Birth: She was born on December 9th, 1906.
Death: She died on January first, 1992.
Major Academic Events: She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 1934. Then in 1952, she created the first compiler for computer languages. She continued to win many awards including the Nation Medal of Technology in 1991 and a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
Contributions to Computer Science: Grace hopper was the first women to program the first computer in the USA. She developed the first computer complier and the first programing language which revolutionized the world of computers.
Sources Amy Tikkanen, Biography of Grace Hopper from Britannica:https: britannica.com/biography/Grace-Hopper
Sources Biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper
Sources Mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Hopper/
Birth: Guido Van Rossum was born January 31, 1956.
Death: Guido Van Rossum is not dead.
Major Academic Events : Guido Van Rossum received a master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam. In 1974, he received a bronze medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Contributions to Computer Science.: Guido Van Rossum is the one responsible for creating Python, which is one of the most popular coding languages used today.
Sourcesguido-van-rossum-on-types-speed-and-the-future-of-python
Sourcesblog.dropbox.com/topics/work-culture/-the-mind-at-work--guido-van-rossum-on-how-python-makes-thinking
Sourcestechcrunch.com/2020/11/12/python-creator-guido-van-rossum-joins-microsoft/?guccounter
Birth: Larry Page was born March 26, 1973.
Death: Larry Page is not dead.
Major Academic Events : In 1995, Lary Page received a major in computer engineering at the University of Michigan, three years later he got his masters in computer science from Standford University.
Contributions to Computer Science: Larry page created the search engine Google, which is the most popular search engine on the internet.
Source www.britannica.com/biography/Larry-Page
Source lemelson.mit.edu/resources/sergey-brin-and-larry-page#:~:text=The%20first%20incarnation%20of%20their,links%20pointing%20to%20a%20website
Source achievement.org/achiever/larry-page/