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Computer Pioneers

By TLambie
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    First woman to earn an electrical engineering degree.
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    One of the fathers of the first digital computer
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    Inventor of the worlds first program controlled computer
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    Father of Computer Science adn Artificial intelligence
  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet
    Computers first scientific programming group
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Created the first networking system
  • Adan Osborne

    Adan Osborne
    Invented the first portable computer
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov
    Computer Scientist. One of the top women at MIT
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    Invented the computer langauge caleld Flex (flexible extended language)
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Pioneer of Microcomputer revolution. Co-founder of Apple
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Father of Java Programming Language
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Founded Microsoft (personal Computer company)
  • Robert Tappan Morris

    Robert Tappan Morris
    Creating the first computer worm on the internet
  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
    Invented Linux operating system
  • Ben Silbermann

    Ben Silbermann
    CEO of Pinterest