Computer pioneer

Computer Pioneer Timeline

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    Learn about the Babbage Engine HERE Concept of programmable computer; considered the "Father of Computing"
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    More on Ada Lovelace HERE Founded Scientific Computing; she died of cancer at age 37
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke

    Wrote circuit analysis of A-C and made graphing calculator; she was the first female electric engineer
  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff

    1st electronic digital computer, attended Iowa State University
  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson

    Established computer data storage; known to be the "Father of the disk drive"
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper

    More on Grace Hopper's life HERE Invented 1st compiler for computer programming language; she was a naval war admiral
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse

    Made the 1st programmable computer; had 5 children
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    Wartime code break, made a machine to break German code; commited suicide
  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik

    Jean's Long Life HERE She was part of the original programmersof ENIAC computer; graduated high school at age 15
  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet

    Developed FORMAC programming language; she wasn't accepted in Bronx because she was a girl.
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne

    Software publisher; he was a british author
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov

    Argued that women should get to go to school too; she was educated in Massachussetts
  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf

    Father of Internet; chairman of ICANN
  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan

    Developement of internet TCP/IP architexture; he is currently the chairman of Asquare Inc
  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn

    All About Al HERECreated 1st video game; he himself did not play video games
  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg

    Founded the Institute for women and technology; She was born in Chicago, Illinios
  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper

    Created Goal-directed design methodology; he is known for his books
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    Started Apple Computer Co.; develped iPhone
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling

    Father of Java programming language; has a PHD in computer science
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates

    Co-founded Microsoft; dropped out of Harvard
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris

    American Computer Scientist; he is best known for creating the Morris worm