🎯 Learning Intention
I will explore key innovators in the history of computing and identify someone I want to research for my biography project.
📘 Quick Notes on Innovators
(Short, simple bullets — just enough to spark interest.)
Ada Lovelace
- Wrote the first algorithm (before computers existed).
- Predicted modern computing in the 1840s.
- Called the “first computer programmer.”
Alan Turing
- Broke the Nazi Enigma code in WWII.
- Created the foundations of computer science and AI.
- Developed the “Turing Test” for machine intelligence.
Grace Hopper
- Invented the first compiler.
- Helped create COBOL, an early business language still used today.
- Famous for coining the term “bug” in computing.
Katherine Johnson
- NASA mathematician who calculated trajectories for Mercury, Apollo, and Shuttle missions.