My Computer Science Superheroes

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Mark Dean
Birth: March 2, 1957

Education: He attended Jefferson City High School and was recognized by his classmates and teachers mostly of white race because of his intellect and straight A-grades. He slowly developed an interest in science and technology.

Major and Minor contributions to Computer Science: He played of role of supplying three patents for the first IBM personal Computer which was released in 1981. He also contributed things like the PS/2 Models 70 and 80. He also lead the team that built a gigahertz (1000mhz) chip whichw as capable of doing a billion calculations per second.

Sources:
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/computer-science/dean_mark.html
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dean-mark-1957/
https://blog.teachcomputing.org/mark-dean/




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Kathleen Booth
Birth: July 9, 1922

Education: She got a B.Sc. in Mathematics, from the University of London in 1944 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1950.

Major and Minor contributions to Computer Science: She is credited for inventing the first assembly language, and she is the designer of the autocode (ARC and APE(X)C) at Birkbeck College. She co-founded the School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck College and also published a book on the APE(X). She was notable for being an early author on books of programming.

Sources:
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/32489/Kathleen-Booth/
http://wit.library.cornell.edu/show.html?id=38
https://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/andrew-and-kathleen-booth-memorial-lecture-marks-100th-birthday-of-pioneering-computer-scientist




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Vint Cerf
Birth: June 23, 1943

Education: He has a Bachelors Degree in mathematics from Stanford in California. He also has a Masters Degree and PhD from UCLA.

Major and Minor contributions to Computer Science: He is widely recognized as the "Father of the internet" and one of his biggest contributions to Computer Science was the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) that enabled digital computers to communicate over long distances.

Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinton-Cerf
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/vinton-cerf
https://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/biography-dr-vinton-g-cerf