Computer Science Heroes

About Him

Karlheinz Brandenburg was born on June 20th 1954 in Erlangen, Bavaria, West Germany.
He is still alive today and lives in Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany at age 71.

Achievements

Karlheinz Brandenburg is largely credited with the development and production of the MP3 format.
This revolutionary format allowed music files to be drastically smaller in size. He made this by cutting down the sounds that the human ear cannot perceive.

Interesting Facts

While testing his reduced size MP3 player, Brandenburg used the popular song “Tom’s Diner” to see the results. Brandenburg was also an avid PC builder and would build his own models for fun.

Sources

Kiddle Article
Internet Hall of Fame
Mental Floss Article

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About Her

Kathleen Booth was born in Stourbridge, United Kingdom on July 9th 1922.
She passed away peacefully on September 29th 2022.

Achievements

Throughout her life, Booth was always interested in math and computational powers. Soon Booth had created the worlds first ever operation identifying assembly language. This allowed programs to run with instructions that the computer could read as 1's and 0's.

Interesting Facts

Booth lived a very long and healthy life—all the way to 100 years old. Booth was a very avid music fan and due to that, permanently lost her hearing at just around age 30.

Sources

The New Stack Article
St. Andrews Biography
Medium Article

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