Timelines tagged “biography”
14 timelines
- Alan Turing
Alan Turing's life and work, from his birth in 1912 through computability, wartime cryptanalysis, machine intelligence, and mathematical biology to posthumous recognition in 2021.
- Amos Tversky
Amos Tversky's life and work, 1937–1996, from mathematical measurement and similarity to heuristics, framing, and prospect theory with Daniel Kahneman.
- B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner's life and research, 1904–1990, from experimental chambers and reinforcement schedules to teaching machines, language, and debates about freedom.
- Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman's life and research, 1934–2024: attention, collaboration with Amos Tversky, prospect theory, well-being, and the study of error and variability in judgment.
- Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart’s life and work, from his birth in 1925 to his death in 2013: augmenting human intellect, the mouse, collaborative computing, the 1968 demonstration, and the Bootstrap Institute.
- Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom's life and research, 1933–2012, from groundwater governance and urban policing to commons, institutional diversity, and the economic sciences prize.
- Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s technology and business career from his birth in 1971 to 2026: online payments, Tesla, SpaceX, artificial intelligence, Neuralink, and the acquisition of Twitter.
- Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich Hayek's life and ideas, 1899–1992, from business-cycle theory and dispersed knowledge to sensory psychology, spontaneous order, and monetary competition.
- Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper’s life and legacy, from her birth in 1906 to posthumous recognition in 2016: mathematics, wartime computing, compilers, business programming languages, and service in the United States Navy.
- Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon's life, 1916–2001, across organizational decision-making, bounded rationality, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology.
- John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes's life, 1883–1946, from Cambridge and Indian currency to the General Theory, wartime finance, and the design of the postwar monetary system.
- John Nash
John Nash's life and mathematics, 1928–2015, from noncooperative games and bargaining to geometry, partial differential equations, and the Nobel and Abel prizes.
- Melanie Perkins
Melanie Perkins from her birth in 1987 to 2026: the yearbook business behind Canva, accessible design software, workplace tools, acquisitions, and philanthropy.
- Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’s life from 1955 to 2011: Apple’s founding, the Macintosh, NeXT and Pixar, his return to Apple, and the development of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.