Programmer's Almanac

February 8

1971 - The Nasdaq stock market index debuts.

1996 - The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.

Chester F. Carlson (February 8, 1906 - September 19, 1968)

Death� 1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903) And the creator of game theory and the concept of cellular automata. A

(c) 2007

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