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  • charels Babbage

    charels Babbage
    Charles Babbage, FRS was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Read all about Ada Was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    Read all aabout her Edith Clarke was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems.
  • grace hopper

    grace hopper
    Grace Hopper Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944
  • Alan turning

    Alan turning
    Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    dam Osborne was a Thailand-born British-American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere.
  • Barbra Liskov

    Barbra Liskov
    read all about herBarbara Liskov is an American computer scientist who is an institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ford Professor of Engineering in its School of Engineering's electrical engineering and computer science department.
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    Alan KayAlan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Arts.
  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    Abhay Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol and the early versions of email protocols.
  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn
    Allan Alcorn is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist. He grew up in San Francisco, California, and attended the University of California,
  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Anita Borg was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois
  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    Alan Cooper is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic," Cooper is also known for his books on About Face 3
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    George Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer.
  • Gray Thuerk

    Gray Thuerk
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