Alan Turing writes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", the Turing test manifesto.
Norbert Wiener writes The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.
Norbert Wiener writes Atomic Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Harold Innis writes Empire and Communication.
Harry Truman orders work to begin on the hydrogen bomb.
Joseph McCarthy begins his anti-Communist crusade.
North Korea invades South Korea.