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 […]
Evelyn Boyd Granville is a prominent figure in mathematics and was one of the first African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. Evelyne was born in 1929, in Washington DC, USA. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University in 1949, making her, along with Euphemia Lofton Haynes, one of the first two […]
Barbara Liskov is a highly influential computer scientist who has made substantial contributions to the field. Born in 1939, in Los Angeles, Liskov is best known for her work in programming languages, programming methodology and distributed systems. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS & CONTRIBUTIONS Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP): Barbara Liskov introduced the Liskov Substitution Principle in a […]
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 […]
Blood, Sweat and Years. The Y2K remembered It only seems a few years ago when the world was awash with how the all the IT systems, PC’s and Game Consoles were all going to stop on the 1st of January 2000. Companies were expecting to spend millions on testing and fixing their systems, Government were […]
Looking Back At The Y2K Bug by Paul Lynham FIAP A quarter of a century ago, projects to address the problems of software that used two-digit years were well on their way to completion. This was a problem that I also tackled in my own agricultural software which I had developed in the 1980’s. It […]
