Malware (a portmanteau of the terms malicious and software) consists of computer viruses, spyware, computer worms, and other software capable of stealing devices’ data or running harmful code. Cybercriminals use malware to extort money, steal personal information, and spy on their victims.
Python, general-purpose high-level computer programming language valued for its English-like syntax and powerful built-in data analysis and data science functions and libraries.
He would go on to create the computer programming language LISP (which is still used in AI), host computer chess games against human Russian opponents, and develop the first computer with “hand-eye” capability, all important building blocks for AI.
Dorothy Vaughan, American mathematician and computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and who was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became part of NASA.
St. Carlo Acutis was an English-born Italian computer programmer who was beatified (the second of three stages in the process of canonization) by the Roman Catholic Church in 2020.
Microsoft Windows is a computer operating system (OS) developed by Microsoft Corporation to run personal computers (PCs). Featuring the first graphical user interface for IBM-compatible PCs, Microsoft Windows soon dominated the PC market.
In 1945, the war over, Turing was recruited to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London to create an electronic computer. His design for the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was the first complete specification of an electronic stored-program all-purpose digital computer.
One of the most recognizable brands in the world, Apple created the first commercially successful personal computer and was also the first to bring the graphical user interface (GUI) into mass adoption.
Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet.
