My friend vMiss33 kicked off my day as I opened Twitter this morning and her tweet was there, waiting for a morning of thought and posting.
I did what any grown up would do in this situation, I clearly thought about what would this look like….. When I was at school, a very British school we had houses and actually only the other week I was trying to remember those houses from over 20 years ago and then realised that as I moved up in school years and different schools we had different houses… Shakespeare was the blue house I was in…. anyway not the point of this.
In fact I am merely documenting the tweet thread I got so carried away with in response to vMiss which you can find here
Here goes..
- Compute = Babbage
- Storage = Gulliver
- Network = Kahn
- Security = Thomas
English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.
In 1974, IBM introduced the swinging arm actuator, made feasible because the Winchester recording heads function well when skewed to the recorded tracks. The simple design of the IBM GV (Gulliver) drive.
Bob Kahn (born 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.
Bob Thomas is a computer scientist who is widely regarded as the father of cybersecurity. He gained notoriety in 1971 when he created the first computer virus, called the “Creeper virus.” The virus was not malicious and was designed to demonstrate the vulnerability of computer systems.
This was my initial list but recognise the lack of females so what would an all star female line up look like.
- Ada Lovelace
- Katherine Johnson
- Annie Easley
- Grace Hopper
Lovelace, a mathematician and writer who is often credited with writing the first computer program for Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. Lovelace’s work helped to pave the way for modern computing, and she is often referred to as the “first computer programmer.”
Johnson, NASA researcher whose work on orbital mechanics was crucial to the success of the early U.S. space program. Johnson’s story was popularized in the book and movie “Hidden Figures,” which tells the story of the African-American women who worked at NASA during the Space Race.
Easley, a “human computer” in 1955, where she did calculations by hand and worked as one of four Black employees at the lab. She is best known for building code used to analyze energy alternatives and what eventually became the first early hybrid cars.
Hopper, a computer scientist and Navy rear admiral credited with developing the first compiler, which translates human-readable code into machine language.
A little fun for the morning but also reflective on the things we all touch today. They came from somewhere and these people made our lives easier and better!