I.T. Pioneers

By RobertCoombe

  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff
    John Atanasoff and Cliff Berry creates the first automatic electronic digital computer. Also known as (ABC)

  • John Mauchly

    John Mauchly
    John Mauchly creates ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) , which is the first electronic general - purpose computer.

  • Tommy Flowers

    Tommy Flowers
    MK 2 : Tommy Flowers creates the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Grace Hopper creates the first programming compiler (which transform source code written into a programming into another programming language.

  • John Backus

    John Backus
    John Backus creates a programming language called BNF, which is used nowadays called ALGOL 58.

  • Bjarne Stroustrup

    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Bjarne Stroustrup creates c++

  • Adam Osbourne

    Adam Osbourne
    Adam Obourne creates the Osbourne 1 , which is the first portable microcomputer.

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates creates the first PC with an operating system , 16 - bit called MS - DOs 1.0.

  • Tim Berners-lee

    Tim Berners-lee
    Tim Berners-lee creates the World Wide Web (www)

  • Larry Page

    Larry Page
    Larry Page cofounded Google.Inc and invented PageRank which is algorithm used by google search.