Personalities Assignment

 Charles Babbage

Nationality: English

Accomplishments/ Contributions:

He was an economist and wrote a book, "on the economy of machinery and manufactures".

He also worked on philosophy.

He also invented a type of speedometer.

Contributions towards computer Science:

He is a founding architect of computing as his work gives the principles for modern-day computing .for example: He gives designs for mechanical calculating machines such as Analytical Engine which was later constructed and used for mathematical calculation.

Linking element:

I studied in early class that Charles Babbage invented Abacus

Douglas Engelbert

Nationality: American

Accomplishments / Contributions:

He works in the field of human-computer interaction for example word processing, email, etc

He works and studies graphical user interface and groupware

He also gives the idea of bootstrapping

LAW: 

Engelbert's Law

Contributions Towards Computer Science:

He created the design of a computer mouse, windows ,and a primitive keyboard system

Linking Element:

His work can easily be linked with the processes we used at times example: emails, online help systems, shared-screen teleconferencing, etc

Grace Hopper

Nationality: American

Accomplishments/ Contributions:

She invented Compiler for the first time which translates symbolic mathematical code to machine code 

She also serves as a rear admiral in US Navy

She also invented COBOL which is a programming language

Contributions Towards Computer Science:

She was an awesome Computer Programmer She gives a lot of techniques, work, and also some principles about it 

Linking Element:

By inventing Compiler she makes the use of computer possible for us as it includes an understanding of language

Lovelace Ada:

Nationality: English

Accomplishments / Contributions:

She was a mathematician writer and analyst

She published a set of instructions for programming Analytical Engine in 1843

She also wrote an unpublished review of a paper by Baron Karl von Reichenbach

Contributions Towards Computer science: 

She also works in software development 

She recognized that computing machines can also do things other than calculations example: graphics, musical composition, etc 

Linking Element:

We are using a Computer for a wide variety of tasks today because of her

Sinclair Clive:

Nationality: English

Accomplishments / Contributions:

He was an entrepreneur, innovator, and businessman

He is known as the father of home Computing in the UK

He also attempted to make a battery-powered three-wheeled vehicle called Sinclair C5

Linking Element:

Home computers and pocket calculators are linking elements of its contributions in our daily life

Contributions Towards Computer Science:

He invents pocket calculators first time and different spectrum computers

Turing Alan

Nationality: English

Accomplishments / Contributions:

He was a mathematician and computer scientist 

He published a paper giving a model for a mathematical calculating machine in 1936

He proposed the Turing Test for artificial intelligence which is in use even today

Contributions Towards Computer Science:

He designed the Automatic Computing Engine when working at National Physical Laboratory

He also developed Manchester Computers when working at Max Newman's Computing Machine Laboratory

LAW:

Alan Turing Law 

Linking Element:

Solving mathematical problems through mechanical means have appropriate applications in our daily life 

Von Neumann John 

Nationality: Hungarian

Accomplishments / Contributions:

He wrote about artificial life in his book: "theory of self-reproducing automata"

He received the Bocher prize in 1937

He also received the Model of freedom and Enrico fermi Award in 1956

Contributions Towards Computer Science:

He designs computers logically and his design is called "Von Neumann Architecture"

Linking Element:

His work on cellular automata can explain processes like the development of multicellular organisms which is linked to our life in some places