Computer Pioneers

By Jesssssica
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    A mathematician philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, best remembered for originating of the concept of a programmable computer
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    The Lovely Ada LovelaceAnalyst, Metaphysician, and Founder of Scientific Computing.
  • Edith Clarke

    Edith Clarke

    Earyl Edith ClarkeWrote Circuit Analysis of A-C and made a graphing calculator.
  • John Vincent Atanasoff

    John Vincent Atanasoff

    Best known for inventing the first electronic digital computer
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz

    George Stibitz Life SummaryCreator of the Complex Number Calculator.
  • Reynold B. Johnson

    Reynold B. Johnson

    Reynold B. Johnson's Life Reynold B. Johnson was given an award for establishing computer data storage.
  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer: Father of Video GamingCredited for the game console in the 1960’s
  • Phillip Estridge

    Phillip Estridge

    Led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and is known as "father of the IBM PC"
  • Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Bushnell

    Founded Computer Science, Atari, and developed Pong.
  • Vint Cerf

    Vint Cerf

    Father of the Internet.
  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan

    He 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.
  • Steve Wozniak

    Steve Wozniak

    Co-Founder of Apple.
  • James Gosling

    James Gosling

    Father of the Java Programming Language.
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee

    Inventor of the world wide web. Wrote the first web client and server in 1990.
  • Robert Morris

    Robert Morris

    He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988.