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Douglas Engelbart
Was a pioneer in the areas of human-computer interaction, hypertext, networking and GUIs, his computer mouse invention was patented in 1970
calculating clock
Wilhelm Schickard invented the first gear-driven calculating machine. 1623
Ada Byron Or Countess Lady Lovelace
detailed sequences of instructions she had prepared for the Analytic Engine. Ada invented the subroutine and was the first to recognize the importance of looping. First computer programmer.
Napier Bones
invented logarithms. Logarithm values were carved on ivory sticks. 1617
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
All-electronic (that is, no gears, cams, belts, shafts, etc.) digital computer that could solve 29 simultaneous equations with 29 unknowns. 1941
Abacus
An early aid for mathematical computations. Aids the memory of the human performing the calculation. 2700 BC
Pascaline
Blaise Pascl invented a gear-driven one-function calculator (addition) at the young age of 19 1642
Colossus
Built during World War II by Britain for the purpose of breaking the cryptographic codes used by Germany
Difference Engine Analytic Engine
Charles Babbage was proposing a steam driven calculating machine the size of a room to calculate numeric tables in ocean navigation. 1822
Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers
Harvard Mark I
Computer built as a partnership between Harvard and IBM. This was the first programmable digital computer made in the U.S. 1944
Gary Kildall
Developed the CP/M operating system, a clone of which, QDOS, was licensed by IBM and became PC-DOS.
Leonardo da Vinci
Drawings of gear-driven calculating machines 1452-1519
Marcian "Ted" Hoff
Employee #12 at Intel, inventor of the microprocessor
Alan Turing
Father of Computer Science His theoretical Machine—described in 1936—provided a blueprint for what would eventually become the digital computer.
Ray Tomlinson
Father of E-mail
Vint Cerf
Father of the Internet
Ward Cunningham
Father of the Wiki
UNIVAC
First commercial (mass produced) computer. First computer to employ magnetic tape. Predicted results of 1952 elections. 1950's
ENIAC
Forefather of today's all-electronic digital computers. Invented by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of University of Pennsylvania 1943-1945
Grace Hopper
Found the first computer "bug" found in the Harvard Mark 1=I
Z1, Z2, Z3
German Konrad Zuse built a sequence of general purpose computers in Nazi Germany 1936-1941
Hollerith desk
Herman Hollerith adopted Jacquard's punched cards for the purpose of computation. Utilizized in the 1890 US Census. 1890
Tabulating Machine Company
Hollerith's company that would eventually become International Business Machines or IBM
James Gosling
Invented the Java programming language in 1994 and implemented the first Java compiler.
Tim Berners Lee
Inventor of World Wide Web
Jacquard's Loom
Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a power loom that could base its weave (and hence the design on the fabric) upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden cards 1801
Gary Starkweather
The laser printer came into being when this person modified a Xerox copy machine.
