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Charles Babbage
Credited for inventing the first mechanical computer. never was able to make it work. the name of his computer was the difference engine. -
Ada Lovelace
she was the first computer programmer -
Differential Analyzer
FIrst computer that could intigrate differential equations in any order. made by James Thompson -
Herman Hollerith
Made the census counting machine in 1887. it took him seven years to compleate. -
Alan Turing
made the Turing machine, which figured out codes and made them into words. figured out the german code which helped the americans win the war. -
Grace Hopper
She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. She made the word "debugging" popular. She inspired FORTRAN and COBOL -
ENIAC
made by John Mauchly and John Presper Ecket. funded by the millitary because they needed a computer to calculate artillery firing. -
Mark II
made at Harvard university under the directions of Howard Aiken -
C
the most common computer launguage, it tells the computer what to do. -
Bill Gates
one of the richest people in the world still today. created PC and WINDOWS. helped create BASIC -
JAVA
Programming launguage that does not support C. -
Amazon
the most commonly known online ordering website in the world. -
Steve Jobs
CEO and CO founder of Apple. Member of the board of directors of Disney. CEO and CO founder of PIXAR. He invented tablet computers. the IPHONE the IPOD he made the biggest impact on the 20th century. Also made the first PDA -
PS3
One of the most common video game systems of the 20th century.
