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Charles Babbage
Inventor of the First Automatic Digital Computer. -
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace is considered the first computer programmer. Even though she wrote about a computer, the Analytical Engine, that was never built, she realized that the computer could follow a series of simple instructions, a program, to perform a complex calculation. -
ENIAC Programmers
The ENIAC programmers' work included the development of concepts like subroutines and nesting. Jean Bartik would later lead a team to turn the ENIAC into a stored program computer in the late 1940s. -
Mauchly and Eckert
Eckert and Mauchly have nonetheless been credited by history with inventing the ENIAC, the world's first large-scale general purpose electronic computer. -
Alan turing
he published a paper asking “can machines think?”. He detailed a procedure, later known as the Turing test, to determine whether a machine could imitate human conversation. -
Grace Hopper
one of the first computer programmers to work on the Harvard Mark I. She was also a United States Navy rear admiral, helped develop COBOL -- one of the first high-level programming languages -- and invented the first compiler, a program that translates programming code to machine language. -
Mark Dean
He developed the ISA bus, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip.