The PLATO computer system, launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was designed to be a platform for online learning, but by the early 1970s it had evolved into ...

URBANA – The PLATO computer system at the University of Illinois innovated both in hardware – including plasma display and touch screens – and software – educational innovations ...

The spirit, technology, and even software of PLATO live on in modern retrocomputing re-creations. In today's article, we'll look at two of these services and demonstrate how almost any computer ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, PLATO was used as a groundbreaking computer-aided instruction (CAI) system, equipped with modern features such as beautiful graphics and touch screens for the time.

In “The Friendly Orange Glow,” author and technology entrepreneur Brian Dear tells the fascinating story of Plato, an educational computer system developed during the 1960s and 1970s that was ...

Classroom technology has advanced considerably since The Chronicle captioned a photograph by noting that on the Plato computer, “student in foreground is responding by typing on keyboard ...

an educational platform called PLATO offered a glimpse of the digital world to come. Launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, it was the first generalized, computer ...

In the 1960s and ’70s, he developed the PLATO computer system, which combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays. By Michael S. Rosenwald Donald ...

Plato Learning descended from Control Data's PLATO mainframe computer-based education system of the 1970s. It evolved to programs on disks and CDs and, eventually, to today's online software-and ...

Greg Noonan credits Seminole Community College’s PLATO computer learning lab with placing him on the fast track to his goal of becoming a respiratory therapist technician. Just this week ...