Notable People in the History of Computers

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Across
  1. 2. Led the IBM team that developed FORTRAN, the first high-level language.
  2. 4. German engineer who pioneered binary-based computing.
  3. 8. Created the theoretical Turing Machine model of computation.
  4. 10. Co-founder of Microsoft, helped popularize personal computing.
  5. 11. Often called the 'father of the computer’ for designing the Analytical Engine.
  6. 12. Co-founded Apple and introduced the Macintosh computer.
  7. 13. Designed Pascal, a structured programming language.
  8. 15. Built the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator.
  9. 16. Mathematician who created Boolean algebra, vital to computer logic.
  10. 19. Co-creator of the C programming language.
  11. 20. Invented C++, an extension of the C programming language.
Down
  1. 1. Created the loom that used punched cards to control patterns.
  2. 3. Regarded as the first programmer.
  3. 5. Invented the computer mouse.
  4. 6. Developed the stored-program architecture still used today.
  5. 7. Built the EDSAC, the first practical stored-program computer.
  6. 9. Created the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems.
  7. 14. Developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.
  8. 17. Developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), an early electronic digital computer.
  9. 18. Designed the Harvard Mark I, one of the first large-scale automatic digital computers.