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John Atanasoff creation of the first electronic computer
Invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930's, between 1954 and 1973 there were various patent disputes -
John Mauchly
John William Mauchly was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC(1942), the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC(1944), BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. -
Tommy Flowers
During WWII Tommy Flowers was tasked with creating a decoder for the relay-based bombe machine, which would decrypt german codes. The project was abandoned which lead flower's to create the Geheimschreiber in 1943, after that Flowers proposed an elctronic system called Colossus work had begun, ten were produced and used for the remander of WWII -
Grace Hopper and COBOL
In 1944, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and the one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches, at one point a moth was removed from a computer hence the name. -
douglas Engelbart the first mouse
Known for developing computer interface elements such as bitmapped screens, the mouse, hypertext, collaborative tools, and precursors to the graphical user interface. Back then most computers were inaccessible to many individuals. In 1967 Engelbart applied for a patent in and got it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels, somehow this block of wood was a mouse. -
Bjarne
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.Denmark, and a Ph.D. in computer science (1979) -
steve jobs
created various play toys such as the Mac books and ipod etc. In 1976 the first apple computer. -
steve wozniak Apple toys and such
an American inventor, electronics engineer, and computer programmer who co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly designed both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s. These computers contributed significantly to the microcomputer revolution. -
John Backus FORTRAN
John Backus directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to it become known -
Bill gates and MS DOS
BIll Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975 he then worked under Microsoft, that partnered with IBM to created MS DOS in the 1980's. -
Adam Osborne
He was best known for creating the first commercially available portable computer, the Osborne 1, released in April 1981. It weighed 24.5 pounds, cost $1795 -
Tim Bernes-Lee
is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989 then in 1990 he redistributed it was accepted by his manager Mike Sendall, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year. First website built was uploaded on August 1991. -
John Mauchly
is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989 then in 1990 he redistributed it was accepted by his manager Mike Sendall, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year. First website built was uploaded on August 1991. -
Robert Gaskins and Powerpoint
"Robert Gaskins invented PowerPoint, drawing on ten years of interdisciplinary graduate study at UC Berkeley and five years as manager of computer science research for an international telecommunications R&D laboratory in Silicon Valley." Many original documents written by Robert Gaskins during the early history of PowerPoint's strategy and development are online -
Larry page cofounder of google
In 1998, Page and his friend Sergey Brin incorporated Google, Inc. The domain name was Googol in the begining, Googol was choosen to represent the number of results that could be found. In short Page's mission with google was to "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."
