Tag: Computer science

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Lynn Ann Conway 

Lynn Conway is a famed pioneer of microelectronics chip design. Her innovations during the 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have impacted chip design worldwide. Her work

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Chris Hughes

Hughes co-founded Facebook in 2002, while a Harvard student, with business partners Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum.

In 2016, Hughes co-founded the Economic Security Project (ESP),

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Alan Turing

Turing’s inventions were instrumental in defeating the Nazis during WWII. He devised techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical

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Grace Hopper

Grace Brewster Hopper 

Grace Hopper was a pioneer of computer programming and the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages. Others later expanded upon the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using

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