Ivan Sutherland was born May 16, 1938, 84 years old, and is still alive today. He attended MIT in 1963, he also attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the California institute of Technology Won many awards like the Turing award, Kyoto prize in advanced technology, John Von Neumann Medal, and the Emanuel R. Piore Award. Sutherlands main contributions to computer science were that he fathered the invention of computer graphics, he also developed the first virtual reality headset. His invention of computer graphics and virtual reality helped shape the foundation of innovation and development. The most interesting thing I found out about my superhero was that he was the one who invented the VR headset and seeing how different and how far that invention has come.
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Margaret Hamilton was born August 17, 1936, 86 years old, and is still alive today. Hamilton attended Earlham College, and the University of Michigan. Hamiltons major contributions to Computer Science were that she was deemed one of the first computer software programmers, she was also responsible for the software that was used to aid Buzz Aldridge and Neil Armstrong in their mission to the moon. Her intelligence in software programming helped shape the way for future software programmers leading a path of development and creativity. The most interesting thing I found out about my Superhero was that she helped the first two people land on the moon.
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Mark Dean was born on March 2, 1957, in Jefferson City, Tennessee and is still alive today.He then went to the University of Tennessee, where he got top of his class, while majoring engineering. Years later he would be made an IBM Fellow in his company and appointed into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.He is credited with the contribution of launching the personal computer age. This age made machines work more efficiently and allowed it to be more accessible.He also directed the building of the first gigahertz chip. He is continuing to evolve the personal computer. Making changes and trying to improve it more.
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