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Steve Wozniak

Birth: August 11, 1950

Major Academic Events:

  1. Received a degree in electrical engineering/computer science from UC Berkeley.
  2. Has received ten Honorary Doctor of Engineering degrees.
  3. Was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the nation’s highest award for inventors.
  4. In 2000, Wozniak was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame.
  5. Awarded the Hoover Medal.
  6. Listed on the Top 50 Keynote Speakers in the World

Other Contributions:

  1. Co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs.
  2. Was one of the main designers of the Apple I and the Macintosh.
  3. The Apple II had a floppy disk, built in keyboard, and a color monitor.

Ada Lovelace

Birth: December 10, 1815

Death: November 27, 1852

Major Academic Events:

  1. Studied with the famous mathematician Augustus De Morgan
  2. Helped describe Charles Babbage's famous Analytical Machine, even adding her own thoughts, including the world’s first computer program.
  3. The second Tuesday in October each year is now known as Ada Lovelace Day.

Other Contributions:

  1. Thanks to her open mindedness and creative thinking skills, Lovelace’s computer program was nearly a century ahead of its time.
  2. Her theory that computers will not be able to create original work without learning from humans still holds true to this day, over two hundred years after her death.
  3. She recognized the limitless potential of the computer, suggesting that it could manipulate not only numbers, but symbols as well.
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