Meet Grace Hopper: Amazing Grace
She taught computers English, taped the first bug into a logbook, and retired from the Navy at seventy-nine.
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Meet Claude Shannon: The Bit Player
He invented the information age in one paper — then spent his celebrity building juggling robots.
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Meet Alan Turing: The Imitation Game
He defined the computer before one existed, shortened a world war — and asked the question AI still lives inside.
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