TABLE OF CONTENTS Advancing Technology Problem Solvers Groundbreaking Programmers Mathematical Trailblazers The Power behind Computers Internet Innovators Networking Technology Timeline Glossary Source Notes Index 4 6 14 16 20 22 26 28 30 30 32
ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY Many stories of people behind important advances in technology are just beginning to be told People like Ada Lovelace who was the world's first computer programmer in the 1800s and Grace Hopper who developed some of the first modern computer programming languages are finally receiving recognition Lovelace and Hopper helped make modern computers possible
Lovelace discovered that a computer could follow a program or a series of instructions From the invention of color television to how we use the internet people from underrepresented groups have played a key role These innovators completed groundbreaking work that made possible many modern devices and tools that we use every day Hopper second from right works on an early commercial computer in 1960
