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charles babbage
mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer. -
ada loveys
Ada Lovelace's contributions to the field of computer science were not discovered until the 1950s. Her notes were reintroduced to the world by B.Y. Bowden, who republished them in Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines in 1953. Since then, Ada has received many posthumous honors for her work. In 1980, -
edith clarke
was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems -
reynold johnson
Famous for creating the first computer hard disk drive -
grace hopper
was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. -
Ralph H. Baer
Ralph H. Baer in Manchester, N.H., in 2005 with the game system he invented called the "brown box," later named Odyssey. He was also a co-inventor of the electronic game Simon, pictured in the foreground. -
barbara liskov
served as the Associate Head for Computer Science from 2001 to 2004. -
nolan bushnell
Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. -
leonard kleinrock
A computer science professor at UCLA, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical foundations of computer networking. -
al alcorn
was the designer of the video arcade game Pong, creating it under the direction of Nolan Bushnell and Delaney. Pong was a hit in the 1970s. -
steve wozniak
He was the founder of Apple Computer, Co. now known as Apple Inc.His full birth name is Stephen Gary Wozniak and his nickname is Woz,Woz's start-up company CL 9 developed the first universal remote control, the CORE, in 1987. The company was in business for three -
bill gates
American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company -
steve jobs
he founded apple, steve jobs started in his garage and he got the name when his mom was joking and said to call it it apple -
robert morris
an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet, and later for companies he has founded. -
Linus Torvalds
1996, the asteroid 9793 Torvalds was named after him
-In 2000, he was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century poll,torvalds holds the "Linux" trademark and monitors the use of it. On April 23, 2014, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers named Torvalds as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award.
