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Charles Babbage
Named Father of the computer Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer. -
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was an assistant to Charles Babbbage making the first mechincal calculator -
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Computer Pioneers
The births of some of the most famous people responsible for pioneering and advancing computers -
Edith Clarke
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. -
Grace Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944 -
Reynold Johnson
Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive. Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipment and the videocassette tape. -
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. -
Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner. -
Jean Bartik
Jean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. -
Phillip Estridge
Philip Donald Estridge, known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". -
Anita Borg
More About BorgAnita Borg was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois. -
Alan Kay
More About BushnellMore About KayAlan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. -
Gary Thurek
Gary Thurek was the first person in history to send first unsolicited mass e-mailing resulting in the invention of the spam email. Many people hated Gary Thurek for the invention. -
Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain. -
Bill Gates
More About GatesWilliam Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was also the largest individual shareholder up until May 2014. -
Linus Torvalds
More About LinusLinus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems.
