CSC 180 Project Sharing Day
8:00 PM Section
Professor: Dr. Adam P. Anthony
Things to Remember
• Side Note: Consider Adding CSC 199B!
• Midterm Next Tuesday (Review Thursday)
• About the Talk:
– Don’t read the slide too much!
– You have 2-3 minutes
– Pay attention to your peers—be respectful!
– Presentations will be in alphabetical order
David N. Cutler
“Father of Windows NT”
Presented by: James Brown
Applications
Hardware
Abstraction Layer
(HAL)
Hardware
CHARLES BABBAGE
By Tyreese Brown
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1903-1957, Born in Hungary
Explosive lenses in Atomic
and Hydrogen Bombs
Hydrodynamic computations
on computers
Algorithm for ‘Fair Coin’ from
‘Unfair Coin’
Data Structures, Computer
Architecture
Set Theory, Minimax Theorem,
Game Theory, Economics,
Quantum Mechanics
Henry Edward Roberts
Presented by: Kayle Damiano
 Born on September 13 in 1941
 American engineer, entrepreneur and medical
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doctor
Known as the “Father of the Personal Computer”
Founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry
Systems (MITS)
Designed the first commercially successful
personal computer
Employed Bill Gates and Paul Allen at MITS
 "Ed deserves to be called the father of the personal
computer." -Bill Gates
Edsger Dijkstra
Presented by: Aric Gady
•Born in 1930
•Developed the shortest path-algorithm
•Won numerous awards
•Died in 2002
•Dijkstra Prize
Ada Lovelace,
1815-1852
•First Computer Programmer
•Analysis of Babbage’s Analytical Engine
•Mathematician, Analyst, Writer
•Compelling Life Story
•19th Century woman – ahead of her time
•Visionary – Milestone in Computer History
Presented by: Annette Hartman
-Painting by Margaret Carpenter (1793-1872), public domain.
Portrait of Ada Augusta Byron King. Owned by British Govt.
Source: <wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Lovelace.jpg>
-Photo credit – Doron Swade. Second construction of Babbage
Difference Engine completed 2008. Commissioned and owned
by Nathan Myhrvold. Source: The Computer History Museum
website, <computerhistory.org/babbage/>
Annette Hartman
Topic Sharing Presentation
CSC-180-SE1, Fall 2010
Dr. Robert Kahn
Co-Inventor: TPC/IP
Presented by: Thomas Hood
Photo by NASA 2006
 Who is Bob Kahn, and why are we talking
about him?
 What are his major contributions to
Computer Science?
 What is TCP/IP. And why are we talking
about it?
Tim Berniers-Lee
Presented by William Kerbusch
Early life
 Born in London, later graduating from Oxford
 Worked for CERN, started working on hypertext
ENQUIRE and the basis for the World Wide Web
Necessity and innovation
Founding of W3C and work at MIT
Current work
Net Neutrality and building a better Web
Ada Augusta Byron Lovelace
Presented by: Anna
Marchuk
Born: 1815 Died: 1852 at age 36
Considered to be the “First Computer Programmer”
Daughter of the English Poet Lord George Byron
Very talented mathematician
1830’s – Babbage designed “Analytical Engine”
L.F. Menebrea wrote a article describing the
function and theory of the A.E. in French
Babbage urged Ada to translate the article into
English
Her added notes were 3 times the length of the
original article
Included diagrams which showed steps used to
instruct AE to solve particular problems
Late 1970’s government created programming
language was named “Ada” in her honor
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Is an American inventor, entrepreneur and author
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Discoveries in parallel computing
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Designed the Connection Machine
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Cofounded the Thinking Machine Cooperation
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Purpose was to develop parallel super computers
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And also to explore pathways to building artificial
intelligence
Presented by: Edward Nunez
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Presented by: Christina Rios
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Born December 9, 1906 in New York City
Received Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale in
1934
Joined the Naval Reserve in 1943
Appointed to the Bureau of Ordnance &
Computation Project
Assisted in programming Mark I,II & III
computers
Pushed developers to share code
Programs can be written in English words
Contributions include the compiler, COBOL and
FLOW-MATIC
Photo Credit:
James S. Davis
U.S. Naval Historical Center
Online Library Photograph NH
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Larry Page
Presented by: Maria Ripich
•Larry’s childhood
•Role Models-parents and Tesla
•Start of Google-Stanford
•List what Google entails
•Conflicts/Debatable Issues
•What the future has in store
Leonard Kleinrock
Presented by: Brandon Russo
• Known as the “Father of the Internet”
• Born on June 13, 1934
•Prof. of Computer Science at UCLA
• Invented the idea of Packet Switching
•Founder of Nomadix
•Made the first message ever to pass over the internet
•Awarded the National Medal of Science
Presented by: Kyle Seman
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Made the first Parallel
Super Computer.
•Was the Vice-President at
Disney Imagineering.
•Designer of a 10,000 year
old clock.
Dr. John E. Warnock
Presented by: Nicholas Snyder
Highly Educated
 “Warnock Algorithm”
 Invented Interpress
 Founded Adobe
 ProScript and Beyond
 PDF
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Presented by: Jason Vasil
Linus and Linux
Presented by: Alex Yeh
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Open source
Flexible
Supports compilers for many languages
Popularity in server market