Annie Easley
Birth: April 23, 1933
Death: June 25, 2011
Major Academic Events: She started to go to school for Pharmacy, but saw an ad about women working on the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and proceeded to be hired as a human computer. Eventually she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1977 at Cleveland State University.
Contributions to Computer Science: She was one of the first African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist to work at NASA. She worked on nuclear-powered rockets, created computer programs to determine solar winds, and storage life of electric utility vehicle batteries.
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Clarence "Skip" A. Ellis
Birth: May 11, 1943
Death: May 17, 2014
Major Academic Events: He received his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics in 1964 at Beloit College and the first African-American to receive his Doctorate in Computer Science in 1969 at University of Illinois
Contributions to Computer Science: He helped create the techniques that are currently used to do real-time collaboration editing of the same documents while he lead a Groupware Research Group at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC). At the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), he worked with a group that helped invent the idea of clicking on icons to load certain computer programs to make computers more user-friendly and how to communicate through long distances.
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Carl Sassenrath
Birth: Jan 1, 1957
Major Academic Events: He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1980 at University of California
Contributions to Computer Science: He was the creator of the multi-tasking ability for computers (being able to do multiple programs at once) in 1985 when he joined Hewlett Packard's Computer Systems Division. He also collaborated in building some of the first Operating Systems and created his own programming language called REBOL (Relative Expression-Based Object Language).
Sources: “Carl Sassenrath - Architect of Operating Systems and Languages.” Carl Sassenrath - Architect of Operating Systems and Languages, https://sassenrath.com/.
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