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Period: to
Time of Computer Pioneers
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Edith Clark
Stability theory and circuit analysis -
John Atanasoff
Decveloper of the atanasoff - berry computer; created the calculator -
Reynold Johnson
Invented the Hard Drive -
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
Played a role in developing the ARPANET -
Barbara Liskov
Was a key figure in the development of applications that are on a distrubuted collections of a computer network -
Steve Wozniak
CoFounder of Apple Incorporated -
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James Gosling
Founder of Java -
