Computer Science
- January – The Google web search engine originates as "BackRub", a research project using PageRank by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford University, California.
- January 23 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
- February 10 – Deep Blue defeats chess grand-master Garry Kasparov for the first time.
- Lov Grover, at Bell Labs, publishes the quantum database search algorithm.
- IRCnet is founded.
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