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Philip Don Estridge

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Introduction: Philip Don Estridge also known as Don Estridge, born June 23 1937 and died in August 2, 1985. Don Estridge who was an American computer engineer was led development of the original IBM Personal Computer which made him known as "father of the IBM PC".

Computer Science Achivement's: Don Estridge who has graduated from Kenny High School in 1955, also went to the university of Florida 1959. Don Estridge had got a bachelor degree in electrical engineering at the university of Florida, and was working in the army. While in the army he was designing a working radar system using computers, IBM and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center until he moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1969.

Though Don Estridge was a brilliant, minded person he did not win any personal awards. With Don Estridge goal of creating a low cost personal computer against other competitors such as apple computer, he took control of a small Entry Level Systems division in 1980. When creating a budget computer he had realized he would need to use great deals of third party hardware and software. Estridge had also published the specifics of the IBM PC, which allowed third party aftermarket hardware's to take advantage of the machine expansion card slots.

Sources: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1788/Don-Estridge/
https://fampeople.com/cat-philip-don-estridge
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_estridge.html

Ajay Bhatt

Ajay Bhatt

Introduction:Ajay Bhatt an Indian-born American computer architect who is mainly famous for one thing, the creation of the USB. This is the Co-inventor of the USB who invented the USB when he was employed with intel in 1995. Amazingly, Ajay Bhatt was inspired to make the USB from his wife who had trouble with a printer trying to print something for their daughter.

Computer Science Achivement's Ajay Bhatt was born in Set 6, 1957, and still living to this day. His education came from the place Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, in which he got his master's degree from the university. He had joined intel at the time and was a senior staff who was working on a project. The creation of the USB was done while under intel which was one of the biggest advancements in computer science. The idea of the USB was given to a lot of other company's, but only intel was patient enough to wait for the final product. To today's day, intel chose to make this product controlled-free to everyone effecting 133 companies today.

Interestingly, for one of Bhatt inventions, he had made no money from this invention he had made. The reason being that he was working under intel at the time which made the invention intel's instead of Bhatt. Fortunately, he is still happy as his invention is used all over the world as a stable connector and has helped plenty of people who had connections issues.

Sources: https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/Ajay_Bhatt
Ajay Bhatt | American University Online
https://sd2.org/ajay-bhatt-creator-of-the-usb/

Hedy Lamarr

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Introduction:Hedy Lamarr was an American actress and inventor. She was born on November 9, 1914, and died on January 19 2000 and she was behind the basis for Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. Hedy Lamarr was born a single child to a banker and pianist, while her father first sparked her interest in technology, taking her on walks and explaining the workings of various machinery. She never received a formal education, but still retained a deep passion for inventing Later, after fleeing her husband she met Howard Hughes, who encouraged her to pursue inventing.

Computer Science Achivement's:Hendy never received a formal education, but retained a deep passion for inventing. Later, after fleeing her husband she met Howard Hughes, who encouraged her to pursue inventing. In 1940 she met George Antheil who had a similar passion for inventing and progressing technology which motivated her to invent even more. She even made a pill that turned liquid into a Coca Cola like substance. They worked together to make a revolutionary communication system. By 'hopping' radio frequencies it would make the waves unable to intercepted and allowing torpedoes to reach its target faster. Her work was not recognized, and she didn't even receive a penny work her patent. Later however, her work became the basis of Wi-Fi and GPS, earning her the title of the Mother Of Wi-Fi.

Sources:https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/bombshell-hedy-lamarr-story-documentary/9906/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hedy-Lamarr