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computer pioneers

  • reynold b johnson

    reynold b johnson
    A long-time employee of IBM, Johnson is said to be the "father" of the disk drive read more about reynold
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    She invented key software technologies that paved the way for modern day computer languages.
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  • Ralph Baer

    Ralph Baer
    Creator of the Odyssey, the first gaming console
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  • Jean Bartik

    Jean Bartik
    One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer
  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Leonard Kleinrock
    Creator of the Queueing System: studying several performance parameters of computer systems
  • Adam Osborne

    Adam Osborne
    He was best known for creating the first portable computer.
  • Barbara Liskov

    Barbara Liskov
    She led the Venus operating system project, a small, low-cost and interactive timesharing system
  • Alan Kay

    Alan Kay
    He is one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces. His contributions have been recognized with the Charles Stark Draper Prize of the National Academy of Engineering[1] "for the vision, conception, and development of the first practical networked personal computers" the Alan. M. Turing Award from the Association of Computing Machinery "for pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming langua
  • Abhay Bhushan

    Abhay Bhushan
    Author of the File Transfer Protocol and the early versions of email protocols and major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture.
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  • Anita Borg

    Anita Borg
    Formed the institute for women and technology