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Ads Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was a British mathematician and writer, born on december 10, 1815. In 1843 she came up with what is considered to be the first computer program. She wrote a sequence that was supposed to calculate bernoulli numbers. This was all made for the calculating machine, Difference Engine, made by Charles Babbage. Ada died on November 27 1852 in London, England. -
The first computer
The first substantial computer was built during world war 2. John Mavenly and J. Presper Eckert started building the machine in 1943, at the university of pennsylvania and was finished with the project in 1946. The first computer was called ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and calculator. -
The first autocode
The first autocode was developed in 1952 by the British computer scientist Alick Glennie. The autocode is considerd to be the first compoled programming language and it was made for the mark 1 computer -
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is an American software developer, amongst other things, who was born on october 28, 1955. He is co-founder of iconic software, Microsoft Corporation which was created in 1975. He is now one of the richest people in the world. -
First computer mouse
The first computer mouse was invented in 1964, by Douglas Engelbart. He came up with a device that could interact with information that is displayed on the computer. However, the mouse didn't get popular until apple releases the macintosh 20 years later.
