First computer in history based on von Neumann architecture, first working computer with a stored program, first computer with RAM.

For geophysics: first digital recordings of seismic surveys at Eni (an early adopter of this technology).

Agip Computing Centre for Geophysical Data Processing opens.

First system with 3D-stacked and liquid-cooled boards.

With a computing capacity of 0.6 GFlops, it enters the Top 500 of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and the Cray Operators Exclusive Club.

Beats Garry Kasparov, chess champion.

Simulates the atmosphere and the oceans with an accuracy of 10 kilometres, was five times more powerful than the previous world number 1 and was housed in an anti-seismic “cushioned” building.

Human genome sequencing.

Human Brain Simulation - Blue Brain Project.

Discovery of the Higgs boson.

Batte Lee Sedol, campione di Go.

Google DeepMind releases the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, making predictions for nearly all human proteins and hundreds of millions of proteins from other organisms freely available to the scientific community.

ChatGPT becomes available to the general public.