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Computer Pioneers

By awauer

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Ada's LifeFirst Computer programmer and inventer of the difference engine

  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff
    Atanasoff's lifeInvented the first digital computer and is also one of the first to use binary as a program

  • Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Bushnell
    Bushnell's LifeInvented the disk drive and died of melanoma

  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    Bartik's LifeCreated the stored program computer and is also one of the six human computers

  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet
    Sammet's LifeCreated the FORMAC programming language and also helped IBM

  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
    Helped develope the personal computer and also died in a plane crash

  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    Created first portable computer and a fan of fishing

  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    Created object oriented programming and a tennis player

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Creator of Atari and also helped in making Chuck E Cheese Music Theater

  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn
    invented pong and also co-founder of atari

  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak
    Apple Co-Founder and Steve Jobs best friend

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    Invented the Ruby programming language and also won the windows pioneer award

  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Inventer of Java and a Hacker

  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Co-Creator of Apple and is also a college dropout

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    Invented the World Wide Web(WWW) and is also British