Birth: June 8, 1955, London, England

Death: N/A

Academic Events and Awards: He graduated with a Physics degree from Oxford Univsersity in 1976. His contributions led him to knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II. He also won the Milennium Technology Prize and the Charles Stark Draper Prize.

Contributions to Computer Science: Sir Timothy Berners Lee started working at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1980. Throughout his time working there, he used the Internet to develop and invent the World Wide Web in 1989. One year later, in 1990, he also created the first web browser, client, and server for the WWW, which set the foundation for web browsers today like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. He also created a program called Enquire, which later became the hyperlink, allowing users to traverse webpages with ease.

Sources:
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee
https://www.britannica.com/topic/World-Wide-Web
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee

Birth: December 9, 1906, New York City, New York

Death: January 1, 1992, Arlington, Virginia

Academic Events and Awards: Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar College in 1928 and later attended Yale university from 1930-1934. She then went back to Vassar to teach Mathematics, and she joined the Naval Reserve in 1943. Thanks to her great contributions, Hopper was awarded the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award in 1988, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 1991, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Contributions to Computer Science: Grace Hopper worked on the Mark I, which was the first large-scale automatic calculator that frequently worked on military projects and mathematical tables. Hopper also worked on the design of the UNIVAC I, standing for Universal Automatic Computer, which was the first commercially available and mass-produced computer. She also co-founded COBOL, which was one of the first most widely used programming languages. COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language, and it paved the way for many popular programming languages used today.

Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grace-Hopper
https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper
https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper

Birth: June 23, 1937, Jacksonville, Florida

Death: August 2, 1985

Academic Events and Awards: Philip Don Estridge graduated from Bishop Kenny High School in 1955. He later graduated from the University of Florida in 1959 and obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He worked in the Army, at IBM, and then at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Unfortunately, Estridge did not receive any personal awards for his incredible contributions.

Contributions to Computer Science: He designed a radar system using computers while working in the Army, but he is most known for being the "father of the IBM PC." He greatly helped increase the number of personal computer sales, and he created an entire industry based around manufacturing hardware for IBM PCs. The CIO magazine designated him as one of the people that "invented the enterprise" of PCs. He is one of the greatest innovators of personal computers, and without him, the computer industry might not be the same as it is today.

Sources:
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1788/Don-Estridge
http://www.computer-timeline.com/timeline/don-estridge
https://www.pcmag.com/news/project-chess-the-story-behind-the-original-ibm-pc