HOLIDAYS H.W.
FOR
CLASS XI
COMPUTER SCIENCE
(083)
Presentation
based on research
Prepare a powerpoint presentation
based on a detailed study of at least two technology inventions in the field of
information technology, which may include Inventor's name with country, out of
box contributions year of invention, characteristics, social impact and uses. A
partial list of inventors is given below.
(The project can be done individually or in a group
of 2 students)
Inventors and their salient
contributions in the field of Information Technology
Name Contribution
/ Field of Contribution
Alan Turing Turing Machine
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Operating Systems, MINIX
Bjarne Stroustrup C++
Claude Shannon Information Theory
Dennis Ritchie C (Programming Language),
UNIX
Edgar F. Codd Formulated The Database
Relational Model
George Boole Boolen Logic
James Gusling JVL
James Hendler Semantic Web
John Hopcroft Compilers
John Von Neumann Early Computers, Von Neumann
Machine
Leonard Kleinrock ARPANET, Queueing Theory,
Packet Switching, Hierarchical
Routing Linus Torvalds Linux Kernel, Git
Peter Wegner Object-Oriented
Programming, Interaction (Computer Science)
Raj Chandel Hacking
Raj Reddy Artifical Intelligence, Robotics
Richard Stallman Gnu Project
Robert E. Khan TCP/IP
Sabir Bhatia Hotmail
Seymour Cray Cray Research,
Supercomputer
Tim Berners-Lee World Wide Web
Vinod Dham Pentium Processor, AMD
K6 Processor
Vinton Cerf Internet,
TCP/IP
