Computer

Computer Pioneers

By jadow
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Ada Lovelace was an analyst, Metaphysician, and Founder of Scientific Computing
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    Edith Clarke wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C and made a graphing calculator.
  • John Vincent Atanasoff

    John Vincent Atanasoff
    Best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    Creator of the Complex Number Calculator.
  • Reynold B. Johnson

    Reynold B. Johnson
    Reynold B. Johnson was given an award for establishing computer data storage.
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language.
  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    Ralph Baer was redited for the game console in the 1960’s
  • Jean E. Sammet

    Jean E. Sammet
    Developed FORMAC programming language.
  • Phillip Estridge

    Phillip Estridge
    Led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and is known as "father of the IBM PC" 
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    Adam Osborne is a British author, book and software publisher, one of the most persuasive, egotistical, and supremely confident in the computing field, and in all industry.
  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    He has been a major contributor to the development of the internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol and the early versions of email protocols.
  • Allen Alcorn

    Allen Alcorn
    Created the first significant video arcade game
  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Anita Bog was an American computer scientist. She founded the institute for women and technology.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Started apple computer co. pulled apple out of near bankruptcy and developed the Iphone
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    Father of the Java programming language
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates Co-founded Microsoft
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was an american computer scientist.