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John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor, best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College
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Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive. Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipment and the videocassette tape.
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Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer
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Ralph Henry Baer was a 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.
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Jean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
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Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962
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He played an influential role in the development of the ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, at UCLA.
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Philip Donald Estridge, known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC"
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Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain.
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Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak, known as "Woz", is an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s
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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc
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James Arthur Gosling, OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
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a cryptographer who helped develop the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world’s computers and touches almost every aspect of modern life
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer, who is the creator of the Linux kernel and for a long time, principal developer
