Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Key people of computing
- Steve Jobs
- Jobs started making Apple in 1976 with his partner, Steve Wozniak.
- In 1998, Apple released the iMac and it sold a
staggering 800,000 units in the first six months
- In 2007 Apple released the iPhone, a phone that
reveloutionised the smartphone industry.
- Steve Jobs was born on february 24th, 1956.
- Jobs attended Reed College in 1972 only to drop out in 1974
so he would be able to travel to India and study buddhism.
- Grace Hopper
- Grace Hopper was born on December 9th, 1902.
- In 1943, Hopper swore herself into the United States Navy Reserve.
- In 1944, she was the first person to program the Harvard Mark I computer.
- Hopper was able to popularise the computer term 'debugging'.
- Hopper began teaching mathematics in 1931.
- Bill Gates
- Gates was born on October 28th, 1955.
- He was the CEO of Microsoft on July 2000.
- Gates was born in Seattle, Washington.
- Gates enrolled in Harvard college in 1973.
- At 13, Gates attended Lakeside school.
- Alan Turing
- Turing was born on June 23rd, 1912
- Alan Turing was a computer scientist,
logician, mathematical biologist and
many more.
- Turing had a heavy impact on the
development of computer science.
- As Turing was the developer of computer
programming language, he is sometimes referred
to as the father of theoretical computer science
and A.I..
- In 1952, Turing was prosecuted
for homosexual acts.