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Ada Lovelace
She was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron and her mother Anna Byron was a mathematician. Her parents divorced only two weeks after Ada was born. Her mother did everything to make Ada different from her father and therefore made her take studies in science and maths. Ada was smart and inventive. When she was older she met Charles Babbage, an inventor, and she became his assistant. He also encouraged Ada to continue develop in her studies. -
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When Babbage invented the Analytical engine, he asked Ada to translate an article about the engine to English. She did that, but she also added her own thoughts and theories on how the engine worked and what it would be able to do in the future. Those notes are today considered to be the first algorithm as it contained lots of numbers and codes that would make the engine work. Ada is the first computer programmer, but she didn't get recognition until the mid 1900. -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was born in New York 1906. Already when she was little she showed a big interest in technology and engineering and she loved to fiddle with and take apart different household appliances. She graduated from Yale with a degree in math. After a few years of teaching, she went in the navy in 1943.She joined Harvard faculty in 1949, working for a project called Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation. -
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was the first African american mathematician to work for NASA. She was a member at the space task group, and in 1960 she helped with the calculations for putting spacecraft into orbit. Back then computers were the people that manually did calculations. She was born in West Virginia 1918. Already in an early age, she had strong mathematician capabilities. She graduated from high school at 14, then started at West Virginia University, where she was 1/3 of the first black students -
Martin Cooper
Martin was born i Chicago 1928 and would grow up to be an engineer that built the first mobile cell phone in the 70s. He is sometimes referred to as "father of the cellular phone". -
Mary Wilkes
Mary Wilkes was born in 1937 and she was a computer programmer and a lawyer. She graduated in 1959 with a degree in philosophy and planned to be a laywer but changed her mind and worked in the field of technology as one of the first programmers instead. She is most famous for her work in the LINC computer, which is also recognised as the first personal computer. Her contributions to LINC was for example designing the console of the prototype LINC and writing the manual for the final product. -
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At Harvard she invented the computer compiler A-0 which simplified and translates complicated language and instructions and made it into codes that the computer could read. In 1957 she invented another version of the compiler, the Flow-matic, which was the first English version of computer language, which would lead to her invention of COBOL. Hopper was one of the 1st women in her field that got recognised and praisd for her work. And after her retirement she continued to inspire young engineers -
Radia Perlman
She was born and Grew up in New Jersey with her parents which were engineers. She has been given the nickname "The mother of the internet" because her invention Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is the foundation of making today's internet possible. -
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco, and raised by his adoptive parents. He went to college but soon dropped out and took a job as a video game designer in 1974. When he had saved up he went to India and explored Buddhism. Steve jobs was an american businessman and the co-founder of Apple Inc. -
Katherine Johnson
She had an important role in NASA's "Freedom 7". NASA wanted to send people into space, so Johnson studied how to use geography for space travel. She could then figure out the paths for spacecraft to orbit the earth. Her calculations also helped later in Apollo 11 (NASA's mission to send astronauts to the moon, succeeded 1968). Later on she also worked with space shuttle and Landsat. -
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Wilkes had a huge impact on the computer development. She is considered the first person to own a computer in her home, where she would work on and design computers. Without her, the complex design of computer building blocks and assembler linker module that is used in modern compilers wouldn't exist, or would be invented later. -
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He with his old friend form school, Steve Wozniak, in 1974. The pair built up Apple in Job's garage. The first product by apple was a computer without a keyboard, monitor and casing. These elements would be added on in '77 after Job's suggestion. Their product made huge success. Apple changed the way people viewed computers and made technology available for a broader audience. After a flop in the first mac software in 1985, Jobs left apple. He created his won firm NeXT inc and also bought pixar. -
Radia Perlman and the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
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At pixar Jobs created the first ever computer animated movie ever, Toy Story. His work at apple and his other inventions has helped simplify technology and made it available to everybody. Apple revolutionised the way of technology and computers when it entered the market and continued to do so over the years, for example when the iPod or first iPhone was released. -
Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist, coming from a family of computer scientists as well. He studied and graduated from Oxford and started to work as an engineer for CERN. In 1989 he wrote his first proposal for the WWW. Back then there was different information on different computers. You had to log on to different computers to gather all of your information. Sometimes you even had to learn different programs for each computer. Tim thought there should be a solution to this. -
World Wide Web Launches
The first version of the WWW was running at CERN, showing how his final product would look and work like. The first website and server ever was running at a NeXT computer there. His invention continued to spread, first to colleagues at CERN, and in April 1993 the first web browser was released (by source code). -
World Wide Web
Tim came up with the solution: computers could be connected and share information by the technology hypertext. He wrote the 3 technologies that is the foundation of the web. HTML (hypertext makeup language): the formatting language for the web. URI (uniform resource identifier): used to identify to each resource on the web. URL is the more common name. HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol): allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web.