Computer Pioneers

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    Computer Pioneers

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    http://www.charlesbabbage.net/
    Is known for the concept of a programmable computer

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    http://www.biography.com/people/ada-lovelace-20825323
    The world’s first computer programmer.

  • Edith Clarke

    First woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, as well as the country's first female professor of electrical engineering.

  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    Internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the first modern digital computer

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    http://gracehopper.org/2013/
    One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. Credited with popularizing the term “debugging” for fixing computer glitches.

  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet
    Is an American computer scientist who developed FORMAC programming language 1962.

  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Osborne
    Introduced the first portable computer

  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Creator of Systers. The first e-mail network for women in technology. Founded the Institute for Women and Technology.

  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.

  • Linus Torvalds

    Best known for Linux Kernel and Git