American studies notes for College and university students that examines American literature, history, society, and culture.
Jonathan Postel. Considered the father of the internet, he was the author of the first RFCs, he created the first protocols that today make it possible to navigate through a sea of information, and he fought to maintain internet freedom. Together with Vint Cerf , Steve Crocker and other experts, he played a leading role in the development of the … Read more
John McCarthy. Prominent American computer scientist, who made important contributions in the field of Artificial Intelligence , being the first to introduce this term in computer science . Invented the LISP programming language . Summary [ hide ] 1 Biographical synthesis 1 Studies 2 Work history 3 Death 2 Contributions 3 See also 4 Sources Biographical synthesis He was born on 4 as September as 1947 , in Boston , Massachusetts United States . The son of an Irish Catholic father and a Lithuanian Jewish mother. Because of the health of John … Read more
Jan Rajchman . American engineer who worked at the RCA company and invented ferrite thyroid memories for early computers. Considered the “Father of ROM” (Read-only memory). Made important contributions to the development of electronic hardware Summary [ hide ] 1 Trajectory 2 Scientific Contributions 3 Acknowledgments 4 Sources Trajectory Rajchman was born in London , where his father, a Polish national, was working in medical research. When he … Read more
James Rumbaugh. Computer scientist and an object methodologist. Well known for his work on the creation of the Object Modeling Technique (OMT) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Bibliography Computer scientist born on August 22 , 1947 . He joined Rational Software in 1994 , and worked there with Ivar Jacobson and Grady Booch (“the Three Friends”) to develop UML . They later merged their software development methodologies, OMT , OOSE, and Booch into the Rational Unified Process (RUP). In 2003 he moved to IBM , after its acquisition of … Read more
Jack Dorsey. American computer scientist, programmer and businessman. He got involved in web development as a college student, founder of the social network Twitter in 2006 . Since then, he has served as CEO and Chairman of the Board, in addition to being CEO. It also launched the successful online payment platform Square in 2010 . Summary [ hide ] 1 Biographical synthesis 2 Insertion in Twitter 1 Creation of Twitter 2 Twitter … Read more
Willis Haviland Carrier. American engineer, known as the man who invented the air conditioner. Summary [ hide ] 1 Biographical synthesis 1 Trajectory 2 Death 2 Sources Biographical synthesis He was born on November 26, 1876 in New York , United States He grew up on a farm near the shore of Lake Erie , as the only child in an extended family of adults, including his grandfather … Read more
