Computer Science 201 Final Exam
Jack St Clair Kilby and Robert Noyce
American electrical engineers who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958.
Herman Hollerith
An American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting.
George Boole
Best known as the author of The Laws of Thought which contains Boolean algebra.
James Gosling
Best known as the father of the Java programming language
John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz
Best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964.
Charles Babbage
Considered by some to be a "father of the computer" credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs
Brendan Eich
Creator of the JavaScript programming language.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.
Ken Thompson
Designed and implemented the original Unix operating system
John Backus
Directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form, a widely used notation to define formal language syntax
Dennis Ritchie
He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system
Tony Hoare
He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960.
Grace Hopper
Invented the first compiler for a computer programming language
Richard Stallman
Launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.
Alan Turing
Model of a general purpose computer. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.
John von Neumann
The inventor, in 1945, of the merge sort algorithm, in which the first and second halves of an array are each sorted recursively and then merged
William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain
The inventors of the transistor
Claude Shannon
Well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937,
Ted Hoff
one of the inventors of the microprocessor
