Computer Pioneers

By jamesswitter

  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    She invented key software technologies that paved the way for modern day computer languages

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence

  • adam osborne

    adam osborne
    learn more about him here He was best known for creating the first portable computer.

  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
    Cerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    learn more about him here American software designer and programmer
    Known as the “Father of Visual Basic

  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    learn more about steve jobs here he was an Inventor & Co-Founder of Apple

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    learn more about bill gates here He co-founded the software: Microsoft

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    He is the inventor of the World Wide Web. He first made the idea and proposed it in March of 1989. Then in mid November, he made successfully made the connection of HTTP client to a server

  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    He was the chief scientist of the National Computer Security Center, which is associated with the NSA.

  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Major contributions to advances in the technology for construction of distributed computing system trough invention of the java language system