Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill. Gates. Born : October 28, 1955 Known For : an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Gates wrote his first software program at the age of 13. In high school he helped form a group of programmers who computerized their school’s payroll system and founded Traf-O-Data, a company that sold traffic-counting systems to local governments. Career & Education. In 1975 Gates, then a sophomore at Harvard University, joined his hometown friend Paul G. Allen to develop software for the first microcomputers. They began by adapting BASIC, a popular programming language used on large computers, for use on microcomputers. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his junior year and, with Allen, formed Microsoft. Gates’s sway over the infant microcomputer industry the IBM PC (personal computer).
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me. STEVEJOBSBorn : 24 February 1955 Died : 5 October 2011 Known For : American business magnate and investor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Apple Inc.;
Career & Education. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism. Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984
Awards1985: National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak), awarded by US President Ronald Reagan[288]1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service1989: Entrepreneur of the Decade by Inc. magazine[1991: Howard Vollum Award from Reed College[2004–2010: Listed among the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World on five separate occasions2007: Named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine2007: Inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts[293]2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance2012: Posthumously honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career.[2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend2017: Steve Jobs Theatre opens at Apple Park
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da. Vinci. Born : 15 April 1452 Died : 2 May 1519 Known For : an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology
Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. Christopher. Columbus. Born : 1451 Died : 20 May 1506 Known For : was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonist who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein. Born : 14 March 1879 Died : 18 April 1955 Known For : theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
Famous Work She founded the order, The Missionaries of Charity, to look after abandoned babies and to help the poorest of the poor, once saying that they "lived like animals but die like angels". In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize and after her death was canonised as Saint Teresa.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Charlie. Chaplin. Born : 16 April 1889 Died : 25 Dec 1977 Known For : An English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.
Famous Work In May 2007, he launched Facebook Platform. The present version of Facebook Platform was introduced in 2010. In 2012, Facebook acquired the photo and video sharing social media platform, Instagram. Two years later, the company acquired the mobile messaging app, Whats. App. In August 2013, Facebook, Samsung, Ericsson, Media. Tek, Opera Software, Nokia . Zuckerberg has met world leaders, such as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the technology infrastructure in those countries. While Facebook is banned in China, the people of the country hold Zuckerberg in high regard.
Famous Work In 1903, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie were jointly awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ in physics for their extraordinary services and joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel. In 1911, she was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ in chemistry for her various contributions, such as the discovery of radium and polonium, isolation of radium, and the study of the nature and compounds of radium. Various buildings, institutions, universities, public places, roads, and museums have been named after her. Additionally, there are several works of art, books, biographies, films, and plays that give an account of her life and work.