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- Successfully Launched Women's Technology Program, WISE (Women in Information, Science and Engineering)
- Met with key White House officials to ensure passage of President Bush's "Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002" which allowed companies to claim an extra depreciation bonus of 30%
- Conducted two Economic Development seminars in Finland and Germany
- Hosted 9th annual Forum 2002: Securing The Future, NC's premier technology conference for IT decision makers
- Alfred Berkeley, Vice Chairman of the NASDAQ, headlined NCEITA's inaugural Information Technology Conference in Charlotte
- Hosted Congressional Briefings with Congresswoman Sue Myrick and Congressman David Price
- Hosted Workforce Investment Board workshop for NCEITA members in conjunction with ITAA
- Worked to educate Congressional Delegation on the importance of, and saw the passage of Trade Promotion Authority
- Conducted a grants process for the NCEITA Technology Demonstration Project for rural or under served schools and received 120 applications from schools all across the state
- Successfully lobbied for one year Extension of Qualified Business Venture Tax Credit
- Hosted “State of Technology Regional Briefing Series” luncheons in Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Hickory, RTP, Wilmington and Winston-Salem
- Hosted Washington DC Briefing with meetings with top officials from The White House, the FCC, and Capitol Hill
- Announced Efland-Cheeks Elementary as the recipient of the NCEITA Technology Demonstration Project, to be called “Eagles Connect”
- Supported the NC InfraGard Program
- Hosted 3rd annual NC Knowledge NOVA: Bridging the Digital Divide conference in Winston-Salem, NC
- Celebrated accomplishments in excellence, innovation and leadership in the state's IT industry at the NCEITA 21 Awards
- Played critical role to ensure passage of the “North Carolina Job Creation and Economic Stimulus Act”
- Supported girls and minorities in technology with donation of scholarships to Camp Techette on the Hill and Imhotep Academy at NCSU
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B.C.
c.3000 - Sumerian writing system uses pictographs to represent words
A.D.
105 - Wood block printing and paper is invented by the Chinese
1455 - Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press using movable type case from metal
1790 - The US Patent Office opened with the first patent granted
1804 - The 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, ran for 1st time in Wales
1830 - Augusta Lady Byron writes world's first computer program
1831 - Michael Faraday, British physicist, demonstrated the 1st electric transformer
1854 - Major streets were lit by coal gas for 1st time
1861 - Motion pictures projected onto a screen
1769 - James Watt invents first practical steam engine
1877 - Wax cylinder phonograph invented by Thomas A. Edison
1877 - The 1st new dispatch by telephone was made between Boston and Salem, Mass, invented by Alexander Graham Bell
1878-79 - Thomas Edison made electricity available for household usage and invented a workable electric light
1886 - 1st successful gasoline driven car was patented by Karl Benz in Karlsruhe
1889 - Herman Hollerith invented punch cards to compute the U.S census
1903 - The first airplane flight by the Wright brothers
1906 - Willis Haviland Carrier invented the "Apparatus for Treating Air" (Air Conditioning)
1908 - A wireless message was sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris
1927 - Philo Farnsworth demonstrated a working prototype of a TV. AT&T Bell Labs scientists invented long-distance TV transmission
1931 - Coaxial cable was patented
1939 - Regularly scheduled television broadcasting begins in US
1946 - The 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1948 - Transistor was invented to replace the large vacuum tube in televisions, radios and computers
1958 - 1959 - Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments developed the integrated circuit, or silicon chip. Noyce went on to found Intel Corp
1968 - Hewlett-Packard introduced the world's 1st programmable scientific desktop calculator
1969 - First space craft lands on the moon
1971 - Intel 4004 chip was developed that locates all the components of a computer on a small chip
1971 - Ray Tomlinson invented the internet based email
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, was introduced for $395
1977 - AT&T installed the 1st fiber optic cable
1981 - IBM introduced its personal computer
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