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Lady Augusta Ada
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 -
Steve Jobs
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 -
Bill Gates
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. -
Alan Turing
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. -
Blaise Pascal
was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. -
Charles Babbages
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. -
Howard Aiken
was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. -
Jack Kilby
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. -
John Napier
was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchistoun.
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Larry Page
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 -
Sergey Brin
is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google. -
Tommy Flowers
was a British engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.