Computer Science
- February 16 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
- The RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography, based on the factoring problem, is first publicly described by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman.
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