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Control Data Institute (CDI) was an international technical vocational school created by the American Control Data Corporation in the mid-1960s.

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  • 1965 Control Data Corporation established Control Data Institutes in the United States.
  • 1967 The first foreign Institute was established in Frankfurt.
  • 1976 The PLATO computer-based education system was announced.
  • 1977 PLATO Systems were implemented at all United States Institutes.
  • 1978 Institutes and learning centers numbered sixty-nine worldwide.
  • 1989 Institutes in the United States (Control Data Institute and the Institute for Advanced Technology) were sold off by Control Data Corporation to Human Capital Corporation, Edina, MN. At that time, the two business served 18,000 students/attendees. Terms of the cash sale were not disclosed.[1]


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  1. ^ [Computerworld, June 5, 1989]
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