Computer Pioneers

Early Pioneers

Period: Feb 4, 1750 to Feb 4, 1850

Charles Babbage

Dec 26, 1791

Often referred to as the "Father of Computers". Invented first ever manical computer

Ada Lovelace

Dec 10, 1815

Read more about Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace was a mathmatician who worked with Charles Babbage on creating the first analytical machine.

Reynold Johnson

Jul 16, 1906

More During his almost four decades at I.B.M., Johnson was awarded over ninety patents.

Grace Hopper

Dec 9, 1906

More on Grace Hopperin 1944 she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I

Jean Bartik

Dec 27, 1924

Applied to become a part of the project and was eventually selected to be one of its first programmers

Leonard Kleinrock

Jun 13, 1934

DEveloped the mathematicl theory of packet networks

Vinton Cerf

Jun 23, 1943

Began envisioning the internet in 1972

Alan Cooper

Jun 3, 1952

His business consisted of inventing software and selling it to publishers

Steve Jobs

Feb 24, 1955

More on Steve JobbsHe created apple in 1976

Bill Gates

Oct 28, 1955

Founded Microsft

Linus Torvalds

Dec 28, 1969

More on Linus TorvaldsIn 2000, he was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century poll

Marissa Mayer

Feb 4, 1975

President and CEO of Yahoo!

Nolan Bushnell

Feb 5, 1979

Lost a lot of money off of a 3 foot maid robot he attempted to make

Konrad Zuse

Dec 18, 1995

Created and designed "Plankalkuel", world's first higher-level programming language

Gary Thuerk

Feb 4, 2016

Created spam to unqualified list of recipients