🎯 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.