Computer Science Superhero's

Hedy Lamarr

Life = 11/9/1914 - 1/19/2000

Major Academic Events = She earned the Pioneer Award in 1997, Invention Convention’s Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award,and National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.

Main contributions to Computer Science = She created the Frequency Hopping Communication System- US Patent No. 2,292,387 and Helped design an improved airplane in 1940.

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Alan Turing

Life = June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954

Major Academic Events = He went to King's College (University of Cambridge) in Cambridge, England, studying there from 1931 to 1934, got s Ph.D. from Princeton University for mathematics and cryptology, nd wad awarded an Order of the British Empire.

Main contributions to Computer Science = He created the turing machine, made many addvancements in codebreakings, created the Automatic Computing Engine, and created the turing test to test for artificial intelligence.

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John McCarthy

Life = September 4, 1927 - October 24, 2011

Major Academic Events = He got his bachelor’s degree in mathematics (1948) from the California Institute of Technology, a doctorate in mathematics (1951), from Princeton University, was given the A.M. Turing Award (1971), was given the Kyoto Prize (1988), was given the National Medal of Science (1990),and got the Benjamin Franklin Medal (2003).

Main contributions to Computer Science = He worked on early time sharing systems, coined the term artificial intelligence, created the programing lnguage LISP,and helped create the Elephant 2000.

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