Elizabeth Feinler
Elizabeth Feinler was born on March 2nd, 1931. She graduated from West Liberty University in 1954 with a B.S degree in chemistry. Feinler then attended Purdue University for biochemistry. After this, she joined the Shuman Chemical Company and the Chemical Abstracts Service. To start her computer science career, Elizabeth Feinler joined Dr. Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center and started working on the Internet. Her main contributions to Computer Science were managing the ARPNET: the first public workable Internet, the Defense Data Network, and the network information centers. These impacted the computer science world as they were the start of the internet we use today. She helped invent the Host Naming Registry for the Internet and the naming of .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org, and .net. These are extremely useful and are still utilized every day. Also, Feinler has won the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame Award. Furthermore, Feinler helped bring networking to NASA telescope sites. Now, she volunteers for the Computer History Museum, helping continue her previous projects.
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Larry Page
Larry Page was born on March 26th, 1973. He attended the University of Michigan in 1995 and received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. Next, he attended Stanford for a doctorate where he created Google, the most used search engine in the world. He created Google using an algorithm called PageRank. Google has changed the world as it is used nearly every day. It has also changed computer science by creating a new search engine that has impacted billions of people. The PageRank program has influenced many other search engines, advancing the computer science world. Page made Google with Sergey Brin, whom he met at Stanford, in Page's dormitory. Page also attended the Academy of Achievemet's International Achievement Summit and was awarded the Academy's Golden Plate Award. Also, both his parents are associated with computer science and programming and their family home had many computers. In addition, Larry Page has donated over twenty million dollars to medical research programs.
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Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton was born on August 17, 1936. At the University of Michigan and Earlham College, Margaret studied mathematics. Hamilton also taught mathematics at George C Marshall high-school. Margaret had the intention to pursue graduate work at Brandeis University but she took up a position at MIT. At MIT Hamilton developed a software that could predict the weather. For 2 years (1961-1963) Margaret worked at Lincoln Laboratories and worked on the US SAGE air defense. She worked on a software that differentiated the radar signature of aircrafts from electronic noise. This played a key role in the US Cold War efforts. After this, Margaret led a team that wrote code for NASA's Apollo command modules and lunar modules. Hamilton's work on the Apollo mission later led to her development of her Universal Systems Language. She founded and is the CEO of Hamilton Technologies, Inc. With everything Margaret has done, she won the NASA Exceptional Space Act Award in 2003 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Barack Obama (2016). Margaret has made a huge impact on the world creating many opportunities. She has allowed many more to follow in her footsteps. The LGP-30 Computer that Margaret used to develop her weather prediction software costs around 500,000 USD or $47,000 in 1956.
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