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Gladys West

Birth: October 27, 1930, in Sunderland, Virginia
Death: June 27, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Nevada
Major Academic Events: She first earned Validictorian in her high school class, which led her to a full scholarship at Virginia state collage, where she got her degree in Mathematics. She also then returned not soon after for her master's degree in that same feild.
Contributions to Computer Science: Her most popular work included GEOSAT, a satellite program that was tasked to create replicas of the earth's surface, called a Geoid. In which led to the creation the earliest form of the GPS system.

Sources:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang
https://ncwit.org/profile/gladys-west/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gladys-West

Mark Dean

Birth: born on March 2nd, 1957, in Jefferson County Tennessee
Major Academic Events: He Graduated Jefferson high school in Tennessee with straight A's in every class. He then went on to graduate from the University of Tennessee as the top of his class with a undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering. He later on went back to earn his masters in that same feild.
Contributions to Computer Science: His most famous work is inventing the first colorized PC. Then in 1999, he and his team of lead engineers at IBM came up with the Gigahertz chip, which can do up to a billion calculations a second.

Sources:

https://floridainvents.org/mark-dean/
https://blog.teachcomputing.org/mark-dean/
https://www.biography.com/inventors/mark-dean

Mark Dean

Katherine Johnson

Birth: August 26, 1914
Death: February 24, 2020
Major Academic Events: She went to college at 15 years old and graduated at 18, then enrolled at graduate school at West Virginia University where she studyed in mathmatics.
Contributions to Computer Science: Some of her biggest accomplishments were helping calculate the trajectory of Americas first human spaceflight in 1961. Then in 1969, she calculated the path of Neil Armstrongs mission to the moon on Apollo 11.

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/katherine-johnson-dead.html
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/katherine-johnson
https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography