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Computer Pioneers

By MaizieD

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    Charles Babbage BioMathmetician philosopher and also an inventor.
    Father of the computer.

  • Ada Loevelace

    Ada Loevelace
    About AdaWorked with Charles Bobbage, and came up with the mathmatical computer.
    Called her approach poetic science.

  • Edith Clark

    Edith Clark
    Edith Clark: Who Is She?First female electrical engineer.
    Civil engineer.

  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff
    About JohnInvented first electronic computer.
    Inventor of the electronic computer.

  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    About GeorgeOne of the fathers of the modern first digital computer.
    PHD in mathmatical physics.

  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson
    Known for developing hard disk drive.
    Got a Medal of Technology from Ronald Reagan.

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer.
    Credited with the term debugging.

  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Built the Z1 computer.
    Built the computer in his parents living room.

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    About AlanHighly infleuntial in computer sceince.
    Made human testing machines.

  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    Ralph BioFather of video games.
    Born in Germany.

  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    Jean BioDeveloped FORMAC programming language.
    Born in New York City.

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Came up with the concept of computer networking.
    Born in New York City.

  • J. Presper Eckert & John Mauchly

    J. Presper Eckert & John Mauchly
    Developed ENIAC.
    Goverment liked their ideas.

  • Philip Estridge

    Philip Estridge
    Created the original IBM personal computer.
    Sold over a million PC's.

  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    First commercial available computer.
    Went to university of Birmingham.

  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov
    Professor at Mass Institute of Techonology.
    First women for doctrine of computer sceince.

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    Pioneer of object programming personal computing.
    Was able to read books before he started school.

  • Nolan Bushnell

    Father of electronic gaming.
    Founded Chuckee-Cheese.

  • Gary Thuerk

    Gary Thuerk
    Father of spam.
    Graduated at University of Colorado.

  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
    All About VintonCo-designer of TCP/IP protocols.
    Vice President at Google.

  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    About AbhayDeveloped internet tcp/IP architecture.
    Studied @ MIT

  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn
    Developing first significant video arcade game.
    Co-founded Alcorn.

  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Found Womans Institute of Technology.
    Founded Systers ( first email for women ).

  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak
    Bio of SteveCo-founder of Apple computers.
    Founded the company who made the first universal remote.

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    About AlanAmerican software designer.
    Father of visual basic.

  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Steves BioCEO of Apple.
    He was adopted.

  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Invented the Java programming language.
    He's Canadian.

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    About TimInvented the world wide web
    English computer scientist.

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Software developer.
    Earned Silver Buffalo Award.

  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    About RobDeveloped the Unix computer.
    Researcher at AT&T lab.

  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
    About LinuxPrincipal force behind the development of Linux Kernel.
    Has 34 patents worldwide.