technology/computer pioneers

By jayhobo

  • Charles Babbage

    learn about him here"father of the computer"

  • Ada Lovelace

    learn more about her hereshe is known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer

  • Ada Lovelace died

  • Charles Babbage died

  • Edith Clarke

    dith Clarke was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.

  • John Atanasoff

    he made the electronic digital computer

  • George Stibitz

    complex number calculator

  • Reynold Johnon

    created the computer data storage

  • Grace Hopper

    she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language.

  • John mauchly

    ENIAC 1

  • Konrad Zuse

    he made the first programable computer

  • Alan Turing

    he made a machine for german decoding during world war 2

  • J. Presper Eckert

    ENIAC 1

  • Ralph Baer

    created the game console during the 1960s

  • Jean Bartik

    ENIAC

  • Jean Sammet

    Jean E. Sammet is an American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language in 1962

  • Philip Estridge

    led development of the original IBM Personal Computer

  • Adam Osborne

    software publisher

  • Barbara Liskov

    one of the first women to recieve a Ph.D

  • Alan Kay

    he made a computer for all ages

  • Nolan Bushnell

    Nolan Kay Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain.

  • Vinton Cerf

    Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American internet pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet"

  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan 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.

  • Al Alcorn

    play it yourselfmade the first video game even though he did not play them.

  • Anita Borg

    she madean institute for women

  • Steve Wozniak

    co-founder of apple

  • Alan Cooper

    Alan Cooper is an American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic,"

  • Alan Turing died

  • Steve Jobs

    learn more about him hereAmerican entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.

  • James gosling

    Java

  • Tim Berners-Lee

    inventor for the World Wide Web

  • Bill Gates

    learn more about him hereco-founded Microsoft

  • Edith Clarke died

  • Robert Morris

    created the first computer worm on accident

  • Leonard Klienrock

    Developed FORMAC

  • Linus Torvalds

    he is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel that became the most popular kernel for operating systems

  • Gary Thuerk

    "father of spam"

  • John Mauchly died

  • Philip Estridge died

  • J. Presper Eckert died

  • John Atanasoff died

  • Konrad Zuse died

  • Reynold Johnson died

  • Adam Osborne died

  • Anita Borg died

  • Jean Bartik died

  • Steve Jobs died

  • Ralph Baer died