Katherine Johnson

Contributions to Computer Science:
During the cold war, Johnson did the trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard's mission
Freedom 7, the first ever human spaceflight in America. She worked along another engineer
and their research was put in a report where she was given credit for it. Johnson had yet another part
in our history with space. During the Cold War when the space race was happening, America
wanted to send a man to the moon. In 1969 we succeeded with the help of Katherine Johnson. She, by hand, calculated
Apollo 11's flight trajectories and made Neil Armstrong the first ever man on the moon.
To add on, just a couple years prior, she worked in the mission Friendship 7 to help make John Glen be the first American
ever to orbit the Earth. America would never have gotten so far in space exploration without her.

Sources
Cloff, S. (2016, November 22). Katherine Johnson Biography. NASA. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography
Encyclopedia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Katherine Johnson. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Katherine-Johnson-mathematician
Toole, T. C. (2021, May 3). Katherine Johnson, who helped send Apollo to the Moon, wins Hubbard Medal. History. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/katherine-johnson-mathematician-sent-apollo-moon-wins-hubbard-medal#:~:text=Most%20notably%2C%20in%201969%20she,and%20graduated%20four%20years%20later.

Major Academic Events
Wrote and published the paper, "Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"
Turing Award (Nobel Prize of Computing) was named after him

Contributions to Computer Science:
In the mid 1940's, Turing designed a computer. This computer was the ACE, the Automatic Computing Engine. If the computer was made as designed, it would have held more memory and been faster. Because of delays and others thinking the design was to complicated to attempt, the ACE was not the first person computer, but along the first couple.In World War 2, the Axis powers stayed in contact with each other with coded messages. The Bomba was designed to decode these messages for the Allies, however, a change in the way the messages were sent made the Bomba useless. Turing, along with others, designed the Bombe which was very similar to the Bomba but worked more effectively for the new coded messages.

Sources
Encyclopedia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Alan Turing. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turing
AE Networks Television. (2020, July 22). Alan Turing. Biography.com. Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://www.biography.com/scientist/alan-turing
Alan Turing - Biography. Maths History. (n.d.). Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Turing/

Larry Page

Major Academic Events
Attended the Academy of Achievement's International Achievement Summit in London as graduate student delegates
Recieved the Academy's Golden Plate Award
Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan

Contributions to Computer Science:
Larry Page at the age 38 was the cofounder of Google along side Sergey Brin in September of 1998. Page's parents were computer scientists so Page has an early intrest in computers so much that he took apart machines when he was younger to see how they functioned. Page met Brin at a Ph.D. program at Standord which Brin was already apart of. After working together and creating an algorithm called PageRank, Brin and Page quickly realized that they could create a powerful search engine for everyone to use. This engine was names Google and made billions overnight. Now, Google is used over 8.5 billion times a day!

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Larry Page. Academy of Achievement. (2022, March 4). Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/
Home. FAMOUS INVENTORS. (n.d.). Retrieved September 28, 2022, from https://www.famousinventors.org/larry-page