PLATO
PLATO was one of the first generalized
Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the
University of Illinois and later taken over by
Control Data Corporation (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on. PLATO ran for many years at the University of Illinois, but CDC President
William Norris' plans to make it a major force in the computing world and a keystone of corporate social responsibility failed. Although the project was economically a failure and supplanted by other technologies by the time the last production PLATO system was turned off in
2006, PLATO nevertheless pioneered key concepts such as online forums and message boards, online testing, email, chat rooms, picture languages, instant messaging, remote screen sharing, and multiplayer online games. The name PLATO was chosen for its connection to teaching and only later on did it become a
backronym. It was said that PLATO stood for Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations but this was later disavowed and PLATO, despite usually being spelled in all caps, officially stood for nothing.
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Plato
Plato (
Greek: , Plátōn, "wide, broad-browed") (
428/
427 BC –
348/
347 BC), was an ancient
Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks –succeeding
Socrates and preceding
Aristotle– who between them laid the philosophical foundations of
Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the
Academy in
Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates, and to have been as much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.
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Platon
Platon
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Platone
Biografia Nacque ad Atene da genitori aristocratici, Aristone, che gli impose il nome del nonno, Aristocle, e Perittione, la quale, secondo
Diogene Laerzio (Vite, III, 1, 1), discendeva da
Solone. La sua data di nascita viene fissata da
Apollodoro di Atene, nella sua Cronologia, all'ottantottesima
Olimpiade, nel settimo giorno del mese di Targellione, ossia alla fine di maggio del 428 a.C. Ebbe due fratelli, Adimanto e Glaucone, citati nella sua Repubblica, e una sorella, Potone, madre di
Speusippo, futuro allievo e successore, alla sua morte, alla direzione dell'
Accademia di Atene.
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