Life Advice

Life Advice

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

The Titans

The pioneers of any field of science have cleared the jungle of uncertainty for the rest of us to follow. They are unwavering in ambition and commitment. These people are also responsible of altering the path of computer science forever. Three of the biggest names are Tim Berners-Lee, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerburg.


Time Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for creating the World Wide Web , also known as the internet. He accomplished this in 1989 when he transmitted a message in HTTP. One year later he designed the specifications of URLs, HTTP, and HTML, cementing their stay as the web template. In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium. This propelled the internet to its full potential through guidelines, software, and tools. At MIT he became one of the founding professors at the School of Engineering jointed with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Lee is currently a professor at the University of Southampton in UK. Queen Elizabeth recognized Lee’s accomplishments and knighted him in 2004. If you wish to develop a deeper understanding of Tim Berners-Lee’s internet visit Stanford.edu

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin, along with Larry Page, invented Google. The world’s first web search engine that successfully implemented a data mining algorithm that ran on popularity. The search engine was so pioneering that it is still used 15 years later! Amazing. The duo coded in a garage with one other employee for a year to bring their vision to fruition. Fast forward to additions such as Google News, Google AdSense, Gmail, and Google Map, Google has become one of the Internet’s greatest force to be reckoned with. According to Rachel Potvin Google’s code manuscripts run 2 billion lines long; the longest single piece of code ever created and maintained. 


Mark Zuckerburg

Mark Zuckerburg is the man who illustrated Facebook. Currently, Facebook is the largest social network in the world. It all began junior year of college in Mark’s dorm room. After releasing FaceSmash, three individuals approached Zuckerburg with the building blocks for Facebook. Facebook was up and running in less than a month short after. The rest is history. Mark wished to create an open information flowing medium for the public to have full control over. He desired to combine pictures, status updates, links, videos, instant messaging, and video games all into one package. Mr. Zuckerburg has connected the world like no one has ever before.

Minorities In The Field

Raji Arasu is the former VP of Engineering at eBay and the Chief Technology Officer at StubHub. We have him to thank for many of the upgrades and services they provide. 

Anu Garg is the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community that is comprised of word lovers in 200 countries. It has services that email the subscribed a new word everyday. The website has also published many books. 

Interview

I interviewed local expert Alex Rademacher. He was my CSCI 160 professor and my favorite in the major thus far. As a kick off question I asked,

“Where do you see the field of Computer Science moving towards in the future?”

Rademacher replied, “I see more development of AI’s and better data mining algorithms. The world is speeding up exponentially. Nobody wishes to wait. So, the best way to ensure more computer scientists is to start educating in middle and high school.”

Moving on I asked, “What kind of professional writing encompasses a job in the field”

“When finishing a project it is crucial to design an API for the methods. Without it, future developers will become bewildered in the sea of code. On top of API’s, framework data and system requirements are a necessity. Depending on the job specification, you might not have to write any of these documents," Alex exclaimed!