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Computer Pioneers Birthdays and Contributions

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    Credited with the first idea of a programmable computer.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    The first computer programmer.
  • John Atanasoff

    John Atanasoff

    Click to Read More About John invented the first electronic digital computer.
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz

    A Bell labs researcher known for his work in the 1930's and 1940's.
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne

    Click to read More About Adam Created the first commercially available portable computing device.
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov

    Worked in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of objective-oriented programming.
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay

    Click to Read More About Alan Worked at Xerox, and Walt Disney Company after working fro Windows and Apple on the OS.
  • Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Bushnell

    Click to Read More About Nolan Created the computer game " Pong", and is one of the founders of video games.
  • Vint Cerf

    Vint Cerf

    Click to read More About Vint An American internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of the " Fathers of the internet".
  • Abhay Bhushnan

    Abhay Bhushnan

    Click For More Facts A major contributor to the development of the internet TCP/IP architecture.
  • Al Alcorn

    Al Alcorn

    The designer of the video arcade game Pong, creating it underthe direction of Nolan Bushnell and Dabney.
  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak

    Click to read More About Steve Co-founder of Apple Incorporation.
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling

    Click to Read More About James A Canadian computer scientist.
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates

    Click to Read More About Bill Co-founder of the Microsoft Incorporation.
  • Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds

    Click to Read More About Linus Creator of the Linux OS.