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Ada Lovelace
Lovelace was an English mathematician. She was born 1815 and died 1852. She was called “the first computer programmer”. During her lifetime, she worked on mathematician Charles Babbage´s proposed general-purpose computer, named the Analytical engine. She famously recognised that the Analytical engine could have more uses, apart from just pure calculations. Therefore, she created the first algorithm with the intention it would be carried out by the Analytical engine. She did this in the 1940s. -
Alan Turing
Turing was an English mathematician an computer scientist. During his lifetime, Turing worked a lot with the development of theoretical computer science. He is most famous for creating the Turing machine. A general-purpose computer with the capability to compute everything that could be computed. It could model a machine that would perate mechanically on a tape, by reading symbols. He did this in 1936. In fact, the central concept of the computers used today are based upon Turings´s ideas. -
John Vincent Atanasoff
Atanasoff was an American physicist. He was born 1903 and died 1995. He was important year 1939, because it was that year he invented the first real electronic computer. It was a special-purpose computer, designed to only be capable of solving systems of linear equations. The computer could solve 29 equations at the same time. The main reason he invented it was to ease the work for physicists. Linear equations were at this time becoming a common problem in physics. -
John Backus
Backus was an American computer scientist. He was important in the history of computing because he directed the team who invented the first programming language in 1954. The programming language was called FORTRAN. The language was created to enhance and shorten the process of programming, but also to make it more accessible. Although it has declined in popularity over the world, it is still used in engineering simulations and financial trading. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist and engineer. In 1990, he developed a programming language known as HTML at a physics laboratory called CERN which gave rise to the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system which makes webpages and other data files accessible via either the Internet or the intranet. “The Web”, which it is called, created prerequisites for a wider use of the Internet. His invention eased the using of internet all over the world.
