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John Napier
Named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchistoun. -
Blaise Pascal
He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.He started calculating machines and he invented the mechanical calculator. -
Charles Babbage
He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer. -
Lady Augusta Ada
Commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, -
Howard Aiken
was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. -
Tommy Flowers
He designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. -
Alan Turing
was a British mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. -
Jack Kilby
as an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. -
Steve Jobs
Was an American entrepreneur,marketer,and inventor,who was the co-founder ,chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. -
Bill Gates
Is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft. -
Larry Page
Is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin. -
Sergey Brin
Is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies