Hedy Lamarr- Birth-1914, Death-2000

Academic Awards- The Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly awarded Lamarr and Antheil with their Pioneer Award. Lamarr also became the first woman to receive the Invention Convention 's Bulbie Gnass Spirit of Achievement Award. She was uneducated and she was self-taught herself.

Major contributions to computer science- Hedy Lamarr is known for inventing the basis for all modern wireless communications: signal hopping. She also recruited George Antheil, a composer she met through MGM Studios, in order to create what was known as a Secret Communication System. The idea behind the invention was to create a system that constantly changed frequencies, making it difficult for the Axis powers to decode the radio messages. This helped Hedy Lamarr make "Wi-fi".

Interesting Facts- Hedy Lamarr was also an actress that was very popular.