Ada Lovelace
Dec. 10, 1815 - Nov. 27, 1852: When Ada Lovelace was active, she was one of the most advanced thinkers during her time. Ada studied advanced mathematics at London University. Lovelace is credited to have had the idea for a programming language when her notes and ideas were found 100 years later. She was the first to realize a computer's capabilities being on just computing simple numbers. She was brilliant for her time, at the early age of 12 she even made a concept for a flying machine!
Ada Bryon, Countess of Lovelace
Computer History - Ada Lovelace
Phiillip Don Estridge
June 23, 1937 - August 2, 1985: Philip Don Estridge graduated from the University of Florida in 1958. Known as the father of the IBM personal computer, he led development of the original IBM pc. He also made the decision that the computer would be made off the shelf, this made it accessible very easily and this design was also made public for all. An interesting thing about him was, I found that he was offered a multi-million-dollar job from Steve Jobs to be the president of Apple, Philip declined
School To Be Named After Phillip Don Estridge
Alan Turing
June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954: Alan Turing was one of the first and most famous people in computer science history. Alan Turing graduated from Princeton University. He created a concept that is essential for computer science called the Turing Machine. A fun fact about Turing is that he actually built devices that cracked the German's Enigma Code Machines. He is credited for saving 2 years of war time, saving 14 million people's lives.
