So, let's get started. Now I'm not really going to go into full detail about them since we already talked about them before, but, I'll briefly say some important things about them. Just stuff you've already seen and heard before. If you want to hear more about them, I don't know why, and I'm not judging, so I'll link the padlet website at the end, even though Mrs. Brown already put it in ctls. Like I said, I'm just writing because I can. This extra stuff, not required.
Firstly, the mathematician himself, "Alan Mathinson Turing". You know he's important when he's got math in his name.
Alan Turing, born June 23, 1912, London, England was a British mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematics, cryptanalysis, logic, philosophy, and mathematical biology and also to the new areas later named computer science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life. He died at age 41 on June 7, 1954, in Wilmslow, Cheshire. At a young age, he displayed signs of high intelligence which some of his teachers had recognized, but they didn't really respect him. When he attended the well-known independent Sherborne School at the age of 13, Turing became interested in math and science. After Sherborne, he enrolled at King's College (University of Cambridge) in Cambridge, England and stuied there from 1931 to 1934. In 1936, he delivered a paper, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem," in which he presented a universal machine (later called the "Universal Turing Machine," and then the "Turing machine") capable of computing anything that is computable: It is considered "the precursor" to the modern computer. Over the next two years, Alan studied mathematics and cryptology at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1938, he returned to Cambridge, and then took a part-time position with the Government Code and Cypher School, a British code-breaking organization. "Turing's contributions to the code-breaking process didn't stop there: He also wrote two papers about mathematical approaches to code-breaking, which became such important assets to the Code and Cypher School (later known as the Government Communications Headquarters) that the GCHQ waited until April 2012 to release them to the National Archives of the United Kingdom".
Fun fact, he also created the 'Turing Machine', and it was said to compute anything "computable"; it was considered the 'precursor' to the modern day computer. I know I already said that before, but now you know guys with math in their name are pretty smart.
Next up, we got Marc Hannah. Now, I don't really know much about him, but I saw something and I just loved it. I think you're gonna love it too. No spoilers yet though.
Electrical engineer and computer graphics designer Marc Regis Hannah was born on October 13, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois to his two parents, Hubert, an accountant, and Edith, a teacher, who emphasized education with their five children. Marc did well in school, especially in math and science. He got a scholarship from AT&T's Bell Labs to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, graduating with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1977. He then attended Stanford University earning an M.S. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1985. While at Stanford, He worked with Jim Clark, a professor of engineering. In 1982, along with five other partners, they founded Silicon Graphics, Inc. in Mountain View, California. The company attracted over "$30 million in venture capital support, largely stemming from Clark's invention of the "Geometry Engine," a computer chip/ processor that improved 3-D image manipulation, allowing a computer user to easily see an image from multiple angles". Some of his selected awards are Professional Achievement Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1987; Professional Achievement Award, National Technical Association, 1987. In 1982, Hannah co-founded Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) with Jim Clark and five others. In 1986, he was named the company's 'principal scientist' for creating computer programs like Personal IRIS, Indigo, Indigo2, and Indy graphics that were used to create effects for movies like Jurassic Park, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunt for Red October, and Field of Dreams. George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic used Silicon Graphics' technology to create Terminator 2. Marc Hannah's programs have also been used to create television commercials and the opening introduction for Monday Night Football. The company's technology was used in engineering, research, and for military applications.
Yep, right here, this is the part I was talking about. I mean, how cool is that! I watched those movies! And then I got to do research on the special effects creator guy. Maybe not that big of a deal but it's still pretty cool.
And last but not least, we have the reason for most of our coding today, Science expertise, Vinton Cerf.
Vinton Cerf was born on June 23rd, 1943 and is known as one of the Fathers of the Internet. With his design of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a model known as TCP/IP, these models basically are the backbone of internet and laid the foundation for further development with the internet. Cerf has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Stanford University, a masters degree, and a doctorate in computer science from University of California-Los Angeles. His model of the TCP/IP led to the expansion of something called the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) which was a technical internet foundation. Vinton Cerf received numerous awards, the most prestigious being the Turing Award (2004) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005). One of his more minor contributions are when he worked for the MCI Digital Information Services and managed the MCI Mail, the beginning of email communication associated with the start of the internet. Interestingly, Vinton Cerf is the Chief Internet evangelist and the Vice President of Google.
funny how I wrote entire sermons on the other two but bare minimum on the very creator of the internet himself. Am I tired? Yes, but not the reason though. I guess we'll never know
Here's the link I mentioned earlier. The Heroes in the flesh.... Well, digitally :)
Also, here are the links to the different sources;
Alan Turing
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/8-things-didnt-know-alan-turing
https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/alan-turings-everlasting-contributions-com
Marc Hannah
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/marc-hannah-41
https://id.iit.edu/people/dr-marc-r-hannah/
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/hannah-marc-regis-1956/
Vint Cerf
Dr. Vinton G. Cerf | Science Mission Directorate (nasa.gov)
Vinton Cerf | Lemelson (mit.edu)
Vint Cerf - History of the Internet (internethistory.org)