Computer Pioneers By Justine Gardner Dec 26, 1791 Charles Babbage Inventor of the first automatic computing engine Dec 10, 1815 Ada Lovelace Writer of the 1st computer program Feb 1, 1906 Reynold Johnson Invented the disc drive Dec 27, 1924 Jean Bartik One of the first programmers of ENIAC Jun 13, 1934 Leonard Kleinrock Helped to create first networking Jun 23, 1937 Philip Estridge Father of the IBMPC Mar 6, 1939 Adam Osborn Invented the first portable computer Feb 1, 1940 Alan Kay Computer language called FLEX Jun 23, 1943 Vint Cerf Father of Internet Jan 1, 1948 Al Alcorn Helped invent video game industry and "Pong" (Worlds first video game) Jun 3, 1952 Alan Cooper Father of visual basics Feb 1, 1955 Tim Berners -Lee Created the world-wide web Feb 1, 1955 James Gosling Father of Java Programming Language Feb 24, 1955 Steve Jobs Chief Executive Officer of Apple Inc. Oct 28, 1955 Bill Gates Founder of Miscorsoft May 1, 1978 Gary Thuerk Created E-Marketing