Computer Pioneers

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    Charles Babbage InstituteThe invention of the analytical engine, which contained Arithmetic logic unit, flow control, and memory. Was the basic general purpose of the computer
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    written instructions for the first computer program
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    She invented key software technologies that paved the way for modern day computer languages.
  • Reynold b. Johnson

    Reynold b. Johnson
    In the early 1930s, Johnson, then a high school science teacher in Michigan, invented an electronic test scoring machine that sensed pencil marks on a standardized form.
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse
    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.
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    He was best known for creating the first portable computer.
  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
    His SiteCerf is the co-inventor of the architecture and basic protocols of the Internet.
  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Formed the institute for women and technology
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    BiographyInventor & Co-Founder of Apple
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    He co-founded the software: Microsoft