Unit 13 — People in IT

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This unit discusses influential IT people and how they helped change the world.
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Ada Lovelace Alan Mathison Turing Bill Gates Brendan Eich Charles Babbage Dennis Ritchie Edgar Frank Codd George Boole Gordon Moore Grace Hopper Guido van Rossum James Gosling John Warner Backus Ken Thompson Linus Torvalds Margaret Hamilton Rasmus Lerdorf Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Tim Berners-Lee Vannevar Bush Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Reading Activity: People in IT: True Innovators

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It seems like nowadays we use computers for nearly everything: working, shopping, banking, communicating, learning new things, playing games, listening to music, watching videos, and more. It’s hard to even imagine life without our modern hardware and digital services! Yes, the modern world is fantastic, but have you ever stopped to think about where all this amazing technology came from? Who…
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All modern computers owe a debt to George Boole's algebraic calculations.
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Gordon Moore donated $600 million to Caltech in 2001, which is perhaps the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education.
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In 1947 while working away on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, a moth got stuck in the circuitry and thus the term "computer bug" was coined.
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  • Pick any person from this reading and write a short essay on their life. How do they inspire you?
  • Will you ever be considered a famous or great IT person? Write why or why not.
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