Computer Pioneers

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    Charles Babbage

    is known for the concept of a programmable computer
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    Ada Lovelace

    The worlds first computer programmer
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    John Vincent Atanasoff

    Found and invented the first electronic digital computer
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    George Stibitz

    George Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer
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    Reynold Johnson

    Created the scoring system that is used to score state tests used today
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    Konrad Zuse

    Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, computers
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    Philip Estridge

    Led development of the original IMB PC
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    He developed the mathmatical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet, while a graduate student at MIT in the period from 1960-1962
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    Adam Osborne

    Inroduced the first portable computer. He specialized in easy-to-follow computer manuals. Founded Paperback Software International, which specialized in inexpencive computer software
  • Alan Kay

    Computer related contributions