Famous Computing Scientists

Famous Computing Scientist Presentations

Your task is to create a short presentation about a famous computing scientist. Your presentation will be between 3 and 5 sides long. After you create it you will get the chance to give your presentation to the class.

Your presentation must include the following information:

• A picture of the famous computing scientist
• Their full name
• When they were born and, if they are dead, when they died
• Where they are from, and where and who they worked for
• What they are famous for
• Five interesting facts about them

As well as this, make sure that your presentation is colourful, eye catching an makes good use of animations and transitions.

You must not copy and paste information from the internet

When you copy the information from a wiki page you are plagiarising it. Teachers consider plagiarism to be a form of cheating and if they catch you, you will usually lose marks or be asked to complete the work again.

It is very easy to spot when someone has copied and pasted words from a web page. Try to put the information in your poster into your own words. The following guide will help you put things into your own words:

Alternately, you can choose another famous computing scientist that you know of. Check with your teacher first if they will be ok to do.

Extension task:

Notes pages in PowerPoint are a good way of recording information that you want to talk about in a presentation. Your teacher will show you how to use the notes pages. Add information to them to help you remember what you have to say when doing your presentation in front of the class.