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Computer pioneers

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    Compuet Pioneers

  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    A mathmetician and a Computer Engineer
  • Reynold B. Johnson

    Reynold B. Johnson

    Awarded National Medal of Technology
  • grace Hopper

    grace Hopper

    American computer scientist that was a Navy Rear Admiral
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    Created Universal Turing Machine, died of cyanide poisoning
  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik

    Went into war, part of Gartner Group and Auerbach
  • Jean Sammet

    Jean Sammet

    Group leader of open shop, Age 87 currentley
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_OsborneDied in India, introduced first portable computer

  • Alan Kay

    Worked on windowing graphical user interface design
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_JobsFounded Apple, Started in his Garage, His mom called it Apple as a joke

  • James Gosling

    Father of Java and rceived The order of Canada
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_GatesFounded Microsoft, created IBM, released first windows in 1990
  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds

    Holds Linus trademark, 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award, and named after an asteroid
  • Marissa Mayer

    Marissa Mayer

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_MayerPresident and Ceo of Yahoo, also went to Stanford University

  • Gary Thuerk

    Father of SPAM, father of e-marketing

  • Nulan Bushnell

    Invented Pong, Lost money trying to make a robot