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In this section, you can find a host of historical figures who may be interesting to you. Do you want your students to understand more about STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics)? Well, here's a list of people worth considering as you teach/coach them to research figures who have impacted our world and the way it functions. The discoveries that were pioneered below will lead to more discoveries in the future. Their early steps make our new steps possible.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
It has been widely established that Sir Tim Berners-Lee established foundational understanding of what we know today as the World Wide Web. You can read more about his accomplishments and what he is doing today HERE. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation.
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
The biographical sketch of Steve Jobs states that he was adopted. Not only that, but his parents did not attend college. Steve was the co-founder of Apple and produced the first PC back in the 1980's. Today Apple is known for products such as iPad, iPod, iPhone, and Mac computer.
Steve Wozniack
Steve Wozniack
Steve Wozniack is known as the co-founder of Apple. He and Steve Jobs built a strong bond in the 1970's and co-collaborated on developing a working PC. Their discoveries later lead to the development of the Apple corporation.
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Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh
Tony designed a company that was eventually bought out by Microsoft for $265 million. This company allowed users to establish banner adds (advertisement/marketing company). After LinkExchange was sold to Microsoft, Tony bought into the shoe company Zappos. Zappos was later acquired for $1.2 billion by Amazon.
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Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace is recorded to be the first woman to design a computer program. In about the 1840's (no, that's not a typo), she recorded an algorithm associated with a "Analytical Engine." The inability to see this work out well is that the engine had not been built yet.
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Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper
Direct quote from Wikipedia: "One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today. "
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Elizabeth J. Feinler
Elizabeth J. Feinler
Direct quote from Wikipedia: "Feinler was leading the Literature Research section of SRI's library when, in 1972, Doug Engelbart recruited her to join his Augmentation Research Center (ARC), which was sponsored by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the US Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Her first task was to write a Resource Handbook for the first demonstration of the ARPANET at the International Computer Communication Conference. By 1974 she was the principal investigator to help plan and run the new Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET...ARPANET [later evolved into] the Defense Data Network (DDN) and the Internet."
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