Across
- 3. Hopper: Bugs she squashed, COBOL she crafted, a Navy admiral too.
- 4. Pascal: Triangle of numbers, a philosophical wager, and early calculating.
- 6. Marie Jacquard: Looms and logic, punched cards his legacy.
- 10. Wilhelm von Leibniz: Calculus contender, binary's early advocate.
- 11. W. Mauchly: ENIAC's other half, a computational duo.
- 13. Babbage: Difference Engine dreamer, father of analytical computing.
- 14. Turing: Codebreaker, AI pioneer, tragic hero.
- 15. von Neumann: Architecture bearing his name, a computing paradigm.
Down
- 1. Gates: From BASIC to billions, a software empire's face.
- 2. Kilby: Integrated circuit pioneer, miniaturization's start.
- 3. Boole: Logic's champion, where true and false hold sway.
- 5. Lovelace: Byron's daughter, envisioned computing beyond numbers.
- 6. Forrester: Whirlwind of memory, core memory he brought forth.
- 7. Aiken: Harvard's Mark I, a computing giant arose.
- 8. Moore: His law predicts chip progress, ever onward it goes.
- 9. Napier: Logarithm lord, easing calculations of yore.
- 11. Backus: FORTRAN's father, making programming less arcane.
- 12. Hollerith: From census to computation, punched cards his domain.
- 15. Prosper Eckert: ENIAC's co-creator, a computing dawn he saw.