One of the goals of this capstone is to provide graduating seniors with a broad perspective on the discipline of computer science. Each week, students will present short (5-10 minute) biographies of impactful computing pioneers. Each presentation should include the following:

• the name and birth/death dates for that person
• their personal background
• important positions that they held
• awards and recognitions received
• key ideas and advancements that person is known for

Each presenter should prepare 1-2 pages of notes for their presentation, including a list of at least three reputable sources used in their research. The presentation notes will be turned in via Blueline before class.

The computing pioneers to be presented this semester are:

1. Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
2. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
3. John von Neumann (1903-1957)
4. John Atanasoff (1903-1995)
5. Grace Hopper (1906-1992)
6. Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)
7. Alan Turing (1912-1954)
8. Claude Shannon (1916-2001)
9. Katherine Johnson (1918-2020)
10. Doug Engelbart (1925-2013)
11. Paul Baran (1926-2011)
12. Robert Noyce (1927-1990)
13. Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)
14. Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
15. Fred Brooks (1931-)
16. Margaret Hamilton (1936-)
17. Donald Knuth (1938-)
18. Barbara Liskov (1939-)
19. Jerry Lawson (1940-2011)
20. Dennis Ritchie (1941-)
21. Vint Cerf (1943-)
22. Clarence "Skip" Ellis (1943-2014)
23. Ron Rivest (1943-)
24. Whitfield Diffie (1944-)
25. Steve Wozniak (1950-)
26. Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
27. Tim Berners-Lee (1955-)
28. Bill Gates (1955-)
29. Jeannette Wing (1956-)
30. Mark Dean (1957-)
31. Steve Wolfram (1959-)
32. Jeff Bezos (1964-)
33. Linus Torvalds (1969-)
34. Marc Andreessen (1971-)
35. Larry Page (1973-)
36. DJ Patil (1974-)
37. Marissa Mayer (1975-)
38. Luis von Ahn (1979-)
39. Mark Zuckerberg (1984-)
40. Whitney Wolfe Herd (1989-)