October is Cybersecurity Month
Of course, every month is cybersecurity month here at JM Addington Technology Solutions but for most businesses your core focus is on something else: your core competency. But you still […]
GM As Critical Infrastructure
Kevin Tierney, GM’s chief cybersecurity officer, is increasingly focusing on power-grid security due to the shift away from gas-powered cars. This, in turn, makes GM a critical infrastructure provider as […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Granville T Woods
Granville T Woods was an electrical engineer and a prominent inventor in the 19th century. He had many significant electrical inventions back then, such that he was called ‘Black Edison’. […]
African American Innovators in Tech | John Henry Thompson
have a high school student, John Henry Thompson had an interest in programming. Over time he learned programming languages like PLI, JCL, COBOL, and FORTRAN. He is known for inventing […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Marc Regis Hannah
We all have Marc Regis Hannah to thank for the 3-D special effects we see in movies today. He obtained a B.Sc in electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Janet E Bashen
Meet the first Black woman to receive a software patent in the United States, Janet E Bashen. Bashen studied legal studies and government at the University of Houston. When she […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Mark E Dean
Mark E Dean is one of the most famous African-American inventors that shaped modern computing. His most prominent and most recent innovation is the production of the first 1-Gigahertz chip. […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Valerie Thomas
The whole world will forever be indebted to African-American inventor Valerie Thomas for making 3-Dimensional imaging possible through her illusion transmitter. Thomas invention extended the idea of the television, and […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Otis Frank Boykin
Otis Frank Boykin invented the wire precision resistor. He had his college education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, while working as a laboratory assistant at an aerospace laboratory in […]
African American Innovators in Tech | Evelyn Boyd Granville
In the 1940s, it was rare to see a Black woman on an Ivy League campus. However, Evelyn Boyd Granville defied all odds as a student at Yale University. Granville […]
