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Alan Turning
Alan Turing was born 1912 in London, UK. Best known for the Turing machine, a theoretical model of a computer. He described it in a 1936 article as part of a logical proof. In 1950, he described a test to determine if a machine was considered to have intelligence as a human being. It is known as the Turing test. His goal was that if a person converses with a machine and cannot determine whether it is a machine or a human, the criterion of human intelligence is met. -
John von Neumann
John von Neumann was born the 28 of December 1903 in Budapest, Hungary. He moved to the United States of America in order to broad his ability to do mathematics. He was the most famous for his ability to do complicated math equations by mental arithmetic. He participated in the invention of the IAS machine. He was also a member in the US nuclear weapon arsenal. In 1944 he published the article “Theory of Games and Economic behavior”. This article concluded a theory about economic organizations -
Bill Gates
Bill Gates created Microsoft on april 4th, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the United States. Microsoft is a multinational technology company. Microsoft develops and produces computer software and related services. Bill Gates created Microsoft because he thought every house should have a computer and ideally with windows. What is so special about this is that Bill Gates achieved his hopes and goals. Bill developed a version of the programming language called Basic for his first microcomputer -
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs created Apple on april 1st, 1976 in Cupertino, California. Apple is a multinational corporation. Apple creates and produces consumers electronics and other electronic devices. Steve jobs created Apple for one reason at first and that was because he wanted a personal computer, and he couldn’t afford one on the market. He began working on a prototype of the Apple 1 in his parents garage. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a english engineer and he is known to have created the world wide web. He created the world wide web in 1989. His main reason why he invented the world wide web was because he wanted to be able to share information between scientists and universities. The world wide web is known as the web and is an information system where documents and other web resources can be found.
