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The world’s first computer programmer.
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Edith Clarke was born in Ellicott City, Maryland in 1883, one of nine children. Both her parents died by the time she was twelve and with the money she inherited when she turned 18, she decided to study mathematics and astronomy at Vassar College. After graduating, Edith taught mathematics and physics, first at a private girls' school in San Francisco and then at Marshall College in West Virginia. Wanting to be an engineer, however, Clarke enrolled in the civil engineering program at the Univers
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She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark 1 computer. She developed the first complier for a computer programming language. Grace also conceptualized the idea of machine independent programming languages. She was credited with popularizing the term “debugging” for fixing computer glitches.
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Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, computers
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Is an American computer scientist who developed FORMAC programming language 1962
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Led development of the original IMB PC
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Steve Wozniak is known for being the co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs. He also is known for inventing the Apple Computer ||.
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First computer hacker
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Best known for Linux Kernel and Git
