Vinton Cerf
-Born on June 23, 1943, and is currently 80 years old.
-Graduated from Van Nuys High School then graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1965.
-Perused a graduate degree, master's degree, and doctorate at UCLA. He then returned to Stanford in 1972 as a professor.
- Designing an interplanetary internet at NASA’s JPL which helped the communication of satellites.
- Worked at the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, funding various groups to develop TCP/IP, packet radio, packet satellite and packet security technology. This aided the US in developing modern communication.
-Was a cofounder of the TCP/IP system instrumental in internet creation and without it, computer science would not exist.
-Worked in a team that created the first electronic mailing application using the system he previously developed which forever changed how we see computers and revolutionized communication.
-Born on December 15th, 1815, and died at the age of 36 on November 27th, 1852. -She had no formal form of education at a university but was able to learn from England’s best tutors because of her parent’s wealth. She was also mentored by Charles Babbage
Minor Contributions-She translated several documents in her career to aid Charles Babbage in his creation of the first ever computers and even provided her own input on how these computers could be improved. Without her translations, it would have taken much longer to create modern computers.
-Her findings were also published in a science journal which inspired others to enter the field of computer science. This created a new interest towards the subject and propelled it into popularity.
-Created complex math to program computers and is regarded as the first ever programer. Without the ability to program computers, computer science, and technology, would be very primitive and look much different.
-Date of Birth: December 9th, 1906
-Date of Death: January 1st, 1992
-Attended college prepatory school Hartidge School in Plainfield, NJ.
-Was originally rejected from Vassar College on grouds of low Latin scores.
-Eventually accepted to Vassar College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1928.
-Earned a master's degree in mathematics and physics from Yale in 1930.
-Earned a PHD in mathematics from Yale in 1934.
Hopper was originally commisioned into the Navy in December of 1940. During WWII in 1943, she was assigned to the Mark I Computer programming staff. She also co-authored three papers on the MK I, one of the earliest practical. After the war, she became an employee of the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corpation, where she joined the team developing the UNIVAC I. During her tenure at the corporation, she created a cutting-edge software known as the compiler. This was the precursor to modern text-based languages. Her compiler could recieve inputs in plain English instead of symbol code. After the A-3 and B-0 computers were created under her leadership, she attended the two-day computer conference known as CODASYL. It was here that she advised a commitee that defined the computing language COBOL, a revolutionary program that would form the base of most modern computer languages. The COBOL language extended Hopper's earlier work and was later standardized by the U.S. Navy. Hopper also advocated for the Department of Defense to replace centralized computers with computers networks, created standards for the testing of computer systems and components, and helped to converge different commercial coding languages into similar variants. COBOL is still used today.