10 computer pioneers

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  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    She invented key software technologies that paved the way for modern day computer languages

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
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    Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Creator of the Queueing System: studying several performance parameters of computer systems

  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov
    read moreShe led the Venus operating system project, a small, low-cost and interactive timesharing system

  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    read moreHe was best known for creating the first portable computer.

  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
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    Cerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet

  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak
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    n 1976 Woz devolved the computer that eventually made him famous

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    Known as the “Father of Visual Basic
    American software designer and programmer

  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Major contributions to advances in the technology for construction of distributed computing system trough invention of the java language system

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    He co-founded the software: Microsoft