Computer Pioneers

  • ada lovelace

    ada lovelace
    Very 1st computer programer.
  • George Sibitz

    He is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer
  • reynold johson

    reynold johson
    invented an electronic test scoring machine that sensed pencil marks on a standardized form.
  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    She attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in mathematics and graduating in 1945.
  • Barbara Liskoy

    Barbara Liskoy
    In 1968 she became one of the first women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science.
  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    He been a major contributor to the development of the Internet architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol.
  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn
    He worked for the pioneering video company Ampex, where he met Ted Dabney and several other people that would end up being constants
  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Borg got her first programming job in 1969. Although she loved math while growing up, she did not originally intend to go into computer science and taught herself to program
  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    While working towards his doctorate, he wrote a version of Emacs called Gosling Emacs
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    He is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    he United States, was a Liverpool-born American merchant who financed the American Revolution and signed the Declaration of Independence
  • Marrissa Mayer

    She is currently as the president and CEO of Yahoo!, a position she has held since July 2012.
  • ben Silbermann

    ben Silbermann
    Subsequently, the gifted student graduated from Des Moines Central Academy and Des Moines Roosevelt with the class of 1999