I'm back after a quick hiatus! As part of February, I'll also be spotlighting an African-American who contributed significantly to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Since this is my area, I have to pay homage to those who made it possible for the world to have some of the technology we have today. Below are the first two days of spotlights...enjoy!!
February 1-
Dr. Mark Dean
Dr. Mark Dean, computer scientist and highest-ranking Black at IBM (and should've been the current Dean of Engineering at Howard University but...I digress).. Dr. Dean is responsible for the computers each of us use today..he was the first Black IBM Fellow and holds 3 of IBM's original 9 PC patents...I've been told CS is boring...yet somehow, we have nothing but computer scientists like Dr. Dean to thank for even being able to post such things on websites like Facebook
Dr. Marc Hannah
For those of you who enjoyed the special effects in movies like Batman, The Nutty Professor, Terminator, Star Wars, or all the animated movies Pixar produces, like Toy Story, Beauty and the Beast, etc...thank Dr. Marc Hannah, another Black computer scientist who created the technology, Silicon Graphics, Inc. used to create these movies that George Lucas produced and people like Steve Jobs paid to own the companies using these technologies (Pixar)
February 2
Dr. Ronald McNair
Today's Black History spotlight is dedicated to Dr. Ronald McNair. Dr. McNair was a physicist and NASA astronaut, receiving his bachelor's degree from NC A&T State University and his Ph.D. from MIT...Dr. McNair was the second African-American to travel in space. He was killed in the 1986 Challenger explosion that included the first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe..in his memory, the Ronald McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program was established by the Department of Education to provide scholarships to first-generation, low-income college students and underrepresented graduate students, to help them prepare for and succeed in undergraduate and graduate studies..RIP and thank you Dr. McNair
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