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Charles Babbage
He was known as The inventor of the analytical engine, which contained Arithmetic logic unit, flow control, and memory. Was the basic general purpose of the computer
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Ada Lovelace
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George Stibitz
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Reynold Johnson
A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive
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Grace Hopper
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John Mauchly
Read moreIn 1942 Mauchly wrote a memo proposing the building of a general-purpose electronic computer. The proposal, which circulated within the Moore School (but the significance of which was not immediately recognized), emphasized the enormous speed advantage that could be gained by using digital electronics with no moving parts -
Konrad Zuse
Read moreHe created the Z1,Z2,Z3(the world's first fully operational stored-program electromechanical computer.),Z4. He made them for a German airplane company during world war 2. After ww2 he then sold his work to Swiss federal institute. His contribution as changed computers for ever and the world will remember his name for ever -
Alan Turing
Read more He was highly influential in the development of giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. -
John Presper Eckbert
Read MoreJohn Adam Presper was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, presented the first course in computing topics, founded the first commercial computer company , and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.