2002
ID: 3073
Virginia governor formally apologizes for eugenic sterilizations
ID: 3073
2002
ID: 3074
President Bush announced he would request $11 billion over next two years to protect nation from bioterrorism
ID: 3074
2002
ID: 3075
Army investigators looked into contamination problem at Fort Detrick where anthrax had been found outside proper containment
ID: 3075
2002
ID: 3076
Harry Hay dies
ID: 3076
2002
ID: 3077
Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed in response to Enron and other corporate scandals, revolutionizing corporate governance and auditing
ID: 3077
2002
ID: 3078
Grigori Perelman proves Poincaré Conjecture using differential geometry - resolves 100-year-old topology problem
ID: 3078
2002
ID: 3079
Photocatalytic concrete (self-cleaning concrete) first commercialized using titanium dioxide
ID: 3079
2002
ID: 3080
St. Josemaría Escrivá canonized - 300,000 attend, largest ever - Universal call to holiness proclaimed
ID: 3080
2002
ID: 4510
PAQ compression series begins - neural compression approaching Kolmogorov limit
ID: 4510
2002
ID: 4533
AKS primality test proves PRIMES in P - first deterministic polynomial algorithm for primality
ID: 4533
2002
ID: 4571
Matthew Cook proves Rule 110 cellular automaton is Turing complete - simplest known universal system
ID: 4571