Computer Pioneers

Charles Babbage

Dec 26, 1791

AboutCharles Babbage, FRS was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage is best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.

Edith Clarke

Feb 10, 1883

BiographyEdith 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. also made a graphig calculator

John Atanasoff

Oct 4, 1903

BiographyJohn Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor, best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer. Atanasoff invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College.

Konrad Zuse

Jun 22, 1910

AboutKonrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941.

Alan Turing

Jun 23, 1912

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist, and marathon and ultra distance runner.

Ralph Baer

Mar 8, 1922

Ralph Baer was born in March 8, 1922. He was credited for the game console in 1960. Is known as "Father of Video Games"

Jean Bartik

Dec 27, 1925

Jean Bartik was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

Jean Sammet

May 23, 1928

Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962.

Nolan Bushnell

Feb 5, 1943

Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain

Vinton Cerf

Jun 23, 1943

Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American engineer Bob Kahn

Anita Borg

Jan 17, 1949

Anita Borg was an American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. She was born Anita Borg Naffz in Chicago, Illinois

Steve Wozniak

Aug 11, 1950

Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak, known as "Woz", is an American electrical engineer who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly designed both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s

Steve Jobs

Feb 24, 1955

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

James Gosling

May 19, 1955

James Arthur Gosling, OC is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language

Bill Gates

Oct 28, 1955

BiographyBill Gates Co-Founded Microsoft. He is also a philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.