Year | Major Milestones |
1945 | Bush proposed Memex |
1947 | Simon book titled Administrative Behavior |
1952 | Dantzig joined RAND and continued research on linear programming |
1955 | Semiautomatic Ground Environment (SAGE) project at M.I.T. Lincoln Lab uses first light pen; SAGE completed 1962, first data-driven DSS |
1956 | Forrester started System Dynamics Group at the M.I.T. Sloan School |
1960 | Simon book The New Science of Management Decision; Licklider article on “Man-Computer Symbiosis” |
1962 | Licklider architect of Project MAC program at M.I.T.; Iverson’s book A Programming Language (APL); Engelbart's paper "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" |
1963 | Englebart established Augmentation Research Center at SRI |
1965 | Stanford team led by Feigenbaum created DENDRAL expert system; Problem Statement Language/Problem Statement Analyzer (PSL/PSA) developed at Case Institute of Technology |
1966 | UNIVAC 494 introduced; Tymshare founded and Raymond article on computer time-sharing for business planning and budgeting |
1967 | Scott Morton’s dissertation completed on impact of computer-driven visual display devices on management decision-making process; Turban reports national survey on use of mathematical models in plant maintenance decision making |
1968 | Scott Morton and McCosh article; Scott Morton and Stephens article;Englebart demonstrated hypermedia—groupware system NLS (oNLineSystem) at Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco |
1969 | Ferguson and Jones article on lab study of a production scheduling computer-aided decision system running on an IBM 7094; Little and LodishMEDIAC, media planning model; Urban new product model-based system called SPRINTER |
1970 | Little article on decision calculus support system; Joyner and Tunstall article on Conference Coordinator computer software; IRI Express, a multidimensional analytic tool for time-sharing systems, becomes available;Turoff conferencing system |
1971 | Gorry and Scott Morton SMR article first published use of term Decision Support System; Scott Morton book Management Decision Systems; Gerrityarticle Man-Machine decision systems; Klein and Tixier article on SCARABEE |
1973 | PLATO Notes, written at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL) at the University of Illinois by David R. Woolley |
1974 | Davis’s book Management Information Systems; Meador and Ness article DSS application to corporate planning |
1975 | Alter completed M.I.T. Ph.D. dissertation "A Study of Computer Aided Decision Making in Organizations"; Keen SMR article on evaluating computer-based decision aids; Boulden book on computer-assisted planning systems |
1976 | Sprague and Watson article "A Decision Support System for Banks"; Grace paper on Geodata Analysis and Display System |
1977 | Alter article "A Taxonomy of Decision Support Systems", Klein article onFinsim; Carlson and Scott Morton chair ACM SIGBDP Conference DSS Conference |
1978 | Development began on Management Information and Decision Support (MIDS) at Lockheed-Georgia; Keen and Scott Morton book; McCosh and Scott Morton book; Holsapple dissertation completed; Wagner foundedExecucom to market IFPS; Bricklin and Frankston created Visicalc (Visible Calculator) microcomputer spreadsheet; Carlson from IBM, San Jose plenary speaker at HICSS-11; Swanson and Culnan article document-based systems for management planning |
1979 | Rockart HBR article on CEO data needs |
1980 | Sprague MISQ article on a DSS Framework; Alter book; Hackathorn foundedMicroDecisionware |
1981 | First International Conference on DSS, Atlanta, Georgia; Bonczek, Holsapple, and Whinston book; Gray paper on SMU decision rooms and GDSS |
1982 | Computer named the “Man” of the Year by Time Magazine; Rockart andTreacy article “The CEO Goes On-Line” HBR; Sprague and Carlson book; Metaphor Computer Systems founded by Kimball and others from Xerox PARC; ESRI launched its first commercial GIS software called ARC/INFO; IFIP Working Group 8.3 on Decision Support Systems established |
1983 | Inmon Computerworld article on relational DBMS; IBM DB2 Decision Support database released; Student Guide to IFPS by Gray; Huntington establishedExsys; Expert Choice software released |
1984 | PLEXSYS, Mindsight and SAMM GDSS; first Teradata computer with relational database management system shipped to customers Wells Fargo and AT&T; MYCIN expert system shell explained |
1985 | Procter & Gamble use first data mart from Metaphor to analyze data from checkout-counter scanners; Whinston founded Decision Support Systems journal; Kersten developed NEGO |
1987 | Houdeshel and Watson article on MIDS; DeSanctis and Gallupe article on GDSS; Frontline Systems founded by Fylstra, marketed solver add-in for Excel |
1988 | Turban DSS textbook; Pilot Software EIS for Balanced Scorecard deployed at Analog Devices |
1989 | Gartner analyst Dresner coins term business intelligence; release of Lotus Notes; International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) founded by Holsapple and Whinston |
1990 | Inmon book Using Oracle to Build Decision Support Systems; Eom and Lee co-citation analysis of DSS research 1971–1988 |
1991 | Inmon books Building the Data Warehouse and Database Machines and Decision Support Systems; Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web server and browser, become publicly available |
1993 | Codd et al. paper defines online analytical processing (OLAP) |
1994 | HTML 2.0 with form tags and tables; Pendse’s OLAP Report project began |
1995 | The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) established; DSS journal issue on Next Generation of Decision Support; Crossland, Wynne, and Perkins article on Spatial DSS; ISWorld DSS Research pages and DSS Research Resources |
1996 | InterNeg negotiation software renamed Inspire; OLAPReport.com established; |
1997 | Wal-Mart and Teradata created then world’s largest production data warehouse at 24 Terabytes (TB) |
1998 | ACM First International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP |
1999 | DSSResources.com domain name registered |
2000 | First AIS Americas Conference mini-track on Decision Support Systems |
2001 | Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems (SIG DSS) founded |
2003 | International Society for Decision Support Systems (ISDSS) merged with AIS SIG DSS |