Computer Science
- March 22 - 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.
- April 19 - Gordon Moore describes the exponential growth trend in computing power which will become known as Moore's law.
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