This assignment is meant to introduce you to your classmates and the course staff. It also helps to ensure that you can contact the course staff if you need to in the future by letting you post a message to the bulletin board.
The course bulletin board is a place for you to ask questions that can be answered by any of the course staff or even other students. This system is a much more efficient system for getting your questions answered than emailing one specific person or even waiting for an over-burdened TA during office hours. To make sure you can use the bulletin board system, please post a biography of a famous computer scienctist to the bulletin board category titled Introductions in the forum CompSci 6 - Fall 2004.
To do this, you will need to register yourself on the bulletin board. Please use your Net ID as your login, but do not use your actual Net ID password for the bulletin board. Instead please create a new password for this site. By using your Net ID as your login, you will help us to more quickly get more information if we need it to answer your question.
Here is list of famous computer scienctists. In class you should have been assigned a person from this list. Please post a biography that summarizes their contributions to computing (and possibly your life) along with any other interesting information you might find. In addition to your own words, include links to at least three web pages containing different content relating to their contribution.
Since computers are now so pervasive in society, everyone should have a variety of experiences using or programming them (or being victims of software). Before you start this course, take a moment to reflect on how these experiences have affected you and shaped your decision to program (and to take this course).
Your autobiography should attempt to answer the following questions: