John McCarthy
Born in 1927 and died in 2011. He founded the field of Artificial Intelligence and coined the term artificial
intelligence in 1955. He received a bachelor's in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, and a
doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University. He taught at Princeton, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and Stanford. He founded the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL). He made the programming
language LISP, which all initial AI programs use. He helped make the earliest time-sharing system and invented
programming language concepts like garbage collection. He received the A.M. Turing Award in 1971, the Kyoto
Prize in 1988, the National Medal of Science in 1990, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 2003.
Joy Buolamwini
She was born in 1989. She founded the Algorithm Justice League (AJL). She received a bachelor's in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a master's from Oxford University and a master's from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Received a bachelor's in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Launched Code4Rights (which promotes women's rights) and Zamrize (a program in Zambia that teaches youth about technology).
Sources:
Kathleen Booth
Born in 1922 and died in 2022. Awarded the B.Sc. Special Mathematics College Prize at the University of
London in 1944. She worked for Birkbeck College to help discover the double helix structure of DNA in 1946.
She invented the first assembly language in 1947. She was awarded a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the
University of London and created the Booth Multiplier Algorithm at Birkbeck in 1950. She became an honorary
Professor of Mathematics at Lakehead University in 1972.