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Charles Babbage Computer Hope.comIn 1822, Charles Babbage conceptualized and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing machine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. Babbage received some help with development of the Difference Engine from Ada Lovelace, considered by many to be the first computer programmer for her work and notes on the Difference Engine. Unfortunately, because of funding, Babbage was never able to complete a full
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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.
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Reynold JohnsonGoogle.comInvented the disc drive
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Konrad ZuseKonrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Wikipedia
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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.
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Ralph Baer Ralph Henry Baer was a German-born American video game developer, inventor, and engineer, and was known as "The Father of Video Games" due to his many contributions to games and the video game industry in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Jean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
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Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962
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known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC".
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Founder of Atari and Computer engineer
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Father of the Internet
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Co-Founder of Apple
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
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Made Java Program
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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
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Bill Gates William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.
