Computer Pioneers

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  • Ada LoveLace

    Ada LoveLace
    Learn more about Ada Lovelace
    Gifted mathematician,theorized a method for the engine to repeat a series of instructions, a process known as looping that computer programs use today.

  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke
    Learn more about Edith ClarkeEdith Clarke was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems.

  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    Lean more about George StibitzGeorge Stibitz is known as one of the foundering fathers of the modern first digital computer.he was born in York Pennsylvania. He was a Bell Labs researcher known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s.

  • Reynold Johnson

    Reynold Johnson
    Lean more about Reynolds Johnsoninvented an electronic test scoring machine

  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    Lean more about Jean BartikShe attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, majoring in mathematics and graduating in 1945. Jennings graduated as the only math major from her college.

  • Philip Estridge

    Philip Estridge
    Lean more about Philip Don EstridgePhilip Donald Estridge, known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC".

  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Cerf
    Learn more about Vinton CerfWent to stanford
    Also went to UCLA
    Began envisioning the internet in 1972
    Won draper prize
    Won presidential medal of freedom
    Worked for IBM

  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    Learn more about Abhay BhushanAbhay Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol and the early versions of email protocols.

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper
    Lean more about Alan CooperAlan Cooper is known as the father of Visual Basic

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Learn more about Bill GatesHe is the founder of the computer program Microsoft.

  • Jack Dorsey

    Jack Dorsey
    Learn more about Jack DorseyJack Dorsey is an American programmer and entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.

  • Alexis Ohanian

    Alexis Ohanian
    Lean more about Alexis OhanianIn 2011 and 2012, Ohanian was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list as an important figure in the technology industry.
    In 2013, Ohanian and Erik Martin were featured as "champions of innovation" in the 20th Anniversary issue of Wired.

  • Marissa Mayer

    Marissa Mayer
    Learn more about Marissa MayerMarissa Ann Mayer is an American business executive and computer scientist, currently serving as the president and CEO of Yahoo!, a position she has held since July 2012.

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    Learn more about Tim Berners-LeeSir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris
    Learn more about Robert Morris1.) cryptographer who helped develop the Unix computer operating system.
    2.) He died by complications of dementia.
    3.) Begun as a research effort at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories in the 1960's, Unix became one of the world’s leading operating systems, along with Microsoft’s Windows.
    4.) He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s in applied mathemati