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Christopher Latham Sholes
was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician. Sholes returned to Milwaukee and continued to work on new improvements for the typewriter throughout the 1870s, which included the QWERTY keyboard (1873). -
John Mauchly
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. -
Tommy Flowers
During WWII Tommy Flowers was tasked with creating a decoder for the relay-based bombe machine, which would decrypt german codes. The project was abandoned which lead flower's to create the Geheimschreiber in 1943, after that Flowers proposed an elctronic system called Colossus work had begun, ten were produced and used for the remander of WWII -
John Atanasoff
Invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930's, between 1954 and 1973 there were various patent disputes -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was 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, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and the one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (in -
John Backus
He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart is known for developing computer interface elements such as bitmapped screens, the mouse, hypertext, collaborative tools, and precursors to the graphical user interface. Many of his ideas came in mid-1960s back then most computers were inaccessible to many individuals. In 1967 Engelbart applied for a patent in and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels. This was the first mouse. -
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language. Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science (1975) from Aarhus University, Denmark, and a Ph.D. in computer science (1979) -
Bill Gates
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975 because he saw an opportunity to start a computer software, Microsoft, that partnered with IBM to created MS DOS in the 1980's. MS DOS's sales helped make Mircosoft the computer company they are today. -
Adam Osborne
Osborne was known to frequent the famous Homebrew Computer Club's meetings around 1975. He was best known for creating the first commercially available portable computer, the Osborne 1, released in April 1981. It weighed 24.5 pounds, cost $1795—just over half the cost of a computer from other manufacturers with comparable features -
Dan Bricklin
Often referred to as “The Father of the Spreadsheet”, is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned by Web.com. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of Alpha Software -
Robert Gaskins
Robert Gaskins invented PowerPoint, drawing on ten years of interdisciplinary graduate study at UC Berkeley and five years as manager of computer science research for an international telecommunications R&D laboratory in Silicon Valley. Many original documents written by Robert Gaskins during the early history of PowerPoint's strategy and development are online -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989 then in 1990 he redistributed it and was accepted by his manager Mike Sendall, he then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year. First website built was uploaded on August 1991 -
Larry Page
Larry Page is most well known for cofounding google. In 1998, Page and his friend Sergey Brin incorporated Google, Inc. The domain name was Googol in the begining, Which was derived from a number that consists of one followed by one hundred zeros. Googol was choosen to represent the number of results that could be found. In short his mission with google was to "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and helpful."
