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==Innovations== * 1955 – [[Lejaren Hiller]] and Leonard Isaacson used ILLIAC I to compose the ''[[Illiac Suite]]'' which was one of the first pieces of music to be written with the aid of a computer. * 1957 – Mathematician [[Donald B. Gillies]], physicist James E. Snyder, and astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]] used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the [[Sputnik 1]] satellite within two days of its launch. * 1960 – The first version of the [[PLATO (computer system)|PLATO]] computer-based education system was implemented on the ILLIAC I by a team led by [[Donald Bitzer]]. It serviced a single user. In early 1961, version 2 of PLATO serviced two simultaneous users.
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