The Invention of the Computer

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    Came up with the concept and design of the first programmable computing device. Invented the Analytical Machine.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace

    Wrote the first computer program in the world working on Charles Babbage's Analytic Machine.
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    Developed the first modern computer. It was an attempt to solve the Entscheidungsproblem puzzle.
  • ENIAC Programmers

    ENIAC Programmers

    Six brilliant women who developed an understanding of ENIAC's inner workings and programmed it.
  • Mauchly and Eckert

    Mauchly and Eckert

    Invented the ENIAC, the world's first large-scale general-purpose electronic computer.
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper

    One of the first computer programmers to work on the Harvard Mark I.
  • Mark Dean

    Mark Dean

    Developed the ISA bus, and led a design team to make a one-gigahertz computer processor chip.