Most important personalities in computer history

Charles Babbage

Oct 18, 1821

Designed the Difference and Analytical Engines, the earliest direct progenitors of modern computers The Analytical Engine was the earliest expression of an all-purpose, programmable computer The University of Minnesota named in his honor The Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Computing

Konrad Zuse

Nov 28, 1936

Z1 Computer
First freely programmable computer.

John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry

Nov 28, 1942

ABC computer
Who was first in the computing biz is not always as easy as ABC.

Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper

Nov 28, 1944

invented Harvard Mark I Computer.

John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & Wiliam Shockley

Nov 28, 1947

No, a transistor is not a computer, but this invention greatly affected the history of computers.

Claude Shannon

Dec 2, 1949

Builds the first machine that plays chess

John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly

Nov 28, 1951

UNIVAC Computer
First commercial computer & able to pick presidential winners.

Andrew Kay

Nov 27, 1953

Best known as the father of the KAYPRO personal computer, the only major computer platform designed and manufactured in San Diego County
Inventor of the digital voltmeter for his own Non-Linear Systems in 1953
Inspiration for psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory of "enlightened management"

John Backus & IBM

Nov 28, 1954

FORTRAN Computer Programming Language
The first successful high level programming language.

Seymour Cray

Nov 27, 1958

Widely acknowledged as the "Father of the Supercomputer" Credited with developing the first fully transistorized supercomputer in 1958 A founding employee of Control Data Corporation in 1957; directed its engineering department 1957 to 1965 Invented CRAY-1 vector register technology, and innovative cooling designs for the CDC 6600 and CRAY-1 Founded ground-breaking Cray Research in 1972

Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

Nov 28, 1958

The Integrated Circuit. Otherwise known as 'The Chip'

Steve Russell & MIT

Nov 28, 1962

Spacewar Computer Game.
The first computer game invented.

Intel - RAM

Dec 2, 1970

Intel 4004
The world's first available dynamic RAM

Atari

Dec 2, 1972

Atari releases pong

Portable computers

Jan 21, 1975

Altair invents the first portable computer

Lee Felsenstein

Nov 27, 1975

Moderator of the now-legendary Homebrew Computer Club from 1975 through 1986
Designed the Processor Technology Sol, one of the first competitors to the Apple II
Designed the Osborne-I portable computer in 1981, the first mass-produced portable computer
Designer of the Pennywhistle modem, one of the first inexpensive modems for personal computers
An organizer of the Hacker's Conference in 1984
Currently a senior researcher and leader of rapid-prototyping engineering at Interval Research Corporati

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak

Dec 2, 1976

Apple computer was founded

Larry Wall

Dec 2, 1987

Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Aug 6, 1991

World wide web is launched to the pubblic

James Gosling,

Dec 2, 1995

Java is introduced.

Google

Sep 7, 1998

Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google

windows 2000

Dec 6, 2000

relesed windows 2000

Relesed langueage D and C(sharp)

Dec 6, 2000

Macbook Pro

Jan 6, 2006

Released the fisrt MacBook Pro by Apple

Google glass

Apr 16, 2013

Google developed the first intelligent glasses