Amazing Inventors in Communications and Computing
Student Presentations
The seminar studied the invention of the AC generator (Nikola Tesla),
the radio and FM (Lee De Forest, Edwin H. Armstrong, David
Sarnoff), the transistor (William Shockley, Walter Brattain, John Bardeen),
and the foundation
of the PC industry. Student projects studied the inventors below (Power Point
presentations)
World War 2
Hedy Lamarr by Ramie A. Barghouti (Undeclared Freshman) (950KB, .ppt)
Alfred Lee Loomis by Blake Joseph Lucchesi (Engineering Freshman) (150 KB, .ppt)
Communications
Antonio Meucci by Terence Hoi Tai Ng (Electrical Engineering Freshman) (350KB, .ppt)
Claude Shannon by Carlos Vrijido Martinez (Undeclared Freshman) (420KB, .ppt)
The Computer
John Vincent Atanasoff by Nikhil Dialani (Political Science Senior) (380KB, .ppt)
John Mauchly by Aras Bilgen (ICS Senior) (280KB, .ppt)
George Stibitz by Anuj Arora (Electrical Engineering Sophomore) (460KB, .ppt)
Alan Turing by Ashish Kumar Dasaur (Biological Sciences Sophomore) (100KB, .ppt)
Communications Satellite
Arthur C. Clarke by Jessamyn Sarcol (Computer Engineering Junior) (1MB, .ppt)
John R. Pierce by Przemyslaw Kamela (Computer Engineering Junior) (100KB, .ppt)
Laser
Charles Townes by Justin Michael Quan (Electrical Engineering Junior) (520KB, .ppt)
Gordon Gould by James Allen Julian Jr. (Computer Engineering Senior) (740 KB, .ppt)
The Internet
Robert E. Kahn by David Tai-Wei Wang (Engineering Sophomore) (220KB, .ppt)
Vinton Cerf by Jefferey Jeng Ho Park (Physical Sciences Sophomore) (150KB, .pps)
Vannevar Bush by Adam Gordon Heal (Electrical Engineering Freshman) (530KB, .ppt)
Tim Berners-Lee by Jason Glenn Toma (ICS Freshman) (680KB, .ppt)