Computer Science
- March - Publication of Claude Shannon's paper "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess", seminal in the development of computer chess and introducing the Shannon number.
- April - Publication of Richard Hamming's paper "Error detecting and error correcting codes", seminal in the construction of error detection and correction codes.
- October - Publication of Alan Turing's paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", seminal in the study of artificial intelligence and presenting the Turing test.
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