Editing 1970 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* January 1 – [[Unix time]] begins at 00:00:00 [[UTC]].
* June – The [[Datapoint 2200]] is announced by the [[Computer Terminal Corporation]] (CTC).
* June–August – The programming language [[FLOW (programming language)|FLOW]] is devised by [[Jef Raskin]].
* November 17 – The first [[United States]] [[patent]] for the [[computer mouse]] is issued to [[Douglas Engelbart]].<ref>{{US patent |3541541}}.</ref>
* [[Bomber (novel)|''Bomber'']] by [[Len Deighton]], the first novel written on a [[word processor]] (the [[IBM MT/ST]]), is published in [[England]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/len_deighton_s_bomber_the_first_book_ever_written_on_a_word_processor.single.html|title=The Book-Writing Machine: What was the first novel ever written on a word processor?|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|date=2013-03-01|accessdate=2016-02-21|last=Kirschenbaum|first=Matthew}}</ref>
* The first [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] [[compiler]] is released by [[Niklaus Wirth]].<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/10722581_1 | doi=10.1007/10722581_1 | chapter=The Development of Procedural Programming Languages Personal Contributions and Perspectives | title=Modular Programming Languages | series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science | year=2000 | last1=Wirth | first1=Niklaus | volume=1897 | pages=1–10 | isbn=978-3-540-67958-5 }}</ref>
* The [[Xerox PARC]] computer laboratory is opened in [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]], [[California]].