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Computer Pioneers

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  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Read more about Ada Lovelace Mathematician who worked on first general-purpose computer

  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    More about Edith Clarke Invented Clarke calculator and wrote influential textbook in power engineering

  • John Atonasoff

    John Atonasoff
    More about John Atonasoff Physics and mathematics teacher

  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Built one of the first program-controlled computing machines

  • Ralph Baer

    Invented the first light gun to be used on a T.V. for target gaming

  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet
    Developed FORMAC programming language and joined IBM

  • Adam Osborne

    Made first portable computer, and started company named after himself

  • Alan Kay

    Joined team for Apple and developed laser printing

  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    Development of Internet TCP/IP architecture

  • Anita Borg

    Founded the Institute for Women and Technology and started the Systers listserve for female programmers

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    More about Bill Gates Owns Microsoft, the largest PC software company

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    More about Alan Cooper Created the Goal-Directed design methodology

  • Marissa Mayer

    Marissa Mayer
    More about Marissa Mayer President of Yahoo and longtime executive of Google

  • Jack Dorsey

    Co-founder of Twitter in Square Inc.

  • Aaron Levie

    Aaron Levie
    Created the Box Cloud computing company