Computer pioneers

John Vincent Atanasoff

Jun 15, 1903

• invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s .
• His special-purpose machine has come to be called the Atanasoff–Berry Computer.

George Stibitz

Apr 30, 1904

• The first computer programer.
• He received his bachelor's degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, his master's degree from Union College in 1927, and his Ph.D. in mathematical physics in 1930 from Cornell University.

Reynold B. Johnson

Jul 16, 1906

• father of the disk drive.
• Other inventions include automatic test scoring equipment and the videocassette tape.

Konrad Zuse

Jun 22, 1910

*invented the world's first programmable computer.
* Zuse was also noted for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process-controlled computer.

Alan Turing

Jun 27, 1912

• Was a wartime code breaker and mathmatician *Director Morten Tyldum made a movie about Alan Turing called The Imitation Game, Benedict Cumberbatch played Alan Turing.

Ralph Baer

Mar 8, 1922

• Baer was a German-born American video game developer, inventor, and engineer, and was known as The Father of Video Games.
• he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for his groundbreaking and pioneering creation.

Leonard Kleinrock

Jun 13, 1934

• A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
• graduated from the noted Bronx High School of Science in 1951.

Philip Don Estridge

Jun 23, 1937

• led development of the original IBM Personal Computer.
• He completed a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Florida.

Nolan Bushnell

Feb 5, 1943

• created the ATARI
• Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame

Al Alcorn

Jan 1, 1948

• Created pong
• attended the University of California

Steve Wozniak

Aug 11, 1950

• co-founded Apple Computer
• single-handedly designed both the Apple I and Apple II computers in the late 1970s.

Steve Jobs

Feb 24, 1955

*Created Apple
*Dropped out of college

Tim BernersLee

Jun 8, 1955

• the inventor of the World Wide Web
  • His british

Bill Gates

Oct 28, 1955

*Prgramed Microsoft foundation
* Left Harvar his Jr. year

Robert Tappan Morris

Nov 8, 1965

• best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988
• considered the first computer worm on the Internet