Computer Pioneer

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    Is known for the concept of a programmable computer
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    The world’s first computer programmer.
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke

    First woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States, as well as the country's first female professor of electrical engineering.
  • John Vincent Atanasoff

    John Vincent Atanasoff

    Found and invented the first electronic digital computer
  • Grace Hopper

    In 1943 during World War 2 Hopper was sworn into the United States Navy Preserve. She was one of the many woman who volunteered to serve in the waves.
  • Konrad Zuse

    Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, computers
  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet

    Is an American computer scientist who developed FORMAC programming language 1962
  • Philip Estridge

    Led development of the original IMB PC
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Wrote six books
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris

    Was the first computer hacker