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Mon Feb 19
2008 ~10th anniv Blu-ray wins over HD DVD. 2008
NANOG ~ Atlanta
HOLIDAY - Presidents Day
11:30am ~ 12:30pm Security and Privacy of Wash U Jolley Hall 1 Brookings Dr, StL MO 63130
3:10 ~ 4pm Sftwr Systems Engineering Evolutionary Algorithms SLU Ritter Hall 220 N Grand
Blvd StL MO 63103
6 ~ 8pm Lean Kanban STL The Study Bar, 711 Old Ballas Rd Suite 215 Creve Coeur MO 63141
6 ~ 8pm Savvy Coders of STL TechArtista, 4818 Washington Blvd, StL MO
7:30 ~ 8:30pm Guy Bluford Jr. 1st African-American Astronaut Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
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Tue Feb 20
1947 Alan Turing: AI test = Chess
1990 Adobe Photoshop is introduced.
1991 Python Released
NANOG ~ Atlanta
3 ~ 4pm Audio Engineers Society WebsterU Sverdrup Hall, Webster Groves MO 63119
5:30 ~ 7pm UX user experience grp ~Google HEART Framework Industrious St. Louis
6 ~ 8pm CS50X StL ~ Learn How to Program from Scratch
6 ~ 8pm Quantified Self St. Louis 520 S. Euclid Ave., StL MO 63110
6 ~ 7pm ACM AI Interest Grp ~Keras neural networks~ Simon Hall WashU Clayton MO 63105
6:30 ~ 9:30pm Clojure ~ Specter The Climate Corporation, 4 Cityplace Dr, StL MO 63141
7 ~ 10pm Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG Broemmelsiek Park Schwede Rd Wentzville MO 63385
7 ~ 9pm Arch Reactor Space Build Night 2215 Scott Ave, StL MO
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Wed Feb 21
1947 Polaroid Land Camera, the first "instant camera"
1996
MySpace.com goes online tommorrow.
NANOG ~ Atlanta
12 ~ 1:30pm AngularJS Lunch ~ Tentative Oasis Digital, 1630 Des Peres Road, StL MO
63131-1863
2 ~ 4pm Medici Makers Medici MediaSpace, 2065 Walton Road, StL MO
5:30 ~ 7:30pm Alexa Amazon Echo Grp ~ Echo Buttons, Alexa for Business
6 ~ 8pm Blockchain Cryptocurrency Workshop WashU GREGG TECHNOLOGY CLASSROOM 1 Brookings Dr
StL MO 63130
6 ~ 7pm ACM ~ Artificial Intelligence Interest Grp Simon Hall Wash U 6501 Forsyth Bvld
Clayton MO 63130
6:30 ~ 8:30pm Wordpress Community of STL ~SSL certificates CIC, 4240 Duncan Ave, StL MO
7 ~ 9pm Ethereum STL ~EthDNS UMSL EXPRESS SCRIPTS HALL (ESH) Room 103, StL MO
7 ~ 9pm Gateway Computer Club Caseyville Township Bldg., 10001 Bunkum Rd. Fairview Heights
IL 62208
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Thu Feb 22
1732 Washington's Birthday
5:30 ~ 8pm IATP ~Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing
5:30 ~ 8pm ONA Online News Assoc ~Instagram TechArtista, 4818 Washington Boulevard,· StL
MO
6 ~ 9pm Inventor Forge Makerspace 5988 Mid Rivers Mall Dr, Suite 234, St. Peters MO
6 ~ 8pm CS50X StL ~ Learn how to program! From Scratch St. Louis Bread Co.
6:30 ~ 9pm Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Morgan Street Brewery
6:30 ~ 8:30pm DevOps STL 2710 Lafayette Ave, StL MO
6:30 ~ 8:30pm iOS Developers Asynchrony Labs, 900 Spruce St, StL MO
7 ~ 9pm Arch Reactor ~ Laser Night! 2215 Scott Ave, StL MO
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Fri Feb 23
1947 ISO, the International Organization for Standardization is founded.
Audio Engineers Society Central States Conference WebsterU Sverdrup Hall Webster Groves MO
63119
3:30 ~ 4:45pm Google Assistant Workshop
6:30 ~ 8:30pm Open Data StL T-Rex - Lammert Building, 911 Washington Ave StL MO
7 ~ 10pm ASEMO Broemmelsiek Public Viewing Broemmelsiek Park, Schwede Rd Wentzville MO
63385
7 ~ 9pm 3D Printing Arch Reactor 2215 Scott Ave, StL MO
7 ~ 8:30pm StL and Suburban Radio Club Missouri Baptist Hospital 3015 N Ballas Rd, StL MO
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Sat Feb 24
2010 over 10 billion tracks downloaded from iTunes.
2016 Xamarin acquired by MS Visual Studio
Audio Engineers Society Central States Conference WebsterU Sverdrup Hall Webster Groves MO
63119
9am ~ 1pm Intro to R language w DataCamp Part 1 StLU Salus Cntr Lafayette Ave and Grand
Ave StL MO
12 ~ 3pm Space Frontier StL chapter WashU, McDonnell Hall, StL MO
2 ~ 4pm Micro Cntr ~ Raspberry Pi
6 ~ 9pm SciFest ~Engineers St Louis Science Cntr 5050 Oakland Ave, StL MO
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Sun Feb 25
2002 Wikipedia ver 2 (aka Magnus Manske Day).
2013 WebOS SmartTV by LG
Audio Engineers Society Central States Conference WebsterU Sverdrup Hall Webster Groves MO
63119
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2 ~ 4pm Micro Cntr ~ Raspberry Pi
6 ~ 9pm SciFest ~Engineers St Louis Science Cntr 5050 Oakland Ave, StL MO
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Mon Feb 26
2016- SCO vs IBM (all Linux) settled!! ~Who owns Unix?~
Historical Events
1917 First Jazz Recording
1991 World Wide Web started
1991 Tim Berners-Lee introduced first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor
1996 SGI Buys Cray Research.
1999 Pentium III 500MHz released
5:30 ~ 7:30pm MS-NET-User-Group
6:30 ~ 9pm Elixir language Asynchrony
6:30 ~ 8:30pm WordPress West OPO Startups
Tue Feb 27
1864 Andersonville P.O.W Camp Opened
1998 Newton computer discontinued development by Apple
2001 v.92 modem standardized
2008 WorldWide Telescope (WWT) program released by MS
3 ~ 4pm Audio Engineers Society Webster University
6 ~ 8pm CS50X StL ~ Learn How to Program from Scratch
6 ~ 8pm Machine Learning and Data Science Grp
6:30 ~ 9pm Hazelwood Linux Users Group
6:30 ~ 9pm Rocketry Assn STL
7 ~ 9pm Linux Users of Central Illinois
7:30 ~ 10pm ARCH ~ Arch Reactor
Wed Feb 28
1939 Discovery of Dord See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord
1956 Patent on "Core" Memory by MIT's Forrester
1966 Astronauts-Gemini 9 die crashing into St. Louis airport bldgs.
1982 AT&T loses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
1990 ARPANET decommissioned.
6 ~ 7:30pm MaptimeSTL
7 ~ 9pm Apple Professionals STL
7 ~ 8:30pm Science On Tap ~ 007 Storytelling since Casino Royale (2006)
7 ~ 8:30pm StL Bitcoin Users Group
Thu Mar 1
1893 1st public demonstration of radio is in St Louis by Nikola Tesla.
1912 1st parachute jump. It happens @ Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis.
1941 1st FM radio station in US ~ W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) Nashville TN
1945 Plankalkul, 1st language for programming. algorithmic
1960 LISP language Released
1968 "Star Trek will return!" NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement
National Pig Day
12 ~ 2pm Salesforce Developer Group
6 ~ 9pm Inventor Forge Makerspace
6 ~ 8:30pm GDG ~ Google Android Developers Grp StL
6 ~ 8pm CS50X StL ~ Learn how to program! From Scratch
6:30 ~ 9pm STL Polyglots
6:30 ~ 7:30pm ACM WUSTL Tech Talks Gregg House WashU
7 ~ 8:30pm ASEMO ~ Beginner Astronomy Weldon Spring Interpretive Cntr
Fri Mar 2
1993 Japanese Supercomputer
2002 Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP's bankruptcy
2006 Wikipedia 1,000,000th article.
2008 Core2 Duo Processor E4700 released
Texas Independence Day ~
5 ~ 7pm ROBOMO StL Area Robotics Saint Louis Science Cntr
6pm ~ 12am 1st Friday @ Science Cntr StL Science Cntr
6 ~ 10pm STL 2600 hackers Mtng Arch Reactor
7 ~ 10pm ASEMO Public Viewing Broemmelsiek Park
7 ~ 9pm Inventor Forge
10pm ~ 12:35am Free movie! Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sat Mar 3
1843 telegraph Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test practicability"
1863 National Academy of Sciences approved by Abe Lincoln
2003 sex offenders can be posted
National Anthem Day
9:30 ~ 11:30am Arduino, Getting Started
1 ~ 4pm ROBOMO ~ StL Area Robotics Grp Science Cntr
2 ~ 3:30pm St Charles Artificial Intelligence Showcase
Sun Mar 4
1955 1st radio facsimile (fax) transmission across continent
1956 Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM
1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped to Los Alamos Laboratories NM
2007 Estonia conducts election on The Net.
1 ~ 4pm CWElug Central West End Linux Users Grp
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