1927-10-18 00:00:00

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research separates from the University of Pittsburgh and incorporates as an independent, nonprofit organization.

1929-02-07 00:00:00

Carnegie Tech becomes global hub of bituminous coal research.

Carnegie Tech hosts an international conference on bituminous coal, with more than 2000 scientists and industry experts from 20 countries gathering in Pittsburgh to discuss new findings and revolutionary breakthroughs.

1934-01-10 00:00:00

Albert Einstein visits campus.

Einstein delivers the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture of the American Mathematical Society in Kresge Theatre and the only known image of him with the E=mc2 equation is taken.

1943-01-27 00:00:00

Otto Stern is first Tartan to be awarded Nobel Prize.

Otto Stern earns the Nobel Prize in Physics while on the Carnegie Tech faculty. To date, 21 Nobel laureates have called themselves Tartans.

1951-08-31 00:00:00

Frederick D. Rossini is the first alumnus elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

1954-01-08 00:00:00

Electric engineering lab opens.

Westinghouse funds an electric engineering lab at Carnegie Tech, making it the largest single facility donated by an industry to an educational institution.

1955-01-31 00:00:00

CMU duo invents the first computer programming language.

Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell create the Information Processing Language (IPL).

1956-02-08 00:00:00

CMU receives its first computer.

Alumnus and professor Alan Perlis opens the Computation Center in GSIA with the university’s first computer, an IBM 650.

1956-09-30 00:00:00

The first artificial intelligence program is created.

Herbert A. Simon, Allen Newell and Cliff Shaw create “Logic Theorist,” which has been described as the first artificial intelligence program.

1958-06-30 00:00:00

CMU offers nation's first undergraduate computing courses.

Taught by professor and programming language pioneer Alan Perlis, the first freshman-level computer programming course set the stage for CMU’s leadership of the field.