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Ada Lovelace
Founded scientific computing -
Ralph H. Baer
German-born American video game developer, inventor, and engineer, and was known as "The Father of Video Games" due to his many contributions to games and the video game industry in the latter half of the 20th century. -
Adam Osborne
He was best known for creating the first commercially available portable computer -
Nolan Bushnell
American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain -
James Gosling
He was credited with inventing the Java computing language -
Linus Torvalds
Principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel and now acts as the project's coordinator. -
Bill Gates
American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.[2][3][4] Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was also the largest individual shareholder up until May 2014.[5][a] He has also authored and co-authored several books.
