History of Computing - People

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  1. 2. Considered one of the fathers of modern computing because of his theories about computers and breaking ENIGMA with his bombes
  2. 3. An inventors of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer
  3. 7. Created early computers in pre- and post-war Germany, isolated from other ideas
  4. 9. Judge who placed the invention of the computer into the public domain instead of only under Sperry Rand's patent for UNIVAC
  5. 11. Creator of the computer mouse
  6. 15. Famous mathematician who joined the ENIAC team as a consultant and wrote the "First Draft" among other reports about computer design. Heavily influenced the EDVAC and inspired modern computer design
  7. 16. Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, which made minicomputers
  8. 17. Created CLU programming language
  9. 20. A developer of Unix OS
  10. 22. Director of the Xerox PARC research team
  11. 24. Created FORTRAN at IBM
  12. 26. Created LISP programming language and promoted timesharing
  13. 29. Created the Differential Analyzer, an early analog computer
  14. 30. Developer of CTSS at MIT
  15. 31. Popularized high-level programming; worked on programming the Mark 1 computer at Harvard; created compilers such as the A-0 and B-0; created the English-like syntax of COBOL
  16. 32. Leader of Project Whirlwind, the first interactive computer
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  1. 1. Widely regarded as the first computer programmer after writing notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine
  2. 4. An army officer who helped secure funding for the ENIAC
  3. 5. Designed the Harvard Mark 1, an early electromechanical computer for IBM
  4. 6. Created a law that said "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"
  5. 8. A developer of Unix OS
  6. 10. Physicist at Cambridge University who created the EDSAC
  7. 12. A creator of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, an electromechanical computer
  8. 13. Designed a new type of memory storage, a cathode-ray tube named after him. Built the Manchester Baby with Max Newman.
  9. 14. A developer of BASIC programming language
  10. 18. Creator of Smalltalk programming language and object-oriented programming
  11. 19. Designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, neither of which were completely built in his lifetime
  12. 21. Inventor of the Ethernet
  13. 23. Creator of ALOHAnet, the first wireless computer network
  14. 25. Inventors of the integrated circuit with Jack Kilby; later went to co-found Intel Corporation with Gordon Moore
  15. 27. Invented the tabulating machine for the 1890 census; his company would later become IBM
  16. 28. A creator of the TCP/IP