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charles babbage
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ada lovelace
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edith clarke
EdithEdith Clarke was born in Ellicott City, Maryland in 1883, one of nine children. Both her parents died by the time she was twelve and with the money she inherited when she turned 18, she decided to study mathematics and astronomy at Vassar College. After graduating, Edith taught mathematics and physics, first at a private girls' school in San Francisco and then at Marshall College in West Virginia. Wanting to be an engineer, however, Clarke enrolled in the civil engineering program at the Univers -
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edith clarke
Edith Clarke was born in Ellicott City, Maryland in 1883, one of nine children. Both her parents died by the time she was twelve and with the money she inherited when she turned 18, she decided to study mathematics and astronomy at Vassar College. After graduating, Edith taught mathematics and physics, first at a private girls' school in San Francisco and then at Marshall College in West Virginia. Wanting to be an engineer, however, Clarke enrolled in the civil engineering program at the Univers -
John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent AtanasoffFound and invented the first electronic digital computer -
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john vincent atanasoff
Found and invented the first electronic digital computer -
George Stibitz
George StibitzGeorge Robert Stibitz is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer. -
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george stibitz
In 1939 Stibitz helped design the Model I complex number calculator which could add two eight-digit decimal numbers in a tenth of a second -
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reynold johnson
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grace hopper
She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark 1 computer. She developed the first complier for a computer programming language. Grace also conceptualized the idea of machine independent programming languages. She was credited with popularizing the term “debugging” for fixing computer glitches -
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konrad zuse
Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, computers -
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philip estridge
Led development of the original IMB PC -
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adam osborne
Introduced the first portable computer
