Edward Nallen Diversity in Technology

8 Groundbreaking Contributions by Asian Americans Through History | HISTORY

Chien-Shiung Wu, Ph. D, was a fundamental piece in the development of atomic science. She was all a part of the Manhattan Project, which was the project when they made the nuclear weapons during World War II. She went to school for physics and was told by her mentor in China to continue her education in the United States which eventually lead her to the Manhattan Project.  This under representation changed technology by her continuing to innovate and research beta decay, which occurs when the nucleus of one element changes into another element. This resulted of her getting snuffed out of a Nobel Prize in 1957. What could have been done in this situation was that she should have gotten the recognition she deserved, and she would have a more prevalent image in the history books today. 

Jawed Karim, one of the original co-founders of the household name YouTube is a pioneer of video sharing on the internet. They got this idea all at a party in San Francisco. Karim got his degree for Computer Science and Engineering in 2004 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked for PayPal, which is where he met the other co-founders. The underappreciation shaped the experience in Technology is that it gave people who put in the work to get what they wanted and were determined to get that goal no matter what they looked like or where they came from. It put no label on nobody, and the work did all the talking for them. Something that can be done to combat racial bias is that people can not judge a book by its cover. Also, people are needed to be given chances to succeed instead of just writing them off after one small failure.