Computer Science
- Netscape Communications creates HTTP Secure for its Netscape Navigator web browser.
- Leonard Adleman describes the experimental use of DNA as a computational system to solve a seven-node instance of the Hamiltonian path problem, the first known instance of the successful use of DNA to compute an algorithm.
- December 3 – Sony release the PlayStation fifth generation home video game console in Japan.
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