Category: Computing & Engineering Pioneers

Before apps, algorithms, and cloud platforms came to define modern life, a soft-spoken American mathematician and engineer quietly reimagined communication from the ground up. He showed that messages—spoken words, pictures, music, numbers—can be treated as sequences of symbols, measured in discrete units, and transmitted reliably even through noisy channels. That insight gave engineers a new…

There are moments in technology when a single, stubborn idea changes the terms of what is possible. For mid-century computing, that idea was that people should be able to tell machines what to do in clear, purposeful language. The person who drove that idea with relentless clarity and a sailor’s sense of duty was Grace…