Historical Highlights
| 1936 | Howard Vollum, founder of Tektronix, Inc. attends . |
| 1951 | Kenneth King, future president of EDUCOM, attends . |
| late 1950s |
Professor John Hancock creates the DIMWIT machines for molecular analysis, using parts from confiscated pinball machines. (DIMWIT II could also turn on a coffee maker.) |
| 1963 | Alfred Bork, Professor of Physics, introduces analog computer to . |
| 1964 | Dan Drake, founder of Autodesk, attends . |
| 1965 | receives NSF grant to establish Computer Center with IBM 1620 system. |
| Bonnie Huddert Garlan '57 is hired as the first Computer Center Director. | |
| Peter Norton, founder of Norton Utilities, attends . | |
| 1968 | Howard Rheingold, author of a wide variety of works, recently Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, attends . |
| 1969 | NSF grant to support the purchase of an Applied Dynamics analog/hybrid computer and 20 terminals. |
| Richard Crandall, Director of Technology Master Plan 1983 - 87, Apple Distinguished Scientist and Head of Apple's Advanced Computation Group, attends . | |
| 1970 | "Computers in chemical education," by chemistry professor Frederick Tabbutt, published in Chemical & Engineering News. |
| 1975 | Douglas Strain, founder of Electro Scientific Industries, receives Vollum Award |
| 1976 | Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar, attends . |
| 1977 | standardizes on Unix operating system . |
| 1978 | receives NSF-CAUSE grant in support of computer-enriched instruction. |
| Norm Winningstad, founder of Floating Point Systems, receives Vollum Award. | |
| ports BMDP to Unix for Software Development, Inc. and distributes to institutions such as Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, Rockefeller University, University of Illinois Medical Center. | |
| 1979 | Richard Crandall '69 and students in Physics Junior Lab establish a laser beam to connect terminals in physics to PDP 11/70 in Eliot Hall. |
| 1981 | is amongst the earliest USENET sites, along with Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Bell Labs, and UC Berkeley. |
| develops Universal Microcontroller laboratory interface for campus-wide energy project supported by Intel Corporation. | |
| 1982 | French Department develops CAI program with support from FIPSE. |
| 1983 | Apple visits and unveils the Macintosh. |
| Five Year Master Plan for Computing approved by faculty. | |
| joins Apple University Consortium. | |
| 1984 | 's Software Development Lab founded by Richard Crandall. |
| Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, receives Vollum Award. | |
| 1985 | develops first color paint program for the Macintosh. |
| Software Development Lab featured in BYTE Magazine. | |
| Murdock grant for Integrating Computers into the liberal arts. | |
| Meyer grant awarded for creation of campus-wide network. | |
| is first Apple University Consortium member to develop commercially-distributed academic software products, as advertised in the Macintosh Buyer's Guide (Griffin Terminal, Griffin Terminal 100, GriffinText, Rascal, and AELM-51 assembler) | |
| hosts “Computers for the Liberal Arts,” national conference sponsored by Apple Computer. Bill Gates is featured speaker. | |
| and Apple join to donate computers, software and training to Portland high school science teachers. | |
| 1986 | Color Billiards, physics collision model developed at , reviewed in InfoWorld as "one of the best Mac games of any type. |
| Scientific Programming with Macintosh Pascal by Richard Crandall & Marianne Colgrove, John Wiley & Sons. | |
| releases Rascal (Real time Pascal), a new programming language and software development environment. | |
| “Interfacing Laboratory Instruments to Personal Computers with the BenchTop Instrument and Rascal, A Compiler for the Macintosh”, presented by Gary Schlickeiser at International AUC Meeting, Cambridge, England. | |
| is one of 6 campuses -- and the only small liberal arts college -- featured in an EDUCOM-ETS study of leaders in technology. | |
| Chronicle of Higher Education story: "Beating Apple Computer, Inc. to the punch, 香港最快开奖现场直播资料 has developed a hardware and software system that brings color graphics to Apple's Macintosh computer." | |
| MacWorld review of SuperChroma color graphics system developed at . | |
| John Scully, President & CEO of Apple Computer, mails 's Proceedings of Computers for the Liberal Arts conference to 600 presidents of liberal arts colleges. | |
| Library’s online catalog installed, making one of the first liberal arts colleges to feature fully networked access to library holdings. | |
| BenchTop Laboratory Interface systems developed at sold to dozens of institutions, including CalTech, Jet Propulsion Lab, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, NASA, Stanford, U. of Washington, U of California, Yale. | |
| 1987 | BYTE Magazine article featuring 香港最快开奖现场直播资料. |
| Modern Artist color paint package for the Mac II, developed at , is announced at COMDEX trade show and reviewed in InfoWorld. | |
| 1988 | “A College Keeps its Commitment to Total Access, 24 Hours a Day“ article featuring 香港最快开奖现场直播资料 in Apple promotional material. |
| hosts “Get Your Campus Wired,” networking conference. | |
| “香港最快开奖现场直播资料 and Kinetics: a University Success Story,” featured in Kinetics promotional newsletter. | |
| “Modern Artist Turns 2.0” product review in MacWEEK magazine. | |
| hosts “A Class Act : Creating Innovative Software for Teaching & Learning” sponsored by Apple Computer. | |
| 1989 | Computing & Information Services (CIS) is created. Marty Ringle appointed to lead the new organization. |
| Marty Ringle, founding chair of the , moves CLAC headquarters to . | |
| 1990 | receives NSF grant to establish a campus Internet connection. |
| creates a Physics/Biology Computer Lab with an equipment grant from Apple. | |
| 1991 | Richard Crandall ‘69 receives Smithsonian award for visionary use of information technology in science |
| receives equipment grant from Sequent for computing in the social sciences. | |
| is the first selective liberal arts college to acquire SCT's Banner administrative package. | |
| Steve Jobs receives Vollum Award. | |
| 1992 | Computing Strategies in Liberal Arts Colleges, edited by Marty Ringle, published by Addison-Wesley; volume includes an article entitled “Computers for Teaching and Learning,” by Marianne Colgrove |
| is one of five sites, and the only liberal arts college, to host the NSF SuperQuest Summer Institute supercomputer workshop for high school students. | |
| “Information Technology at Liberal Arts Colleges,” presented by Marty Ringle to EDUCOM Corporate Associates Program. | |
| “Graphical User Interfaces for Administrative Computing,” presented by Marty Ringle and Heidi Schmedding at CAUSE annual conference | |
| “Computing at : The Banner Project” featured in The Magazine. | |
| “An extensive computer network enhances ’s academic life,” article by Marianne Colgrove in The Magazine. | |
| 1993 | SCT, Oracle, and DEC provide support for 's development of a prototype graphical user interface for administrative computing. |
| “Dormitory Networking at Liberal Arts Colleges,” moderated by Marty Ringle, with a presentation by Marianne Colgrove at EDUCOM annual conference | |
| ranks second nationally, after CalTech, in percentage of graduates who go on to earn doctorates in Math and Computer Science. | |
| First Technology Advisory Council (TAC) meeting held at . | |
| 1994 | Marty Ringle elected Vice-President of NorthWestNet, regional Internet affiliate for northern California and the Pacific Northwest. |
| Tektronix donates color-imaging equipment to for SuperQuest Institute. | |
| computer training materials win first place in ACM-SIGUCCS competition. | |
| featured in Chronicle of Higher Education story, “Colleges Struggle to Develop Formal Strategies to Pay for Computing.” | |
| and Apple Computer provide computer systems and classes to middle school students in the I Have a Dream program. | |
| 1995 | is first liberal arts college invited to host EDUCOM (now ) national conference |
| unveils the Virtual Tour multimedia CD-ROM, winner of a CASE silver award for State-of-the-Art Projects and Programs. | |
| Marty Ringle directs Mellon grant to support the use of instructional technology in the arts and humanities and Keck grant to create new labs for computational biology and chemistry. | |
| 1997 | named one of America’s most wired schools by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, and reported in USA Today. |
| Marty Ringle directs Culpeper grant for teaching and learning with technology in non-quantitative disciplines. | |
| 1998 | “Is Strategic Planning for Technology an Oxymoron” by Marty Ringle and Dan Updegrove, winner of the |
| receives Mellon grant for the creation of an integrated information gateway. | |
| 1999 | Faculty Symposium on Teaching with Technology: Excursions in the arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, national liberal arts conference hosted at . |
| hosts the annual conference. | |
| Marty Ringle elected NWACC president and moves headquarter to 香港最快开奖现场直播资料. | |
| 2000 | teams up with three peer colleges on a Mellon-funded project to explore sustainable strategies for web development and support in small liberal arts colleges. |
| 2001 | "From tailed amphibia to telecom startups” Magazine article about Gary Rieschel ‘79. |
| Construction begins on the Educational Technology Center. | |
| receives grant from the M.J. Murdock Foundation for the Exploration of New Technologies | |
| 2002 | Marty Ringle elected chair of the Board of Directors. |
| “ What it is, is up to Us” Magazine article on Howard Rheingold | |
| Educational Technology Center, funded by grants from Apple Computer and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, opens for the start of the 2002-03 academic year. | |
| 2003 | hosts national workshop on digital asset management in the liberal arts. |
| to Marty Ringle in recognition of“exceptionally effective leadership in campus information technology use and management, and the mentoring of other professionals.” | |
| Magazine technology issue, including “ What Technology Teaches” and “ Student Body Electric” | |
| 2004 | Sustainable Strategies for Web Integration at Small Colleges, peer workshop coordinated by and Occidental College |
| 2005 | Linux creator Linus Torvalds honored with 香港最快开奖现场直播资料's Vollum Award |
| 2006 | "Integrating Digital Collections into the Small Collect Curriculum" receives funding from the Keck Foundation and Booth Ferris Foundation |
| hosts "" a conference of the National Institute of Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) | |
| adopts Moodle, an open source learning management system | |
| 2007 | hosts the Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges annual conference |
| "An Open Source Strategy to Improve Technology Access and Sustainability," funded by the M.J. Murdock Foundation | |
| receives a NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund award to develop the , a collaborative project to provide instructional materials for inorganic chemistry. | |
| 2008 | Teaching with Digital Images in Classics & Humanities receives the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium 2008 Hugi Excellence Award for Academic Technology |
| receives two NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund awards to prototype an affordable program to support GIS in liberal arts colleges and to host a conference on ePortfolios for liberal arts colleges. | |
| is a founding member of the . | |
| 2009 | Marty Ringle appointed to Amazon Kindle Advisory Panel. In conjunction with six other colleges and universities, explores the use of Kindle DX for electronic course materials. |
| 2010
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continues exploration of electronic book technology with an iPad evaluation and faculty pilot project. |
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Marty Ringle and Trina Marmarelli provide a at the Berglund Center for Internet Studies, Pacific University |
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| 2011 |
Marty Ringle addresses the Western Association of College and University Business Officers Annual Meeting on the topic: IT Forecast, Cloudy with a 10% Chance of Cost Savings |
| 2012 | Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science at the University of Washington receives Vollum Award. |
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Marty Ringle is invited to speak on behalf of private liberal arts colleges at the Bilateral Forum on Copyright and Peer-to-Peer Regulation co-hosted by the RIAA and EDUCAUSE in Washington, DC. |
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| 2013 | to host the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) . |