Editing 1996 in science (section)

==Computer science==
* January
** The [[Google Search|Google]] [[web search engine]] originates as "BackRub", a research project using [[PageRank]] by [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]], PhD students at [[Stanford University]], [[California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html|title=Our history in depth|publisher=Corporate Information|accessdate=2012-04-16}}</ref>
** First [[USB]] specification issued.
* January 23 – The first version of the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]] is released.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Daniel Paul|title=Hysterically Historical: January II|date=2015|publisher=Booktango|isbn=9781468964226|page=71|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eZwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT71|language=en}}</ref>
* February 10 – [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]] defeats [[chess]] grand-master [[Garry Kasparov]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Newborn|first1=Monty|title=Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere|date=2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9780857293411|pages=7–9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J10kBdYNBNwC&pg=PA7|language=en}}</ref>
* April 3 – [[Jennifer Ringley]] becomes an early practitioner of [[lifecasting (video stream)]], from her dorm room at [[Dickinson College]] in [[Carlisle, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Jennicam And The Birth Of 'Lifecasting'|url=http://digg.com/2015/reply-all-jennicam|website=Digg|date=13 April 2015 |accessdate=20 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* October – ''[[The Shetland Times]]'' and ''[[The Shetland News]]'' become involved in a landmark legal case over alleged copyright infringement and [[deep linking]] in their [[website]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smartt |first1=Ursula |title=Media & entertainment law |date=2014 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Abingdon, Oxon |isbn=9781317808169 |page=425 |edition=Second}}</ref>
* The page ranking web search engine RankDex is originated by [[Robin Li]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Greenberg|first=Andy|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/technology-baidu-robin-li-man-whos-beating-google_2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922194042/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/technology-baidu-robin-li-man-whos-beating-google_2.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 22, 2009|title=The Man Who's Beating Google|journal=[[Forbes]]|date=2009-10-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1109/4236.707687 |title=Toward a qualitative search engine |journal=IEEE Internet Computing |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=24–29 |year=1998 |last1=Yanhong Li |s2cid=14854613 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rankdex.com/about.html|title=About RankDex|publisher=IDD Information Services|accessdate=2014-06-04}}</ref><ref>USPTO,
[http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT5920859&id=x04ZAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=yanhong+li&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=yanhong%20li&f=false "Hypertext Document Retrieval System and Method"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205225726/http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT5920859&id=x04ZAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=yanhong+li&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=yanhong%20li&f=false |date=2011-12-05 }}, US Patent number: 5920859, Inventor: Yanhong Li, Filing date: 5 February 1997, Issue date: 6 July 1999.</ref>
* [[Brewster Kahle]], with [[Bruce Gilliat]], develops the [[Wayback Machine]] software to [[Web crawler|crawl]] and archive [[World Wide Web]] pages.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Kahle|first=Brewster|title=Archiving the Internet|url=http://www.uibk.ac.at/voeb/texte/kahle.html|journal=[[Scientific American]]|accessdate=2011-08-19|date=March 1997|archive-date=2012-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403042627/http://www.uibk.ac.at/voeb/texte/kahle.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Lov Grover]], at [[Bell Labs]], publishes the [[Grover's algorithm|quantum database search algorithm]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The first quantum search algorithm on a scalable quantum computer has important implications|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604068/quantum-computing-now-has-a-powerful-search-tool/|website=MIT Technology Review|accessdate=20 February 2018|language=en}}</ref>
* [[IRCnet]] is founded.<ref>{{cite book|title=Getting information from the IRC system: Linux Basic. AL1-032|publisher=NOITE S.C.|page=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jSMCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP5|language=pl}}</ref>