Computer history
People tagged with Computer history.
23 profiles
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Konrad Zuse
German engineer who built the first working programmable computer
1910 – 1995
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Alan Turing
Mathematician who founded computer science and helped break the Enigma code
1912 – 1954
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John Mauchly
Physicist who conceived ENIAC and co-founded the first computer company
1907 – 1980
Technology
Gene Amdahl
IBM System/360 architect and author of Amdahl’s law
1922 – 2015
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John von Neumann
Hungarian-American mathematician who defined the architecture of modern computers
1903 – 1957
Technology
Thomas J. Watson
Salesman who built IBM into a business-machine giant
1874 – 1956
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Maurice Wilkes
British computer pioneer who built EDSAC, one of the first stored-program computers
1913 – 2010
Technology
J. Presper Eckert
Co-inventor of ENIAC and UNIVAC, the first general-purpose electronic computers in the US
1919 – 1995
Technology
Herman Hollerith
Inventor of the punched-card tabulating machine and founder of a company that became IBM
1860 – 1929
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Charles Babbage
Victorian mathematician who designed the first programmable mechanical computer
1791 – 1871
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Ken Olsen
Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, pioneer of the minicomputer
1926 – 2011
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John Atanasoff
Physicist who built the first electronic digital computing device
1903 – 1995
Technology
Wesley A. Clark
Engineer who designed the LINC, an early personal computer
1927 – 2016
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Vannevar Bush
Engineer who led US wartime science and imagined the “memex”, a precursor of the web
1890 – 1974
Technology
Tommy Flowers
Post Office engineer who built Colossus, the first programmable electronic computer
1905 – 1998
Technology
Thomas J. Watson Jr.
IBM president who led the company into the computer age
1914 – 1993
Technology
Seymour Cray
Father of supercomputing and founder of Cray Research
1925 – 1996
Jay Forrester
MIT engineer who invented magnetic-core memory and founded system dynamics
1918 – 2016
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Howard Aiken
Harvard physicist who conceived the Harvard Mark I computer
1900 – 1973
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Frank Rosenblatt
Psychologist who invented the perceptron, an early learning neural network
1928 – 1971
Technology
An Wang
Chinese-American inventor of core-memory technology and founder of Wang Laboratories
1920 – 1990
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Ada Lovelace
Mathematician often regarded as the first computer programmer
1815 – 1852
Technology
Gordon Bell
DEC engineer who designed the PDP minicomputers and the VAX
1934 – 2024