BBN bought a number of computers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, notably the first production PDP-1 from Digital Equipment Corporation.

In the early 1960s, Fredkin joined contract research firm Bolt Beranek & Newman ( BBN ) where he wrote a PDP-1 assembler called FRAP ( Fredkin ’ s Assembly Program ) and participated in early projects using the machine.

During the early 1960s, BBN had become a major center of computer science research and innovative applications.

Much of this work was done in collaboration with distinguished researchers at MIT such as Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, who were regular BBN consultants during the early 1960s.

During the 1960s the use of manual sign language grew greatly, but it was not until the 1980s that AAC began to emerge as an area in its own right.

This view was widespread prior to the 1960s, but has almost no supporters among specialists today.

It was in the 1960s that the bipolar dominance of England and Australia in world cricket was seriously challenged for the first time.

This factory was so successful it remained in use until the 1960s, with the workshop still visible at HM Dockyard in Portsmouth, and still containing some of the original machinery.

By the 1960s the school was building a vast publishing and research network reaching across France, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Braudel's work came to define a " second " era of Annales historiography and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of Philip II of Spain.

Atanasoff and Clifford Berry's computer work was not widely known until it was rediscovered in the 1960s, amidst conflicting claims about the first instance of an electronic computer.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

His attitude towards conjectures was that one should not dignify a guess as a conjecture lightly, and in the Taniyama case, the evidence was only there after extensive computational work carried out from the late 1960s.

By the 1940s, the term commonly was capitalized, Negro, but by the mid 1960s it was considered disparaging.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians.

Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.

The opera was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and did not have a significant production until the 1960s.

* 1960s: Ann Landers was presented with a key upon her visit to Starr Commonwealth for Boys.

By the 1960s, as VFL clubs increasingly recruited the best players from other states, they began to dominate the competition and the last match was played in 1976, with North Adelaide being the last non-Victorian winner in 1972.

Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).

Long-time President Houphouët Boigny, in power since the 1960s, passed away in December 1993, unleashing a succession crisis which quickly involved the power institutions of the state.

In the 1960s, in line with the development of cognitive psychology and humanistic psychology, parapsychologists became increasingly interested in the cognitive components of ESP, the subjective experience involved in making ESP responses, and the role of ESP in psychological life.

Don Aronow became involved in powerboat endurance racing in the early 1960s.

The ideas of the 1960s began to influence horror films, as the youth involved in the counterculture began exploring the medium.

Born in Royal Oak, Michigan, Bonewits had been heavily involved in occultism since the 1960s.

An anecdotal example of a kludge involved a computer part supposedly manufactured in the Soviet Union during the 1960s.

The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s ; despite the fact that East African nations were not involved in the Atlantic slave trade that brought blacks to America.

Rimbaud also said that Crass were heavily involved with the hippie movement throughout the 1960s and Seventies, with Dial House being established in 1967.

In the late 1960s and early 70s, educational shows like Sesame Street, Vision On and The Electric Company routinely showed bits that involved Rube Goldberg devices, including the Rube Goldberg Alphabet Contraption, and the What Happens Next Machine.

The hippie culture, which started in the latter half of the 1960s, waned by the early 1970s and faded towards the middle part of the decade, which involved opposition to the Vietnam War, opposition to nuclear weapons, the advocacy of world peace, and hostility to the authority of government and big business.

In the 1960s scandals involved frauds such as huge illegal profits in the administration of banana import quotas, preferential allocation of purposely misprinted ( and, therefore, rare ) postage stamps.

For some, the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska evolved towards black nationalism, as the Black Panther Party was involved in tensions in the late 1960s.

In the English-speaking world, the work would become a significant influence over the anti-psychiatry movement during the 1960s ; Foucault himself took a mixed approach to this movement, associating with a number of figures involved in it but arguing that most of the anti-psychiatrists fundamentally misunderstood his work.

Rimbaud also said that Crass were heavily involved with the hippie movement throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with Dial House being established in 1967.

The yakuza ( organized crime ) were formerly often involved in prize exchange, but a great deal of police effort beginning in the 1960s and ramping up in the 1990s has largely done way with their influence.

On November 26, 2006 the network broadcast an hour-long documentary titled The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank featuring rarely-seen footage of the 1960s version, many odd or memorable moments from the main 1973 – 1982 runs, plus interviews with Rayburn, Somers, Dawson, DeBartolo, producer Ira Skutch, and others involved in the show's production.

Argentina, through its Coast Guard and Navy, has been traditionally great involved in fishery protection in the Argentine Sea with the first major incidents tracing back to the 1960s when a destroyer fired and holed a Russian trawler and continued through recent years.

During the 1960s and ' 70s, he was involved in shows for the BBC and Thames Television ( as well as Frankie Howerd Reveals All for Yorkshire Television in 1980 ).

* Mike Hoare who was involved in the Congo Crisis in the early 1960s and a failed coup in Seychelles in 1981.

Most prime-time programs were preserved by the kinescope recording process, which involved filming the live broadcast from a television screen using a motion-picture camera ( videotape, for recording programs, was not perfected until the late 1950s and was not widely used until the late 1960s ).

The county became a destination for those involved in the counterculture during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly those who wanted to live in closer contact with nature.

* Christine Keeler, iconic 1960s model involved in the Profumo Affair, was born in Uxbridge.

In the 1960s he became involved in the Israeli League Against Religious Coercion.

Criss was involved with a number of bands throughout the mid-to-late 1960s.