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Blaise Pascal
First adding machine invented -
Charles Babbage
invented differential and analytical engines -
ada lovelace
considered first computer programmer -
census counting machine
developed -
Herman Hollerith
patented art of compileing statistics -
tablet computers
first patent for earliest versions of such devices -
differential analyzer
first continuous intergraph -
misc. event 1
konrad zuse, first freely programmable computer -
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Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper, Mark I computer -
Alan Turing
produced automatic computing machine -
ENIAC
patented -
fortran
short for formula translation -
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John Backus & IBM, the first high level and successful computer programming language -
bill gates
original name is william -
Grace Hopper
role in easy to use programming language -
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Steve Russell & MIT, invention of the first computer game -
BASIC
first designed -
PC
times when tech types could build and program their own -
steve jobs
job as a technition at atari inc. -
java
released in 1995 -
difference engine
perfected in london -
MARK II
invented -
c programming languate
inventor dies at age of 70 -
PDA
can be both wireless and wired