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Overview of the events of 1983 in science
The year 1983 in science and technology involved many significant events, as listed below.
Astronomy and space science [ edit ] June 13 – Pioneer 10 Neptune , becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System .
September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 Baikonur Cosmodrome , when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft , fires immediately pulling the crew safe from the vehicle, six seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex. January 1 – The ARPANET officially changes to use the Internet Protocol , creating the Internet.
August – Specification for a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (originally devised by Dave Smith of Sequential Circuits ) published.[ 6]
September 27 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project .[ 7]
October 25 – Word processor software Multi-Tool Word , soon to become Microsoft Word , is released.[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi . Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World [ 11]
November 10 – Fred Cohen demonstrates a self-replicating source code which his academic adviser at the University of Southern California , Leonard Adleman , likens to a virus .[ 12]
December – Yugoslav popular science magazine Galaksija releases a special (January 1984) issue, "Računari u vašoj kući", with complete instructions on how to build a full-featured home computer, Galaksija .
The suffix automaton data structure is introduced.[ 13]
The US Federal Government standardizes Ada (programming language) , a strongly typed, comb-structured computer language , with exception handlers , for general-purpose programming. Spain re-joins CERN after having left in 1969 (originally joined for the first time in 1961).February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev , Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908 )
March 18 – Ivan Vinogradov , Russian mathematician (b. 1891 )
April 15 – Vera Faddeeva , Russian mathematician (b. 1906 )
May 22 – Albert Claude , Belgian biologist , co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 (b. 1898 )
August 2 – Edmund Jaeger , American naturalist (b. 1887 )
October 7 – George O. Abell , American astronomer (b. 1927 )
October 19 – Dorothy Stuart Russell , Australian-born British pathologist (b. 1895 )
October 24 – Elie Carafoli , Romanian aeronautical engineer (b. 1901 )
October 26 – Alfred Tarski , Polish American logician and mathematician (b. 1901 )
December 6 – Bruce Irons , English-born engineer and mathematician (b. 1924 ; suicide)
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