Historical Overview of Technical Innovation Epoch 2: 1981-2000
- Optical Fiber Transmission C.Kao et al, 1981
- The Fractal Geometry of Nature 1982
- Computer Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Systems, P Balaban, K Sam Shanmugan, B W Stuck, Jan 1984
- A New Polynomial Time Algorithm for Linear Programming, N Karmarkar, May 1984 and Karmarkar's Algorithm
- Streams Input Output System, October 1984
- Generative Communication in Linda, David Gelernter, 1985
- The Gnu Manifesto 1985
- Experimental Mathematics: The Role of Computation in Nonlinear Science, April 1985
- You and Your Research, Richard Hamming, 7 March 1986
- Distributed Data Structures in Linda, Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter and Jerry Leichter, 1986
- Quantum Mechanical Computers, Richard Feynman, 1986
- Profiting from Technological Innovation, David Teece, 1986
- Experimental Detection of the Ether, E.W.Silvertooth, 1987
- Trellis-Coded Modulation with Redundant Signal Sets, Gottfried Ungerboeck, February 1987
- How the FFT Gained Acceptance, James W. Cooley, 1987
- The Re-Discovery of the Fast Fourier Transform, James W. Cooley, 1987
- Sources of Innovation Eric von Hippel, 1988
- The Search for Performance in Scientific Processors, John Cocke, March 1988
- Congestion Avoidance and Control, Van Jacobson & Michael J Karels, November 1988
- Linda In Context, Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter, April 1989
- Feynman's Proof of Maxwell's Equations, Freeman Dyson, 19 April 1989
- How To Write Parallel Programs: A Guide for the Perplexed, Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter, September 1989
- Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial, Edward Witten, 1989
- Fractals, Chaos and Power Laws 1990
- The Evolution of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) at IBM, January 1990
- Giant Comets, Evolution and Civilization, S.Clube, F.Hoyle, W.M.Napier, N.C.Wickramasinghe, 13 November 1990
- Harold Edgerton In Memoriam 1990
- Foundations of Computer Science A Aho and J Ullman, 1992
- Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation K.Eric Drexler, 1992
- Coordination Languages and Their Significance February 1992
- Margin Measurements in Optical Amplifier Systems N Bergano et al, March 1993
- Singularity Essay by Vernor Vinge 1993
- "Sagnac" effect: A century of Earth-rotated interferometers, November 1994
- Interior Point Polynomial Algorithms in Convex Programming, Yurii Nesterov, Arkadii Nemerovskii, 1994
- Plan 9 Distributed Operating System from Bell Labs 1995
- A Little History of the World Wide Web, 1945-1995 1995
- The Curse of Xanadu (and Rejoinders), June 1995
- Decline of Unfettered Research, 4 October 1995
- The Birth of Google 1995 and Untangling Web Searches July 1998
- How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality, Per Bak, 1996
- Scaling Optoelectronic VLSI: A 21st Century Roadmap, Ashok Krishnamurthy, April 1996 1996
- Near Term Commercial Opportunities from Long Range Fusion Research, G.L.Kulcinski, 16 June 1996
- Bose Packs Concert Acoustics Into Home Speaker Systems, December 31, 1996
- PayWord and MicroMint: Two Simple Micropayment Schemes, January 1, 1996
- Polynomial Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer, Peter Schor, 25 January 1996
- Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors (SESAMs), September 1996
- In Honor of Seymour Cray, November 1996
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Fullerene Carbon Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, Richard Smalley, 1996
- Subregion and Cell-Type Restricted Gene Knockout in Mouse Brain Tsien, Chen, Gerber, Tom, Anderson, Mayford, Kandel and Tonegawa, 27 December 1996
- Limit to the Bit-Rate Capacity of Electrical Interconnects from the Aspect Ratio of the System Architecture D.A.B.Miller, H.M.Ozaktas, January 1997
- Figments Of Reality 1997
- Inferno Operating System, 1997
- MIT: Impact of Innovation March 1997
- Relativistic Interpretation (with Non-Zero Photon Mass) of the Small Ether Drift Velocity Detected by Michelson, Morley, and Miller, J.P.Vigier, April 1997
- Lifestreams Software Architecture May 1997
- The Birth of Google: Wired Magazine, 1997-2007
- A Brief History of the Internet, Barry Leiner et al, 1997
- Large Porous Particles for Pulmonary Drug Delivery, David Edwards et al, 20 June 1997
- Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment, 1998
- Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Memory, March 1998
- Zero Point Field Survey, 1998
- Microsoft Mathematics Research, April 1998
- Torah Codes, 1994, and Torah Codes, 1998
- The World According to Wavelets, 1998
- Computing with Data: Concepts and Challenges, John Chambers, 1998
- Firms as Knowledge Brokers: Lessons in Pursuing Continuous Innovation, Spring 1998
- A New Intellectual Framework for Psychiatry, Eric Kandel, April 1998
- The Significance of Shannon's Work, June 1998
- 50th Anniversary of Information Theory, June 1998
- Untangling Web Searches: Google, July 1998
- Authoritative Searches in a Hyperlinked Environment: Google, July 1998
- Data Compression and Harmonic Analysis, D Donoho, M Vetterli, R Devore, I Daubechies, October 1998
- Jon Postel, 1943-1998, D Cohen, 16 October 1998
- High Dynamic Range Holographic Digital Storage Media, April 1, 1999
- Morse Theory and Supersymmetry, May 5, 1999
- Akamai Origins as MIT Homework Assignment, 24 June 1999
- Internet Chronology by Lawrence G. Roberts, Octber 24, 1999
- Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts, November 6, 1999
- The Road to Riches, December 23, 1999
- Xanalogical Structure, Ted Nelson, December 1999
- Doubly-special Relativity, December 1999
- Are We at the Dawn of Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology?, December 1999
- Ultimate Physical Limits to Computation, 14 February 2000
- Cantor Set Fractals from Solitons, 28 February 2000
- Millipede: More than One Thousand Tips for Future Atomic Force Microscopy Data Storage, May 2000
- Where Are Power Supplies Headed?, 2000
- Holographic Data Storage, May 2000
- Rationale and Challenges for Optical Interconnects to Electronic Chips, D.A.Miller, June 2000
- Higher Dimensional Data Analysis: The Curses and Blessings of Dimensionality: Slides and Text, 8 August 2000
- John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) 26 July 2000
- Mathematical Challenges from Genomics and Molecular Biology 8 August 2000
- Mathematical Challenges in Spatial Ecology 8 August 2000
- Some Mathematical Challenges in Materials Science 8 August 2000
- Twenty Research Ideas for the Next Twenty Years October 2000
- Double Heterostructure Lasers: Early Days, Zhores Alferov, November 2000
- The Molecular Biology of Memory Storage, 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine
- The Invention of the Integrated Circuit, Integrated Circuit 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics