Grace Hopper, born in 1906, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She died in 1992. Grace was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. Hopper played a pivotal role in the development of computer programming and […]
Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in 1914, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) and died in 2000. She was an actress and inventor who made significant contributions in both fields. In the Hollywood Golden Age, she became a renowned film star, known for her beauty and performances in movies such as ‘Algiers’ (1938) and […]
Mary Jackson (1921-2005) was a pioneering African American aerospace engineer at NASA during the mid-20th century. She was one of the first black women to work at NASA and the first black woman to become an engineer at the agency. Jackson was a member of a small group of African American women who worked as […]
Katherine Johnson was a mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. Katherine, an African-American, was born in 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia and died in 2020. During her 35-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned […]
Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician and computer scientist, made significant contributions to the United States aeronautics and space programs with her work at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and later at NASA. Dorothy, an African American, was born in 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri and died in 2008. Vaughan was a part of the West […]
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer who is best known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Ada was born Augusta Ada Byron in 1815 and died in 1852. She was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke. Ada’s contributions to the […]
Mary Allen Wilkes is a notable figure in the field of computer science, known for her pioneering work in the development of early computer operating systems. Mary was born in 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, and went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Logic from Wellesley College in 1959. Later, she shifted her […]
Discussing the work of Alan Turin. In this video, Paul Hazelden, discusses why Alan Turing, the subject of many films and documentaries and often referred to the father of modern computing science, should be considered one of the most influential people in computing. Born in 1912 Alan was an English mathematician and his contribution to […]
