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 graduated, she started working in the insurance industry. At her ...
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. This chip is made up of a million transistors and ...
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 she earned a patent for it in 1980. As a ...
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 Nashville. After he graduated from Fisk University, he took up ...
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 went on to graduate with a Ph.D. in Mathematics in ...
Dr. Clarence Ellis was a Computer Scientist, and he was the first African-American to become a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Ellis was also the first African-American to obtain a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Without him, programs ...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing has the potential to revolutionize modern marketing. AI-based writing applications can create content that is tailored to the needs and preferences of individual customers, making it much easier for businesses to reach ...
Katherine Johnson is one of the African-Americans whose untold story was brought to light through ‘Hidden Figures’ in 2016. Her work to make space flight possible has changed history and the future forever. Despite the limited educational opportunities that Blacks ...
Dr Shirley Jackson is a famous black inventor and theoretical physicist that has contributed greatly to technology. As a child, she had a keen interest in science and mathematics. She pursued her interest and went on to study physics at ...
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell are names that are recognized as indispensable in history. However, the vital contribution of Lewis H Latimer to patent their invention is not usually lauded. He was a draftsman and an inventor, and he ...
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