Editing 1980 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* May 22 – The [[arcade game]] ''[[Pac-Man]]'' is released in Japan.
* June 23 – [[Tim Berners-Lee]] begins work on [[ENQUIRE]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ref.web.cern.ch/ref/CERN/CNL/2001/001/www-history/Pr/|title=Cern Authentication|website=ref.web.CERN.ch|access-date=January 8, 2018}}</ref> the system that will lead to the creation of the [[World Wide Web]] a decade later.
* July – [[Microsoft]]'s [[Bill Gates]] agrees to create an [[operating system]] for the new [[IBM Personal Computer]]. In September, [[David Bradley (engineer)|David Bradley]] becomes one of the "original 12" engineers working on the project (under [[Philip Don Estridge|Don Estridge]]) and is responsible for the [[ROM BIOS]] code<ref>{{cite web|first=Mary|last=Bellis|title=IBM History|url=http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm-History.htm|archive-url=http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120427191240/http://inventors.about.com/od/computersandinternet/a/Ibm%2DHistory.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 27, 2012|publisher=About.com|accessdate=2011-11-30}}</ref> and for developing the [[Control-Alt-Delete]] command.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thank this guy for 'control-alt-delete'|first=Abe|last=Aamidor|work=[[The Indianapolis Star]]|url=http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/18001162.html|accessdate=2011-11-30|archive-date=2017-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170910181929/http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/18001162.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* September – The "[[Chinese room]]" argument is introduced in a paper by [[John Searle]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Searle|first=John|title=Minds, brains, and programs|journal=[[Behavioral and Brain Sciences]]|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/minds-brains-and-programs/DC644B47A4299C637C89772FACC2706A|year=1980|volume=3|issue=3|pages=417–424|doi=10.1017/s0140525x00005756|s2cid=55303721 |accessdate=2009-05-13|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* September 30 – [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], [[Intel]] and [[Xerox]] introduce the [[DIX Ethernet|DIX]] standard for [[Ethernet]], which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10&nbsp;Mbit/s speeds.
* [[Atari]] release a conversion of the hit arcade game ''[[Space Invaders]]'' for the [[Atari 2600]] which popularises the home [[video game console]].
* [[Usenet]] established at the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] and [[Duke University]].<ref>{{cite book|title=From Usenet to CoWebs: interacting with social information spaces|editor1=Lueg, Christopher |editor2=Fisher, Danyel |location=London|publisher=Springer|year=2003|isbn=978-1-85233-532-8}}</ref>
* [[Convolutional neural network]]s are introduced in a paper by Kunihiko Fukushima.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Fukushima|first=Kunihiko|title=Neocognitron: A Self-organizing Neural Network Model for a Mechanism of Pattern Recognition Unaffected by Shift in Position|journal=Biological Cybernetics|year=1980|volume=36|issue=4|pages=193–202|url=http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr08/cos598B/Readings/Fukushima1980.pdf|accessdate=2013-12-10|doi=10.1007/bf00344251|pmid=7370364|s2cid=206775608}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Ciresan|first1=Dan|first2=Ueli|last2=Meier|first3=Jürgen|last3=Schmidhuber|title=2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |chapter=Multi-column deep neural networks for image classification |date=June 2012|pages=3642–3649|doi=10.1109/CVPR.2012.6248110|arxiv=1202.2745|isbn=9781467312264|oclc=812295155|publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|location=New York|s2cid=2161592}}</ref>