Alan Turing was a computer scientist and is considered the founding father of computer science and artificial intelligence. Alan Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London to create an electronic computer. He also designed the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) and it was the first complete specification of an electronic digital computer. Alan Turing also wrote the first-ever programming manual, and his programming system was used in the Ferranti Mark I, the first marketable electronic digital computer.
Timothy Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who was born in London, England on June 8, 1955. After his invention, he was credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web.Later in 2004 he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (€1 million) by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. Computing came naturally to Berners-Lee, as both of his parents worked on the Ferranti Mark I, the first commercial computer. In 1976 Berners-Lee graduated from the University of Oxford Started designing computer software for two years at Plessey Telecommunications. In 1980 he worked as a software engineering consultant at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. In 1989 Berners-Lee proposed the idea of creating a global hypertext document system that would make use of the Internet. His main purpose for this system was to provide researchers with the ability to share their results, techniques, and practices without having to exchange e-mail constantly. “Instead, researchers would place such information online, where their peers could immediately retrieve it anytime, day or night”( Britannica). That was when Berners-Lee first invented the software for the first Web server.
Along with 6 partners Marc founded the Silicon Graphics Inc. in 1982. While part of his company Marc created several computer programs such as Personal IRIS, and improved a chip that one of his co-workers created by both, increasing the processing speeds, and cutting the price of the chip down so it would be more accessible to the public. His chip was then used for the graphics in Star Wars, Beuty and the Beast, Aladdin, Jurassic Park, many Michel Jackson videos, and more. A later graphics chip that was designed for the Nintendo Switch was both smalller and kept the price of the toy to only $250!
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