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Computer Pioneers
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Charles Babbage
Know more about him atHe made the first mechanical computer and a gold medalists of the royal astronomical society. -
Ada Lovelace
Know more about her atShe was the first computer programmer. She also wrote the machine algorithm. -
Edith Clarke
Know more about her atShe translated mathematical methods and she was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. -
George Stibitz
Know more about him atInternationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. Known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element. -
Grace Hopper
Know more about her atShe's an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944. -
Konrad Zuse
He was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer. -
Jean Bartik
She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. -
Leonard Kleinrock
He is an American engineer and computer scientist . A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking. He also played an important role in the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, at UCLA. -
Philip Estridge
He led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". -
Barbara Liskov
She's an American Computer Scientist. She's a programmer of languages and system design. -
Nolan Bushnell
He is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. -
Abhay Bushan
Chairman of Asquare inc. -
James Gosling
He's a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language. -
Bill Gates
He programmed and formed Microsoft and he became a paper billionare in 1986. -
Linus Trovalt
He is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel and now acts as the project's coordinator.
