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Hub City created with Police Jury Road project. Connected Lafayette to Opelousas, St. Martinsville, New Iberia, Abbeville and Crowley.
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Bond election for Water and Electrical plants (25+ years before private utility came)
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Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now UL Lafayette) founded
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The nation's first Masters of Science program in computer science was initiated at UL Lafayette (then USL)
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UL Lafayette (then USL) established the first doctoral program in Computer Science in Louisiana
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Acadian Ambulance expands its telemetry system, allowing the transmission of data to ERs from any point in the company’s service area
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Phoenix Computer Graphics, a Lafayette-based company, unveiled the Phoenix 1024, a system that could produce the highest quality graphics that had ever been possible
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Ground is broken at the Northpark Technology Center as part of the Silicon Bayou Initiative
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The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) was formed by consolidating the graduate programs of computer science and computer engineering at UL Lafayette (the USL)
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STARFIX, the first privately-developed satellite positioning system which was developed by John Chance, is first used in the GOM
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The Apparel-Computer Integrated Manufacturing (ACIM) Center was established to work with the apparel industry and federal agencies on the automation of manufacturing processes.
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UL Research Park is formed. Today, tenants include the USGS National Wetlands Research Center, the Lafayette Primary Care Center, the Center for Business and Information Technologies (CBIT), the Energy Center, and the NASA Regional Application Center (RAC
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LUS deployed a 65-mile series of 96-strand fiber optic rings around Lafayette
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Zydetech, Lafayette’s technology council, is formed by the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.
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LEDA creates the first public Chief Technology Officer to enhance technology based economic development.
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The Acadiana Technology Immersion Center, now the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE), was conceived and funded.
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ACIM formally changed its name to the Center for Business and Information Technologies (CBIT) to reflect its activities more accurately
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LUS announced the fiber to the premises project to bring fiber optic network access to every home and business within its service area
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Inaugural TechSouth Summit and Expo- establishing Lafayette as a technology leader along the Gulf Coast
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UL Lafayette began offering Video Game Design & Development concentrations to Computer Science students
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LUS and the Lafayette Parish School System announced project to bring high speed fiber connections to every public school in Lafayette Parish
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UL Lafayette begins construction of new 61,000-quare foot, $8 million computer science building complete with motion capture and video game design & development labs.
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Lafayette voters overwhelmingly vote to approve the sale of bonds to build the fiber to the premises project
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The Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) celebrates its grand opening
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LUS Fiber begins serving its first customers
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The Accelerator announces its first tenant, special effects firm Pixel Magic