Computer Science Superheroes

Ajay Bhatt

Major Acomplishments: Ajay Bhatt worked at Intel and was one of the key inventors for the Universal Serial Bus (USB) and created technologies used to create the Accelerated Graphics Port. He also contributed to the Platform Power Management and chipset architecture used by Intel.

Major Academic Events: Ajay Bhatt earned a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1981 from the City College of New York and earned the European Inventor Award in 2013. He joined Intel in 1990 and retired in 2016.

Born: 6 September 1957
Still alive today

Sources:
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/6774#:~:text=Ajay%20Bhatt%20is%20a%2 0computer,speeds%2C%20and%20improved%20power%20management.
https://www.tme.com/us/en-us/news/library-articles/page/44153/ajay-bhatt-the-inventor-of-the-usb/#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20Bhatt%20has%20obtained,more%20accessible%20and%20user%2Dfriendly
https://evernetco.com/humans-in-tech-ajay-bhatt/

Philip Don Estridge

Major Acomplishments: Philip Don Estridge lead the development of the original IBM personal computer. He also contributed to the development of the IBM Disk Operating System (DOS) and IBM TopView (a personal computer operating environment for IBM DOS).

Major Academic Events: Philip Don Estridge earned his bachelors degree in electrical engineering from University of Florida in 1959. He joined IBM in June of 1959 then in 1980, he became manager of Entry Level Systems (responsible for development of small microprocessor based systems). In January 1984, Estridge was named IBM vice president.

Born: June 23, 1937
Death: August 2, 1985

Sources:
http://www.computer-timeline.com/timeline/don-estridge/
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1788/Don-Estridge/
https://www.ithistory.org/honor-roll/mr-philip-don-estridge

Timothy Berners-Lee

Major Acomplishments: Tim Berners-Lee is most known today for inventing the World Wide Web. He also developed Enquire, a simple hypertext program, that failed later because it took to much time to keep information up to date.

Major Academic Events: Tim Berners-Lee graduated from University of Oxford in 1976 and won the MacArthur Fellowship for computer science in 1998. He was a software engineering consultant at CERN.

Born: June 8, 1955
Still alive today

Sources:
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/tim- berners#:~:text=Berners%2DLee's%20childhood%20hobby%20was,Lee%20built%20his%20first%20computer.
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners- Lee/#:~:text=Sir%20Tim%20Berners%2DLee%20invented,refined%20as%20Web%20technology%20spread.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee