This unit discusses influential IT people and how they helped change the world.
Now Studying: People in IT
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Listening Comprehension Activity
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Ada Lovelace
Alan Mathison Turing
Bill Gates
Brendan Eich
Charles Babbage
Dennis Ritchie
Edgar Frank Codd
George Boole
Gordon Moore
Grace Hopper
Guido van Rossum
James Gosling
John Warner Backus
Ken Thompson
Linus Torvalds
Margaret Hamilton
Rasmus Lerdorf
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Tim Berners-Lee
Vannevar Bush
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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It seems like nowadays we use computers for nearly everything: working, shopping, banking, communicating, learning new things, playing games, listening to music, watching videos, and more. It’s hard to even imagine life without our modern hardware and digital services!
Yes, the modern world is fantastic, but have you ever stopped to think about where all this amazing technology came from? Who…
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Speaking Practice Activity
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All modern computers owe a debt to George Boole's algebraic calculations.
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Gordon Moore donated $600 million to Caltech in 2001, which is perhaps the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education.
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In 1947 while working away on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, a moth got stuck in the circuitry and thus the term "computer bug" was coined.
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Writing Practice Activity
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- Pick any person from this reading and write a short essay on their life. How do they inspire you?
- Will you ever be considered a famous or great IT person? Write why or why not.
