Congressi - Congresses - Congrès - Kongresse - Congresos 1955 - 2011(by clicking on the name of the town of Congress you get additional information, if it is available) |
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1995 |
Monaco - Montecarlo |
H. Smit - André Morard |
Only typewriting competition |
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1957 |
Milano II |
Ugo Andreini |
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1959 |
Vienna |
Wilhem Zorn |
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| 1961 - Ibm releases Selectric a new concept of typewriter. Instead of typebars has a pivoting typing element (called typeball) | ||||
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1961 |
Wiesbaden |
Fritz Haeger |
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1963 |
Prague |
Freml |
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1965 |
Paris IV |
M. Marcel Chouvet |
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1967 |
Berne |
Konrad Jan - Marcel Racine |
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1969 |
Varsaw |
Zigmund Bötcher |
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1970 The fax technology is spread by Japanese companies, replacing the cumbersom and only professional machines of the previous years. |
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1971 |
Bruxelles III |
Eugene Cousin |
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1973 |
Valencia |
Ramon Ivorra Ferrer |
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1975 |
Budapest III |
Lászlo Barábsi |
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1977 Apple II is released and is the basis of home computer. At the same time Commodor and Radio Shack incorporate a monitor in their 'microcomputers' which previously required to be connected to a TV set. |
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1977 |
Rotterdam |
Tijs Bon |
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1978 Wordstar - the first word processing software is launched. It worked with CP/M operating system. In 1979 Visical - the first spread sheet software is also released. |
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1979 |
Belgrade |
Munir Lasic |
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1981 IBM starts marketing the first personal computer, using the operating system PC-Dos able to manage the disk operation. At the Intersteno Congress in Mannheim the connection of Michela steno-machines to a microcomputer is announced. Cat (Computer aided transcription) is also experienced in the States. |
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1981 |
Mannheim |
Willy Kühnel - Karl Gutzler |
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1983 |
Luzern |
Marcel Racine - René Steck |
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1985 |
Sofia |
Vesselin Tzvetkov- Natsho Papasov |
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1987 |
Firenze |
Flaviano Rodriguez |
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1989 |
Dresden II |
Hans Störel |
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39 |
1991 |
Bruxelles |
Jos Jossard |
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1993 |
Istanbul |
Ishan Yener |
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1995 Speech recognition is presented at Intersteno. Dragon releases the first edition of Naturally speaking software, which does not need to pause for each word dictation. |
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1995 |
Amsterdam |
Cees A. van Beurden - Joke Bakker |
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1998 |
Lausanne |
William Bonnet -Gabrielle Fasnacht |
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2000 Internet connections are fastly increasing and are offered at reasonable prices. E-mails are becoming a reliable replacement of traditional messages. |
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2001 |
Hannover |
Gregor Keller - Joseph Stehling |
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2003 For the first time an Intersteno Congress is broadcasted in realtime with audio and video streaming technology. |
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2003 |
Rome |
Fausto Ramondelli - Gian Paolo Trivulzio |
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2004 - Helsinki - The Central Committee approves the use of macros, steno machines and speech recognition at the world keyboarding competitions. |
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2005 |
Vienna II |
Marlis Kulb |
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2007 - Apple announces and releases the first version of Iphone |
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2007 |
Praga II |
Jaroslav Zaviacic - Jaroslav Polacek |
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2009 |
Beijing | Tang Keliang | |
| 2010 - The first version of Ipad (tablet PC) is released. | ||||
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2011 |
Paris V | Jacqueline Bertin Mahieux - Jean Charles Le Masson | |
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2013 |
Ghent (Belgium) |
The steering committee is headed by Danny Devriendt | |
