Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Creston Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Learn about Ada Byron Lovelace, from her early creative fascination with mathematics and science and her devastating bout with measles, to the ground-breaking algorithm she wrote for Charles Babbage's analytical engine.
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2016., Adolescent, Abrams ComicArts Call No: GN TUR Ott Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician who cracked the German Enigma code, enabled a group of British code breakers to shorten World War II by years. That alone would be enough to secure Turing's place in history, but his genius did not stop there. He launched modern computer science through his creation of the universal Turing machine and the Imitation Game, an artificial-intelligence test that is still in use today.
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c2008., Hyperion Call No: 155.9 PAU Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
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c2008., Adult, Distributed by Disney Educational Productions Call No: DVD 170.44 PAU Edition: Full screen version Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University was asked to deliver a "Last Lecture" (a series designed to examine the final lessons the speaker would impart when facing their own mortality). For Randy the topic was anything but hypothetical - he had recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis. He delivered his lecture entitled: "Really achieving your childhood dreams" at Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 18, 2007. Randy lost his cancer battle on July 25, 2008 but his legacy lives on through this "Last Lecture".
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[2017], Primary, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: B Ham Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon!
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[2017], Primary, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon!
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[2017]., Juvenile, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduces the woman mathematician whose childhood love of numbers led to her prestigious education and contributions at NASA while explaining how her handwritten codes proved essential throughout numerous space missions.
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c2010., Juvenile, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B BERNERS-LEE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: USA today lifeline biographies.Summary Note: Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Includes photographs and side-bars.
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c2010, Adolescent, Twenty-first Century Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: USA today lifeline biographiesSummary Note: Chronicles the career of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the Internet, describing how he came up with the idea, why he thought it was so important, and how he made his dream a reality.
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c2003., Facts on File Call No: Ref 920.03 Com Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Notable scientistsSummary Note: Presents alphabetized biographical profiles of over one hundred computer scientists, from Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, describing their family and educational backgrounds, work, achievements, and significance in the history of the field. Also includes a chronology and a glossary.
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-- You Tube2015, Adolescent, Mason Crest Call No: 384.55 8 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Wizards of technologySummary Note: Explains how Steve Chen founded the video hosting website YouTube.