On February 7, 1990 died Alan Jay Perlis. He was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis
On February 10, 1883 was born Edith Clarke. She was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Clarke
On February 12, 1948 was born Raymond Kurzweil. He is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil