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computer pioneers

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  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    to learn more He created the Z1,Z2,Z3(the world's first fully operational stored-program electromechanical computer.),Z4. He made them for a German airplane company during world war 2. After ww2 he then sold his work to Swiss federal institute. His contribution as changed computers for ever and the world will remember his name for ever.
  • J. Presper Eckert & John Mauchly

    J. Presper Eckert & John Mauchly
    to learn moreJohn Adam Presper was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, presented the first course in computing topics, founded the first commercial computer company , and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.
  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    to learn moreCreator of the Odyssey, the first gaming console.He started the console making industry, he has been the recipient of many professional honors including the National Medal of Technology which was presented to me by the President of the United States in 2006
  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    to learn moreOne of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.
  • Jean E. Sammet

    Jean E. Sammet
    Jean is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962.
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov
    She led the Venus operating system project, a small, low-cost and interactive timesharing system
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    He was best known for creating the first portable computer.
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    He is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering[1] "for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers" the Alan. M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery "for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming langua
  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
    Cerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Inventor & Co-Founder of Apple