Fergana Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Computerized Design Systems, 48-21 group student

Tech Innovators: Grace Hopper

Hopper began work at the Harvard Computation Lab in the late 1940s as part of the Navy Reserve, programming the Mark 1 computer that ensured speed and accuracy to military initiatives used over the world.
After focusing on Mathematics, she moved on to help develop the UNIVAC I computer, the first business-oriented machine. She can be credited for the creation of the first compiler for a computer programming language; software that translates arithmetic into language and unifies programming instruction. Hopper was one of the architects of a new compiled computer language called COBOL, or ‘Common Business-Oriented Language’, which is still a standard of data processing today.
Most notably, she’s acclaimed for the idea that computer code could be written and read like language. In 1969 Hopper was awarded the inaugural Data Processing Management Association Man of the Year award, and in 1991 received America’s highest technology award, The National Medal of Technology, confirming her as a pioneer of 21^st century technology.

Tech Innovators: Tim Berners-Lee

Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who invented what is undoubtedly one of the most revolutionary inventions of our time, the World Wide Web. Whilst working on a project called ‘Enquire’, at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, his frustration in accessing stored information sparked the idea of sharing and updating information among researchers, by using hypertext.
The internet already existed at this time, and the scientist worked to add hypertext to the Internet to enable him to develop his original theory of sharing information within a company, on a global scale. Over the next two years the World Wide Web was developed as both a text editor and browser and the world’s first website, http://info.cern.ch/, was launched on 6 August 1991. The scientist received a knighthood and Sir Tim Berners-Lee now works at an organization aimed at developing sustainable Web standards.