November 30 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the first known modern case of a human being hit by a space rock).
Computer science
January 7 - The first public demonstration of a machine translation system was held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar).
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Carnap now emphasized the idea that progress in science depends on the gradual accumulation of many small results that support our understanding of the world, a view more in line with Wittgenstein's later philosophy and biological sciences.
As part of an extended series of publications on science, Pope Pius XII published "The Technician" which instructed scientists to restrict themselves to the study of physical matter and do nothing to undermine the idea of a non-material soul or a Superior Being.
Skinner published a book called Science and Human Behavior (ISBN 0029290406) which is still a controversial attempt to apply the results from behavioral studies of laboratory animals to human psychology.