Elizabeth Feinler was born on March second, 1931, and is still alive. She originally wanted to get a Ph.D. in biochemistry, but her plans changed as she was low on money, she wanted a job for a couple years before writing her thesis. Her new job was assistant editor on a project trying to index chemical compounds. There, she worked to make a minor contribution by working on the handbook of Psychopharmacology and the Chemical Process Economics Handbook. All as the data was intriguing to her so she never did return to biochemistry. She joined the Stanford Research Institute International and leaded the literature research section of the library. There, she worked to make a minor contribution by working on the handbook of Psychopharmacology and the Chemical Process Economics Handbook. While there she was recruited to work at the augmented research center. First she was writing a handbook for the demonstration of the ARPANET, then she became the principal investigator to help plan and run the new Network Information Center for ARPANET. Her biggest accomplishment is that she and her group created web domains like (.com,) (.web,) (.edu,) (.gov,) (.org,) and (.mil.) Scources: Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
Leonard Adleman was born on December 31, 1945. He got his Bachelor of Science in Berkley mathematics. Later, he went back to Barkley ad got his Ph.D. in computer science in 1976. He s now the Distinguished Henry Salvatori Professor of Comphttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonard-M-Adlemanuter Science at the University of Southern California. He was awarded the Paris Kanellakis award with many partners in 1996, and with two of those partners, Ronald Rinest ad Adi Shamir, he earned the IEEE award for computers and the Communications award in 2000. He has many more awards, but he also made big contributions to computer science. The three scientists went on to get the A.M. Turing Award for making (public-key cryptography useful in practice.) They patented this and it became Adleman’s most known contribution, RSA encryption. One of his smaller victories was in his paper, (Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems) where he described the experimentational use of DNA as a computational system. Because of that he is now called the father of DNA computing. Scources: Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1914, and died on February 24, 2020. She was very good at math and started high school at the early age of 10. She went to college at 15 years old and graduated at 18. She taught black students math for a while, then enrolled at graduate school at West Virginia University. She studied math for a while, but then left to start a family and go back to teaching. In 1953 she learned about a job at a place now known as NASA. The job looked for black women with good computing and math skills. Her job was to be a computing innovation, a human computer. In that job she had to figure out different calculations needed for spaceflight. That is not all she did there, she also defied segregation, like going to the white women's restroom. One of her biggest accomplishments at NASA was helping calculate the trajectory of the countrys first human spaceflight in 1961. A year later she helped find out John Glenns orbit of the planet which was another American first. In 1969, she calculated the path of Neil Armstrongs historic mission to the moon on Apollo 11. The sad thing is that she was forgotten, and all the white men were credited with all of these discoveries. Sources: Source 1 Source 2 Source 3