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John Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor, best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College. -
Reynold Johnson
Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive. -
Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. -
Ralph Baer
Ralph Henry Baer was a German-born American video game developer, inventor, and engineer, and was known as "The Father of Video Games" due to his many contributions to games and the video game industry in the latter half of the 20th century. -
Jean Bartik
Jean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC. -
Jean Sammet
Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962 -
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist . A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science -
Philip Estridge
Philip Donald Estridge, known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". -
Nolan Bushnell
American engineer and enterpreneur who found both Atari, Inc. and found Chuck E. cheese's pizza-time Theaters chain. -
Vinton Cerf
American internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the father of the internet." -
Steve Wozniak
American electrical engineer who co-founded Apple Computer with steve jobs and Reynold Wayne. -
Steve Jobs
American enterpreneur, marketer, and inventor and CEO of Apple Inc. -
James Gosling
Canadian computer sicentist, best known as the father of the java programming language. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web, and also known as TimBL -
Linus Torvalds
Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems.
