions in the arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, national liberal arts conference hosted at 人妻诱惑.
	人妻诱惑 hosts the annual conference.
	Marty Ringle elected NWACC president and moves headquarter to 人妻诱惑 College.
2000	人妻诱惑 teams up with three peer colleges on a Mellon-funded project to explore sustainable strategies for web development and support in small liberal arts colleges.
2001	"From tailed amphibia to telecom startups” 人妻诱惑 Magazine article about Gary Rieschel ‘79.
	Construction begins on the Educational Technology Center.
	人妻诱惑 receives grant from the M.J. Murdock Foundation for the Exploration of New Technologies
2002	Marty Ringle elected chair of the Board of Directors.
	“ What it is, is up to Us” 人妻诱惑 Magazine article on Howard Rheingold
	Educational Technology Center, funded by grants from Apple Computer and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, opens for the start of the 2002-03 academic year.
2003	人妻诱惑 hosts national workshop on digital asset management in the liberal arts.
	to Marty Ringle in recognition of“exceptionally effective leadership in campus information technology use and management, and the mentoring of other professionals.”
	人妻诱惑 Magazine technology issue, including “ What Technology Teaches” and “ Student Body Electric”
2004	Sustainable Strategies for Web Integration at Small Colleges, peer workshop coordinated by 人妻诱惑 and Occidental College
2005	Linux creator Linus Torvalds honored with 人妻诱惑 College's Vollum Award
2006	"Integrating Digital Collections into the Small Collect Curriculum" receives funding from the Keck Foundation and Booth Ferris Foundation
	人妻诱惑 hosts "" a conference of the National Institute of Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE)
	人妻诱惑 adopts Moodle, an open source learning management system
2007	人妻诱惑 hosts the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges annual conference
	"An Open Source Strategy to Improve Technology Access and Sustainability," funded by the M.J. Murdock Foundation
	人妻诱惑 receives a NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund award to develop the , a collaborative project to provide instructional materials for inorganic chemistry.
2008	Teaching with Digital Images in Classics & Humanities receives the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium 2008 Hugi Excellence Award for Academic Technology
	人妻诱惑 receives two NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund awards to prototype an affordable program to support GIS in liberal arts colleges and to host a conference on ePortfolios for liberal arts colleges.
	人妻诱惑 is a founding member of the .
2009	Marty Ringle appointed to Amazon Kindle Advisory Panel. In conjunction with six other colleges and universities, 人妻诱惑 explores the use of Kindle DX for electronic course materials.
2010	人妻诱惑 continues exploration of electronic book technology with an iPad evaluation and faculty pilot project.
2010	Marty Ringle and Trina Marmarelli provide a at the Berglund Center for Internet Studies, Pacific University
2011	Marty Ringle addresses the Western Association of College and University Business Officers Annual Meeting on the topic: IT Forecast, Cloudy with a 10% Chance of Cost Savings
2012	Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science at the University of Washington receives Vollum Award.
2012	Marty Ringle is invited to speak on behalf of private liberal arts colleges at the Bilateral Forum on Copyright and Peer-to-Peer Regulation co-hosted by the RIAA and EDUCAUSE in Washington, DC.
2013	人妻诱惑 to host the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) .

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