Word: mathematica
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...help attract 10,000 Southern California students each month to learn by personal discovery. When the visitor puts his finger on a generator and pushes a button, he transmits the electricity stored up in his body to a neon tube, which then glows. At an ingenious IBM exhibit called Mathematica, designed by Charles and Ray Eames, bulbs light up to demonstrate what happens when a number is squared or cubed. After a tour through a giant animated atom, students can test their newly acquired knowledge on a teaching machine...
...simplified the foundations of logic as presented in Whitehead's and Russell's Principia Mathematica, and later worked in developing the theories of notational relativity and pre-assertional logic...