Welcome to my Website! Today we are learning about three Computer Science Superheroes.
Karlheinz Brandenburg: Birth: 6/20/1954, Death N/A
Brandenburg’s PhD was from the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in Electrical Engineering for work on digital audio coding and perceptual measurement techniques in 1989. He has received many awards such as the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Internet Award (2001), and the IEEE Engineering Excellence Award. Brandenburg revolutionized the music industry by developing the MPEG Audio Layer 3 in particular, also known as mp3. Brandenburg got his inspiration for the mp3 from his doctoral supervisor that had the idea of feeding music down a phone line.
Kathleen Booth: Birth: 7/9/1922, Death: 9/29/2022
Kathleen earned her bachelor’s degree in Maths from the University of London and the received her PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1950. An annual lecture at Birkbeck College was named after Kathleen Booth and her husband, Andrew Booth. Booth created the first assembly programme which bootstrapped the development of software up from binary machine code to simple logical instruction and was also the designer of the assembler for the first ARC computers at the Birkbeck College in London. An crucial part of modern processors, the Booth multiplier, started out being an idea drawn on the back of a paper at a tea shop in Southampton Row in London between 1949 and 1950 on an afternoon by Andrew Booth, Kathleen’s husband. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3
Timothy Berners-Lee: June 8th, 1955 - Now
He was awarded knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II. He also received the Inaugural Millennium Technology Prize. He invented the World Wide Web, founded the World Wide Web Consortium, and became the first holder of the 3COM Founder’s Chair. He graduated from the University of Oxford. Additionally, he was named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, according to the Web Foundation. Source 1 Source 2 Source 3 Homepage
