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Charles Babbage
He was born on 26 december 1791. He is also known as The Father Of The Computer. He originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. He is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer. Mechanical computer was mechanical built, it had no electronic parts. He only used levers and gear. Examples are adding machines and mechanical counters. -
John Von Neumann
Von Neumann was born on December 28 1903. Von Neumann was a founding figure in computing. Von Neumann was the inventor, in 1945, of the merge sort algorithm, in which the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged together. -
Barbara Liskov
She was born on november 7 1939. She is an American computer scientist. She is known for her invention OS (Operating System) It is important because it is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. And today it is used in most electronic devices -
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklide
He was an american computer scientist born on march 11 1915. He invented the our well known cloud storage. In the 1960s he invented cloud storage. Today we use it to coonect people or data from anywhere at any time. -
Bill gates
Bill Gates born in 28 October 1955. He was an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, landowner and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows. It was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4 1975. -
Steve Wozniak
Steve is also known as Woz. Woz was born August 11 1950. He is an American electronics engineer. 26 years later he co-founded Apple Inc. with his business partner Steve Jobs. Now Apple Inc. is the world's largest company by market capitalization. As of November 2019, Wozniak has remained an employee of Apple in a ceremonial capacity since stepping down in 1985. -
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee also known as TimBl. He was born on the 8 June 1955. He was an English Scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first Web Browser in 1990 while he was employed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. Tim is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium. A fun fact you might have not known is that without TimBl we would have not had the internet -
James Gosling
He was born may 19 1955. He is a Canadian computer scientist. He is the inventor of java programming language. Java is important because we use it in all electronic devices we use for example java is in all apps. Without him computer scientist will not have Java.