Sentence examples for became the first computer from inspiring English sources

Vinyals worked on AlphaGo, which last March became the first computer program to beat a professionally ranked human player of Go.

Earlier this month, for example, a programme called "Eugene Goostman" convinced enough judges at the Royal Society in London that it was a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy that it supposedly became the first computer ever to pass the Turing test – so named after pioneering British computer scientist Alan Turing, who devised it in 1950 as a gauge of artificial intelligence.

When electronic computers took over, those people became the first computer operators.

For example, in 1996 the $55 million, the ASCI Red Supercomputer, which was the size of tennis court, became the first computer to reach a speed of 1 Teraflop (trillion floating point operations per second).

In Canada, following a meeting in Toronto on December 22, 2003 between Hastings and officials from the Ontario Ministry of Consumer and Business Services, Manhunt became the first computer game in Ontario to be classified as a film and was restricted to adults on February 3 , 2004

It has become the first computer program to beat a professional human player of the Chinese strategy game Go, without handicaps, on a full‑sized 19×19 board.

In 1987 Sun became the first large computer company to use reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) microprocessors in its primary product lines.

The entrepreneurs had a difficult start, but Fairchild eventually became the first major computer chip company in the region.

For example, dozens of people saw the graphical user interface set-up at the Xerox PARC facility in Palo Alto, but it was Jobs who, in 1979, perceived it differently and went on to adopt and adapt the technology for what ultimately became the first Macintosh computer, in 1984.

It became the first commercially available computer to use fully automatic floating point arithmetic commands.

Historically speaking, it became the second largest computer company in the world after I.B.M., and the largest producer of minicomputers.