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Dr. Mark Dean
A computer scientist that developed the first gigahertz chip for IBM paving the way for computer plugins (disc drives). Prior to cloud based services we depended on saving content on discs. -
Dr. Marian R. Croak
Dr Croak is the inventor of Voice over internet network protocol which enables internet use for voice and multimedia communications. VOIP makes it possible for phone calls to be made through computers. -
Dr. Gladys West
As an inventor who worked for IBM Dr West programmed an IBM 7030 Stretch computer, which was used for the Global Positioning System or GPS in 1985. Today GPS tracking is used in just about everything digital we use. -
Dr. John Henry Thompson
Dr Thompson, inventor, joined Macromedia as a chief scientist in 1987 and developed Lingo. Lingo functions as an online scripting language paving the way for digital content, such as Shockwave videos & games, interactive computer kiosks, and graphic-based CD-ROMs. The evolution of the kiosk is a term paper all on it's own, but just in the various ways in which self service kiosks are used today, is astounding. -
Dr. Philip Emeagwali
In 1989 Dr Emeagwali built the worlds fasted computer, performing computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second. Thusly, becoming the designer of parallel computers- the blueprint for modern search engines such as Yahoo & Search.com.