Computer Pioneers

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  • Edith Clark

    Edith Clark

    Stability theory and circuit analysis
  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff

    Decveloper of the atanasoff - berry computer; created the calculator
  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson

    Invented the Hard Drive
  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet

    She initiated the concept, and directed the development, of the first FORMAC (FORmula MAnipulation Compiler. (FORMAC was the first widely used general language and system for manipulating nonnumeric algebraic expressions.) Click Here #1<a href='http://www.ncwit.org/profile/jean-sammet' >Click Here #2</a><a href='http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/sammet' >Click Here #3</a>
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock

    Played a role in developing the ARPANET
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov

    Was a key figure in the development of applications that are on a distrubuted collections of a computer network
  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak

    CoFounder of Apple Incorporated
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    The Creatot of Mac & Pixar Click Here #1 Click Here #2 Click Here #3
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling

    Founder of Java
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates