Computerpioneer

Computer Pioneers By: Tatum Hanson

By tshanson

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    read moreHe invented the first calculating machine and is known as the father of the computer.

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    read moreFirst computer programmer. Worked on Charles Babbage's early computer.

  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    read moreRecievd the first patent for a garaphical calculator

  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff
    read moreHe invented the first digital computer

  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    read moreCreated the first relays for automated computing

  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson
    Inventor of the first computer hard disk drive

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Invented the first computer complier

  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Created the first higher level programming language and the first program controlled computing machine

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    Lead inventor of the turing machine and helped decipher German code

  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    Invented the first video game

  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    Helped create ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC

  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    Invented UNIX computer operating system and is known as the original thinker in computer science

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Invented the mathmatical theory of packet networks and developed the underpinning of the internet

  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov
    First woman in the U.S. to recieve a Ph.D. and lead the Venus operating system

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    Created object oriented programming