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Computer Pioneers
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Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944,[2] invented the first compiler for a computer programming language,[3][4][5][6][7] and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages -
Alan Turning
Alan Turning He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. -
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Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov computer scientist[2] 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
He is best known for his pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. -
Nolan Bushnell
founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. -
Vinton Cerf
who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet" -
Al Alcorn
He worked for the pioneering video company Ampex, where he met Ted Dabney and several other people that would end up being constants through the Atari, Inc., Apple -
Steve Jobs
He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc -
Bill Gates
Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. -
Linus Torvalds
who is the creator of the Linux kernel and for a long time, principal developer; that became the kernel for operating systems (and many distributions of each), such as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS -
Jack Dorsey
co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. -
Alexis Ohanian
best known for co-founding the social news website Reddit, helping launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and starting the social enterprise Breadpig -
Mark Zuckerberg
He is the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook
