1. A Career Journey Famous Careers in Information Technology Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

2. A Career Journey: Grace Hopper Murray Computer Scientist Developed a premiere language for business data processing One of the first coders (programmers) for a computer used during World War II First woman admiral in United States Navy Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved Grace Hopper Murray

3. Computer Scientist Invented the World Wide Web Founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved Tim Berners-Lee A Career Journey: Tim Berners-Lee

4. A Career Journey: Jaron Lanier Computer Scientist Created the first art video game Created virtual reality technology Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved Jaron Lanier

5. A Career Journey: Bill Gates Bill Gates Computer Programming At 15, developed and sold a computerized traffic- control system At Harvard he created computer programming language with a friend, Paul Allen Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

6. A Career Journey: Bill Gates Bill Gates Computer Programming Created a company to sell his software program in the late 1970’s In the 1980’s a computer company contracted to use his operating system 1995 wrote The Road Ahead Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

7. A Career Journey: Bill Gates Bill Gates Computer Programming Created an internet browser Created a charity organization with his wife, Melinda, to help provide computer access to many, fight AIDS and give vaccines to the needy Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

8. A Career Journey: Nolan Bushnell Video Game Designer, Inventor, Entrepreneur In third grade he became fascinated with science Started a company while still in college Nolan Bushnell Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

9. A Career Journey: Nolan Bushnell Video Game Designer, Inventor, Entrepreneur Developed sound equipment Created a computer game Created a very popular video game Nolan Bushnell Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

10. A Career Journey: Nolan Bushnell Video Game Designer, Inventor, Entrepreneur Started a well-known video game company Helped that company create a personal computer Entered Internet gaming with his own website Nolan Bushnell Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

11. A Career Journey: Chester Gordon Bell Computer Scientist Worked in his father’s electrical business at a young age Worked at a major electric company during college Worked on early version of speech recognition software Chester Gordon Bell Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

12. A Career Journey: Chester Gordon Bell Computer Scientist Worked with a major computer company on first commercial equipment Created the microcomputer Created his own computer company Chester Gordon Bell Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

13. A Career Journey: Chester Gordon Bell Computer Scientist Became assistant director of science foundation Cofounded a computer museum in Boston Founded computer history center Chester Gordon Bell Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved

14. What Causes Occupational Changes? Possible Factors: Changes in occupational interest Changes in demand Changes in skills Other? Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved