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CLARENCE ELLIS

CLARENCE ELLIS. COMPUTER SCIENTIST By J.C. Yordy.

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CLARENCE ELLIS

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  1. CLARENCE ELLIS COMPUTER SCIENTIST By J.C. Yordy

  2. Clarence Ellis was born in Chicago in 1943. At the age of only 15 Ellis got a job at a company nearby to help pay bills. He worked the graveyard shift, which means he worked all night. He mainly prevented break-ins and watched their new computer, but did not mess with it. During his free time at work he read the computer manual and became an expert on it. One day at work the computer ran out of punch cards that weren’t used and Ellis easily fixed the computer with some changes in the settings so it would take used punch cards. This experience changed his life and he decided to go into the computer science field of work. HOW IT ALL STARTED

  3. Computer punch card used in 1950s Punch card reader used in the 1950s

  4. Ellis had to earn a scholarship because he didn’t have enough money to pay for college. He did manage to get a scholarship to Beloit College in Wisconsin, but he wasn’t nearly as prepared as the other students. He had to stay on campus to study through summer and winter breaks. He wanted to quit, but this was the best chance that he would get, so he stayed. At the beginning of his junior year he and his chemistry professor were asked to put a computer together that was donated to the college. It was the first computer at the college. He finally felt like he belonged there. He was also the only black person at his college. He was a big fan of Dr. King and went to hear the “I Have A Dream speech.” COLLEGE

  5. Ellis also was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in computer science in the year 1969! It was awarded at the University of Illinois. This is Illiac IV, one of the world’s first supercomputers. Ellis worked on it while at the University of Illinois. ACHIEVMENTS

  6. He has worked at a lot of places and has done amazing stuff. These are places where he worked: • AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories • IBM • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center • Microelectronics and Computer Tech Company • Los Alamos Scientific Labs • Argonne National labs CAREER

  7. While working at Xerox he helped create the idea of clicking on a graphic (icons) to start a computer program or to issue a command, rather than typing in lines of computer codes. This became one key feature on the Apple computer and was later incorporated into Microsoft Windows operating system. WHY WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HIM

  8. He has taught at many places including Stanford University, University of Texas, MIT, and Steven Institute of Technology. He has also taught in Taiwan and Paris. Currently he is a Professor Emeritus of computer science at the University of Colorado, where he is also Director of the Collaboration Technology Research Group. He has authored several books and over 100 scientific reports and articles. TEACHING/WHAT HE IS DOING NOW

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