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Computer Pioneers

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  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Was one of the first Computer Programers
  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson
    Reynold B. Johnson was an American inventor and computer pioneer. A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive. Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipment and the videocassette tape
  • Alan Turning

    Alan Turning
    Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was a pioneering British computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist.
  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    Ralph Henry Baer was a German-born American video game developer, inventor, and engineer, and was known as "The Father of Video Games" due to his many contributions to games and the video game industry in the latter half of the 20th century
  • Philip Estridge

    Philip Estridge
    Philip Donald Estridge, known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC"
  • Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Bushnell
    Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain.
  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
    Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American Internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with fellow engineers Bob Kahn and Donald Davies.
  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Anita Borg was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak
    Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak, known as "Woz", is an American pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling
    James Arthur Gosling, OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    created unix computer operating system
  • Marissa Mayer

    Marissa Mayer
    Marissa Ann Mayer is an American business executive and computer scientist, currently serving as the president and CEO of Yahoo!, a position she has held since July 2012.
  • Mark Zuckerburg

    Mark Zuckerburg
    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook