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==Computer science== * January 14 β [[CDC 6600]] [[supercomputer]] delivered to [[CERN]] in [[Geneva]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The CDC 6600 arrives at CERN|url=https://timeline.web.cern.ch/cdc-6600-arrives-cern|work=Timeline – Computing at CERN|publisher=CERN|location=Geneva|date=1965-01-14|access-date=2019-10-20}}</ref> * March 22 β [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] launch the [[12-bit]] [[PDP-8]], the first successful commercial [[minicomputer]], which will sell more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to this date.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/|title=The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8|authorlink=Douglas W. Jones|first=Douglas W|last=Jones|access-date=2012-05-08}}</ref> * April 19 β [[Gordon Moore]] describes the [[exponential growth]] trend in computing power which will become known as [[Moore's law]].<ref>{{cite journal|first=Gordon E. |last=Moore |date=19 April 1965 |url=ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf |title=Cramming more components onto integrated circuits |journal=[[Electronics (magazine)|Electronics]] |volume=38 |issue=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218224945/http://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Articles-Press_Releases/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf |archive-date=2008-02-18 |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-01-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|year=2005 |url=ftp://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Video-Transcripts/Excepts_A_Conversation_with_Gordon_Moore.pdf |title=Excerpts from A Conversation with Gordon Moore: Moore's Law |publisher=[[Intel]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080218225540/http://download.intel.com/museum/Moores_Law/Video-Transcripts/Excepts_A_Conversation_with_Gordon_Moore.pdf |archive-date=2008-02-18 |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-01-20 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|year=2007|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/semiconductor/timeline/1965-Moore.html|title=1965 β "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits|publisher=[[Computer History Museum]]|access-date=2012-01-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/business/21648683-microchip-pioneers-prediction-has-bit-more-life-left-it-ever-more-moore |title=Ever more from Moore |newspaper=The Economist |date=18 April 2015 |access-date=19 April 2015}}</ref>
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