June 23, 1943-Now
Recieved a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford University in 1965. He also worked at IBM as a systems engineer and then attended UCLA to recieve his master's degree and doctorate in computer science. He then worked at Stanford as a computer scientist and electrical engineer.
Vint Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet. He recieved the U.S. National Medal of Technology from Former President Clinton and the A.M. Turing Award for his work in inventing the Internet.
https://internethalloffame.org/vint-cerf#:~:text=Widely%20known%20as%20one%20of,founding%20and%20developing%20the%20Internet.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vinton-Cerf
https://www.gallup.com/seniorscientists/177206/vinton-cerf.aspx
June 8, 1955-Now
He is a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford University. He is the Director of both W3C and WST. He worked at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
Timothy Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland. He also created URL's, HTTP, and HTML along with the World Wide Web, as they are all important assets in the operation of it.
https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/tim-berners-lee
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tim-Berners-Lee
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
December 9, 1906-January 1, 1992
Grace Hopper Recieved her masters degree and her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University in 1930 and 1934 respectively. She joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943 and went to work on the MARK I, the first electromechanical computer in the US, at Harvard. She helped calculate rocket trajectories and many other things that were essential to the war effort.
She was one of the first coders, now called programmers, and wrote the manual for the Harvard MARK I. She helped create many more computers and programming languages such as COBOL and FLOW-MATIC. She was also the one to coin the term "debugging" a computer. She came up with this term when the Harvard Mark II was expieriencing issues and she took apart the computer to find that there was an actual moth inside the hardware of the computer!
https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper
https://www.biography.com/scientist/grace-hopper
https://www.famousscientists.org/grace-murray-hopper/