Comp pioneer

Computer Pioneers

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    Had the concept of a programable computer
    Parts of one of his unfinished computers in a muesuem
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Worker on the analytical engine
    Her dad was a poet
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    Edith Clarke info
    One of the first civil engineers
    Became a math teacher
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper WebsiteFirst programmer of Mark 1
    Was in the Navy for many years
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz Information
    Father of first modern digital computer
    Had a mathematics PHD
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    Devolper of computer science
    Prosecuted for homosexual acts
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Developed ARPNRT
    Born in New York
  • Adam Osbourne

    Adam Osbourne
    Made first convertable computer
    Went to University of Birmingham
  • Barbara Liskov

    Worked with Venus Operating System
    Born in California
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    Was a Xerox researcher
    Able to read at 3 years old
  • Gary Thuerk

    Gary Thuerk Info
    Inventer of junk email
    Went to University of Colorado
  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn
    Made the First Video Game
    Game was called Pong
  • Anita Borg

    Founder of Womens Institute of Technology
    In Fonders of Sisters
  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    Father of visual basic
    Made american software
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates Biography
    Creator of Microsoft
    Won Silver Buffalo Award