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1952
OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) is a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer in 1952. It was written by Alexander S. Douglas as an illustration for his Ph.D. thesis on human-computer interaction for the University of Cambridge. OXO was the first digital graphical game to run on a computer.
The simulation was played using a rotary telephone controller, and was designed for the world's first stored-program computer. OXO ...
University Of Cambridge Events
| 1828 Jan 13 |
Charles Darwin Attends The University of Cambridge
His father was unhappy that his younger son would not become a physician and "was very properly vehement against my turning an idle sporting man, which then seemed my probable destination...
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| 1877 Nov 17 |
Charles Darwin received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Cambridge University
The University of Cambridge had come round to Darwinism, and on Saturday 17 November the family attended the Senate House for a ceremony in which Darwin was awarded an honorary Doctorate ...
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| 1952 |
OXO, the First Video Game Using a Graphical Display
OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) is a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer in 1952. It was written by Alexander S. Douglas as an illustration for his Ph.D. thesis ...
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