# Control Data Institute > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Control_Data_Institute > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Control_Data_Institute.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Institute > Source revision: 1270953273 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Defunct vocational school in the United States}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} '''Control Data Institute''' (CDI) was an international technical vocational school created by the American [Control Data Corporation](/source/Control_Data_Corporation) in the mid-1960s. ==Historical timeline== * 1965 [Control Data Corporation](/source/Control_Data_Corporation) established Control Data Institutes in the [United States](/source/United_States). * 1967 The first foreign Institute was established in [Frankfurt](/source/Frankfurt). * 1976 The [PLATO](/source/PLATO_(computer_system)) computer-based education system was announced. * 1977 [PLATO Systems](/source/PLATO_(computer_system)) 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](/source/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.[Computerworld, June 5, 1989] The company was named "Career Development Institutes", however they did not last very long, and they then sold the Canadian Schools to A.B. McKelvey, who had been a VP for Control Data. He kept the name "CDI", however it did not stand for anything. * 1990 Mr. McKelvey took the company public, and changed the name to [CDI College](/source/CDI_College). * 2003 It was subsequently sold to Corinthian Colleges, Inc., a large US based education company. * 2007 Corinthian sold all the CDIs in Canada outside of Ontario to Vancouver-based Eminata Group. The CDIs in Ontario were renamed Everest College, which was the Corinthian brand. Eminata Group also operates Vancouver Career College, [University Canada West](/source/University_Canada_West) and several other small schools. They are in the process of re-establishing a CDI brand in Ontario. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ Charles Babbage Institute] Holds only corporate records, not student transcripts. * [http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/cdc/histtimeline.html Historical Timeline of Control Data Corporation.] * [https://books.google.com/books?id=7PHJH8zjLqQC&dq=human+capital+corporation+purchase+control+data+institute&pg=PT5] Computerworld, June 5, 1989 {{Control Data Corporation}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Control Data Institute}} Category:Vocational education Category:Control Data Corporation Category:1990 initial public offerings {{Illinois-school-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Control Data Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Institute) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_Data_Institute?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.