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was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer
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was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder , chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution
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is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
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Was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.
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was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
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was an English polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
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was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
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was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000.
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was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchistoun.
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is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Google. Page is the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm
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is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google.
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was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.