My Computer Science Superheroes!

Alan Turing was born on June 23,1912 and died on June 7,1954. He attended Cambridge University to pursue his interest in mathematics. He later went to Princeton University to get his PhD. One of Alan Turing's biggest contributions is cracking the Nazi's enigma code which prevented millions of lives from being lost. Another one of his contributions is the "Turing Test" which tested the hypothesis of whether computers could think and if they were human like or not. In fact this test still stands to this day and has been tested on Alexa, Google Assistant, and other machines. For his inventions Alan won the Smith's prize by the University of Cambridge, was honored by King George VI for his services during World War 2, and was elected to be a fellow of the Royal Society of London.

Larry Page was born on March 26, 1979 and is still alive today. He got his bachelors degree in computer engineering at the University of Michigan. He then went to Stanford University for his masters in computer science. One of his best known accomplishments is cofounding Google along with his roommate Sergey Brin. The pair first built the technology called PageRank which was an algorithm that measured the importance of website pages. When you search up anything on Google it uses PageRank to see which websites to display first in search results. The pair won the Golden Plate Award, were national finalists for the EY Entrepeneur of the Year Award, and their innovation, Google, won the most Oustanding Search Service.

Hedy Lamarr was born on Novermber 9, 1914 and died on January 19, 2000. Hedy Lamarr is known as a popular actress in the golden age of hollywood. But not many know that she was also interested in engineering. In fact she and George Anthiel recieved the Pioneer Award for their invention. Their invention could do "frequency hopping" which is the backbone of WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS. Their invention was also able to minimize the jamming of radio signals which is prevalent in todays technology. In fact it can be found in Satellites, cellular phone technology, and in military technology. Even to this day the US military still uses this invention!