Influential Computer Programmers

Where do I start?

Inspire - Indiana's Virtual Library

Britannica School offers traditional encyclopedia articles that can verify dates, spelling, and other details. Britannica School also links to magazine articles, web sites, and media for your research.

Credo has Topic Pages, Mind Maps, and plenty of reference titles to help you get started off with solid information.

Oxford reference doesn't' offer any specific tools to help with your research. However, it is an authoritative reference database that includes many reference works that are standards in their field. It's a great resource. If you're having trouble finding information using the above databases, give Oxford Reference a try.

Databases

Inspire - Indiana's Virtual Library

Digital Access Card

For this project you will want to perform a Subject search to retrieve the best results from our databases.
1. After logging in to the Knowledge Discovery Assistant, select the Advanced Search option located under the search box.
2. Select the SU Subject Terms field using the drop down menu located to the right of the search box.
3. Enter the name of the programmer you're' researching into the Search Box and click on Search.
4. Depending on the number of "hits" you retrieve from the database, you may need to limit or expand your search using the tools on the left-hand sidebar.
5. Please don't hesitate to ask Mr. Kilburn for help if you need assistance.

Full-Length Biographies

For full-length biographies (aka books) are available from many sources, but the 3 listed here are your best bets for this project. EBSCO eBooks is Highland's eBook collection. eBooks and Texts is part of the Internet Archive and is an Open Education Resource. LCPL is the Lake County Public Library. The link will take you to LCPL's eBooks page, and you can check out materials using your Digital Access Card.

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List of Programmers

Grace Hopper
Ada Lovelace
Bill Gates
Alan Turing
Peter Djikstra
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson
Steve Jobs
George Boole
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (algorithm)
Alexis Ohanian
Charles Babbage
Vint Cerf
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Ian Spalter
Marvin Minsky
Margaret Hamilton
Mark Zuckerberg
Hari Parvati
Markus Alexej Persson
Eric Barone
Guido van Rossum
Bob Kahn
Shigeru Miyamoto

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