1993 in science
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The year 1993 in science and technology consisted of many events, including those below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- December 2 - STS-61 is launched - This space shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope installed corrective optics that allowed the telescope to focus properly.
Computer science
- March 22 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips
- March 31 - A bug in a program written by Richard Depew sends an article to 200 newsgroups simultaneously. The term spamming is coined by Joel Furr to describe the incident.
- April 22 - Release of version 1.0 of the Mosaic web browser.
Awards
- Nobel Prizes
- Turing Award - Juris Hartmanis, Richard Stearns
- Wollaston Medal for Geology - Samuel Epstein