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Louis-Jacque Daguerre
January 7, 1839, Daguerre introduced the daguerreotype, the first detailed photographic image, to members of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts. He was responsible for the first photography and developing process. He was responsible for the original still photography method of visual media that continues to be used today.
Daniel, Malcolm. “Daguerre (1787–1851) and the Invention of Photography.” [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dagu/hd_dagu.htm] -
Thomas Edison
Inventions: “...telegraph, phonograph, electric light bulb, alkaline storage batteries and Kinetograph (a camera for motion pictures).”
“On April 23, 1896, Edison became the first person to project a motion picture, holding the world's first motion picture screening at Koster & Bial's Music Hall in New York City.”
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Alan Turing
Development and implementation of Alan Turing ideas -
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Franklin D Roosevelt, the Depression and World War II
[http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381#final-years] - "Greatly expanded the powers of the Federal Government through the New Deal" -
Alan Turing
"Turing assessed what it meant for a human to follow a definite method or procedure to perform a task.... Invented the idea of a Universal Machine that could decode and perform any set of instructions.... Ten years later he would turn this revolutionary idea into a practical plan for an electronic computer capable of running a program" http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/z8bgr82 -
Franklin D Roosevelt
"FDR pushed to have US factories become 'arsenal of democracy' for Allies...." Training and incorporating millions of unskilled workers was essential in creating the 'arsenal of democracy'. Training films were developed for armed forces training as well as industrial assembly [http://www.biography.com/people/franklin-d-roosevelt-9463381#final-years] -
B J Skinner
“Influenced by Thorndike’s “Law of Effect” (1905), ...coined the term operant conditioning in 1938; it means roughly changing of behavior by the use of reinforcement which is given after the desired response.” Skinner (1948) “Studied operant conditioning by conducting experiments using animals which he placed in a 'Skinner Box' which was similar to Thorndike’s puzzle box.”
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Jacques Piaget
“His researches in developmental psychology and genetic epistemology had one unique goal: how does knowledge grow? His answer is that the growth of knowledge is a progressive construction of logically embedded structures superseding one another by a process of inclusion of lower less powerful logical means into higher and more powerful ones up to adulthood. Therefore, children's logic and modes of thinking are initially entirely different from those of adults.”
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Vinton Cerf/Robert Kahn
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. This was the foundational development for the establishment of the Internet.
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Bill Gates
Operating System to PC to enable access to powerful applications.
Co-founded Microsoft (world’s largest PC company)
Personal computer revolution (chosen due to his role in the physical media we use in IT)
Developed word processing programs
Continues to have a role in education/tech
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Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, was an information technology entrepreneur and inventor. His Apple iPhones, iPads, iPods and digital publishing in particular have evolved how people communicate, research, and access information available on the Internet. Answers to any questions are now available at the tips of fingers, and his company was the first to introduce such accessible devices and apps. [http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805] -
Jimmy Donal Wales
In 2000, Jimmy Wales started Nupedia, a free on-line encyclopedia that in 2004 became Wikipedia. According to Bloomberg.com, Wikipedia ranks as the fifth most-visited website in the world. It is responsible for almost single-handedly replacing text encyclopedias in homes across the nation, and changing how students research. [http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=22337779&privcapId=21865011] [http://jimmywales.com/about-jimmy/]