Hedy Lamarr- Birth-1914, Death-2000
Academic Awards- The Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly awarded Lamarr and Antheil with their Pioneer Award. Lamarr also became the first woman to receive the Invention Convention 's Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award. She was uneducated and she was self-taught herself.
Major contributions to computer science- Hedy Lamarr is known for inventing the basis for all modern wireless communications: signal hopping. She also recruited George Antheil, a composer she met through MGM Studios, in order to create what was known as a Secret Communication System. The idea behind the invention was to create a system that constantly changed frequencies, making it difficult for the Axis powers to decode the radio messages. This helped Hedy Lamarr make "Wi-fi".
Interesting Facts- Hedy Lamarr was also an actress that was very popular.
Vinton Cerf- Birth-1943, Death-Still Alive
Academic Events- U.S. National Medal of Technology, An ACM Alan M. Turing Award, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, The Japan Award, The Franklin Award, Marconi Prize, Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, Draper Prize, Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, SIGCOMM Award, Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award, Harold Pender Award
His education degrees consist of a Bachelor of Science from Stanford, a Masters of Science and a Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA.
Major contributions to Computer Science- Vint Cerf is considered to be one of the fathers of the internet, having been the co-inventor of TCP/IP, having led influential work at DARPA, then at MCI, where he pioneered an email platform called MCI Mail. He was a major part of the development of Internet related data transport and security while he worked with DARPA. He also wrote the communication protocols for the ARPANET, and is working on an interplanetary internet.
Interesting fact- He has about 20+ honorary doctorate degrees all from different schools around the world. I also found it was interesting his first degree wasn't even in Computer Science but rather in science in general.
Citation-
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinton-Cerf
https://www.nist.gov/director/vcat/biography-dr-vinton-g-cerf
https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/members/past_members/cerf.jsp
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland- Birth-1938, Death-Still Alive
Academic Events- George Westinghouse Scholar (1955-1959); American Institute of Electrical Engineers Student Prize Paper Contest for District 2 Winner (1958, 1959); National Science Foundation Fellowship (1959 – 1962); National Academy of Engineering First Zworykin Award (1972); Member, National Academy of Engineering (1973); Member, National Academy of Sciences (1978); IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1986); Computerworld Honors Program, Leadership Award (1987); ACM Turing Award (1988); ACM Software System Award (1993); Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF Pioneer Award (1994); Association for Computing Machinery Fellow (1994); Price Waterhouse Information Technology Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement (1996); Computerworld Smithsonian Award (1996); the Franklin Institute's Certificate of Merit (1996); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (1998); R&D 100 Award (team) (2004); Computer History Museum Fellow (2005); Kyoto Prize (2012).
He studied many degrees at many universities.
Major contributions to Computer Science- In 1963, Ivan Sutherland engineered a revolution in computer graphics with his highly-interactive program Sketchpad. He is known as the father of computer graphics, with his student Bob created the very first virtual reality headset. Ivan Sutherland was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and served as an electrical engineer in the National Security Agency (1963) and then as a researcher at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (1964), where he initiated projects in time-sharing systems and artificial intelligence.
Interesting fact- For a 12th-grade science fair project, he made a magnetic drum memory with 128 2-bit words.
