In the month of March, the month where International Women's Day is celebrated, we want to recognize the great work done by Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, who invented caller ID and call waiting.
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Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
He was born on August 5, 1946 in Washington DC, United States. She graduated with excellent grades from high school, then entered the popular Massachusetts Institute of Technology as one of 20 African-American students there. Jackson, became the first African American woman in getting a PhD at MIT and the second to receive a doctorate in physics in 1973 in the United States; She is the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Illustration by: Zaida Roa
Shirley Jackson directed physics laboratories while she was a researcher of subatomic particles, she did so in the United States and Europe in the 1970s.
Thanks to his research, he made possible the invention of the portable fax, the touch-tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables and the technology behind Caller ID and call waiting.
With this, communication among many has been improved, the caller ID feature has given people the opportunity to detect known, unknown and unwanted phone calls. And with call waiting, people receive a notification of a new call while they are on another call.
In 1995, President Bill Clinton chose her as president of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United States, where it had control of the national nuclear industry outside of the military. There, he formed the International Association of Nuclear Regulators, where he advises other nations on nuclear safety issues.
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