Topics: History : Pioneers
Babbage, Charles
He was born December 26th, 1791 in Teignmouth, Devonshire and died October 18th, 1871, London.
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Bell, Gordon
C. Gordon Bell, born 19 August 1934, is a computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corp., DEC, he designed several of the PDP series, later became Vice President of Engineering, and oversaw development of the VAX.
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Bricklin, Daniel
Daniel Bricklin was the co-inventor of the first spreadsheet program, called VisiCalc, with Bob Frankston.
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Dijkstra, Edsger
Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra. Born May 30, 1930 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Died August 6, 2002 Nuenen, the Netherlands.
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Eckert, John Presper
John Presper Eckert (1919-1995), an electrical engineer, worked with John W. Mauchly (1907-1980). They built the ENIAC (1941-1945), viewed by many as the first electronic digital computer.
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Engelbart, Douglas
Invented and lead development of groupware (SRI Augment system), word processing (display editing), outlining, hyperlinks, hyper-documents, graphical user interfaces, integrated text and graphics, windowing user interfaces (non-overlapping, tiled), two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces, the computer mouse, chording keyboards, and was director of Node 1 of the Internet (Node
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Flowers, Tommy
Tommy Flowers Born December 22, 1905 - died October 28, 1998.Creator of the world's first digital computer.
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Gates, Bill
Bill Gates is co-founder of Microsoft and the worlds richest man.
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Hopper, Grace Murray
Born on December 9, 1906 in New York City. Died January 1, 1992.In September 1991, she was awarded the National Medal of Technology, the nations highest honour in engineering and technology.
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Ingalls, Daniel
Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr. is a former researcher of Xerox PARC, and a pioneer of object-oriented computer programming.
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Jobs, Steve
Co-founder and CEO of Apple and Pixar. Born 1955 Los Altos CA.
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Kay, Alan
Early advocate of using graphics for computer user interfaces, and of using computers to educate children creatively (*NOT* by wrote memory via drillware), one of the creators of object-oriented programming, leader in the creation of Smalltalk and the personal computer.
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Kernighan, Brian
Co-creator, with Dennis Ritchie, of the Unix operating system and C programming language.
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Kildall, Gary
Born May 19th, 1942. Died 1994. The creator of the CP/M operating system and founder of Digital Research.
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Knuth, Donald
Dr. Donald Knuth, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University, is a seminal thinker and writer in programming, created the TeX markup language, Literate Programming, and the legendary landmark series of books 'The Art of Computer Programming'.
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Kurzweil, Raymond
Raymond C. Kurzweil is a pioneer in several areas of the computer industry involving mainly artificial intelligence (AI).
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Lampson, Butler
Butler Lampson is a pioneering computer and programming language designer, responsible for many innovative system designs and implementations.
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Lans, Håkan
HÃ¥kan Lans is an inventor from Sweden. He has invented several things including colour computer graphics (U.S.
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Lovelace, Ada
Lovelace, Ada (1815-1852)
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Mauchly, John
John W. Mauchly (1907-1980), a physicist, worked with John Presper Eckert (1919-1995). They built the ENIAC (1941-1945), viewed by many as the first electronic digital computer.
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McCarthy, John
Professor John McCarthy is a mathematician, computer scientist, and cognitive scientist; a pioneer in mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence (he created the term Artificial Intelligence), and computer programming languages: he invented (some say discovered) Lisp in 1958, one of the oldest and highest level languages, arguably the oldest language in active use today, and maybe the oldest high-level language overall, along with Fortran.
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Metcalfe, Robert
Robert Metcalfe (born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is a US computer scientist, best known for his work in computer networking (connecting computers to each other), over short distances, called Local Area Networks, LANs.He has two Bachelor's degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT: in electrical engineering; and industrial management, from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Miner, Jay
Jay Miner (1932-1994) is known as "Father of the Amiga" and he was the hardware designer behind the computer.
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Minsky, Marvin
One of the oldest leading figures in artificial intelligence research, considered by some the father of AI.
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Moore, Gordon
Gordon Moore cofounded Intel Corp., and is author of Moore's law, published in an article in 19 April 1965, Electronics Magazine.
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Muuss, Michael John
The architect of BRL-CAD, a substantial third-generation CSG solid modeling system available free of charge, and the author of ping and ttcp.
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Needham, Roger
Born 1935, died March, 2003.
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Nelson, Ted
This category is for sites about Ted Nelson, the creator of Xanadu. An early (failed) incarnation of hypertext.
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Neumann, John von
Born: 28 Dec 1903 in Budapest, HungaryDied: 8 Feb 1957 in Washington D.C., USA He built a solid framework for quantum mechanics, worked in game theory, was able to investigate spaces with continuously varying dimensions, and was one of the pioneers of computer science.
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Papert, Seymour
Main inventor of Logo programming language (Lisp for kids), and pioneer in using computers in education.
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Raskin, Jef
Jef Raskin, 9 March 1943 - 26 February 2005, was a computer scientist, cognitive psychology expert, and user interface pioneer.
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Ritchie, Dennis
Dennis Ritchie co-created Unix with Ken Thompson, created the C programming language, lead development of Plan 9, and leads development of Inferno.
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Simonyi, Charles
Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian born (10 September 1948) programmer and software developer, and Cold War refugee.
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Sinclair, Clive
British electronics pioneer, invented and sold one of the first electronic calculators, and early home computers.
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Stallman, Richard
In 1984, Richard Stallman founded the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and related GNU project (GNU's Not Unix).
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Sutherland, Ivan
Ivan Sutherland pioneered computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and programming languages, all at once, when in the early 1960s, he created the landmark program Sketchpad, viewed by many as the earliest constraint programming language.
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Tesler, Lawrence
Lawrence (Larry) G. Tesler, born 24 April 1945, is a computer scientist, working mainly on human-computer interaction.
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Weiser, Mark
Mark Weiser; July 23, 1952 - April 27, 1999, computer scientist, former chief technology officer at Xerox PARC, created (or discovered) and named the related ideas of Ubiquitous Computing, and Calm Technology.
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Wiener, Norbert
Born: 26 Nov 1894 in Columbia, Missouri, USADied: 18 March 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden
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Winograd, Terry
Terry Allen Winograd (24 February 1946) is a computer scientist. He has worked in many fields.
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Xerox PARC
The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, California, was home to many creators of modern personal and network computing.
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Zuse, Konrad
Konrad Zuse built the first functioning, freely programmable, binary based computer, the Z1, in 1938; and the first fully automatic computer, the Z3, in 1941, which he installed in his parents' living room in Berlin.
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