Computer Pioneers

By Jesssssica

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    A mathematician philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, best remembered for originating of the concept of a programmable computer

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    The Lovely Ada LovelaceAnalyst, Metaphysician, and Founder of Scientific Computing.

  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    Earyl Edith ClarkeWrote Circuit Analysis of A-C and made a graphing calculator.

  • John Vincent Atanasoff

    John Vincent Atanasoff
    Best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer

  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    George Stibitz Life SummaryCreator of the Complex Number Calculator.

  • Reynold B. Johnson

    Reynold B. Johnson
    Reynold B. Johnson's Life Reynold B. Johnson was given an award for establishing computer data storage.

  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    Ralph Baer: Father of Video GamingCredited for the game console in the 1960’s

  • Phillip Estridge

    Phillip Estridge
    Led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and is known as "father of the IBM PC"

  • Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Bushnell
    Founded Computer Science, Atari, and developed Pong.

  • Vint Cerf

    Vint Cerf
    Father of the Internet.

  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    He has been a major contributor to the development of the internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol and the early versions of email protocols.

  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak
    Co-Founder of Apple.

  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Father of the Java Programming Language.

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    Inventor of the world wide web. Wrote the first web client and server in 1990.

  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988.