Computerpioneer

Computer Pioneers By: Tatum Hanson

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    read moreHe invented the first calculating machine and is known as the father of the computer.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    read moreFirst computer programmer. Worked on Charles Babbage's early computer.
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke

    read moreRecievd the first patent for a garaphical calculator
  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff

    read moreHe invented the first digital computer
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz

    read moreCreated the first relays for automated computing
  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson

    Inventor of the first computer hard disk drive
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper

    Invented the first computer complier
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse

    Created the first higher level programming language and the first program controlled computing machine
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    Lead inventor of the turing machine and helped decipher German code
  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer

    Invented the first video game
  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik

    Helped create ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris

    Invented UNIX computer operating system and is known as the original thinker in computer science
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock

    Invented the mathmatical theory of packet networks and developed the underpinning of the internet
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov

    First woman in the U.S. to recieve a Ph.D. and lead the Venus operating system
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

    Created object oriented programming