Last Update 4/29/2022
- Allen, Paul
- Co-founder of Microsoft
- Andreessen, Marc
- Co-creator of Mosaic in 1993.
- Babbage, Charles
- Father of Computing. Created the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, the first programmable computer. Designed the first printer.
- Baran, Paul
- Along with others at RAND, wrote an early paper on packet switching for secure voice communications. This took place at the same time as others were working on packet switching for data.
- Bartik, Jean Jennings
- One of the original ENIAC programmers
- Baudot, Emile
- Created the 5-bit Baudot code which was eventually replaced by ASCII and then by UTF-8.
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Father of the World Wide Web, created an early web browser (among other things).
- Bilas, Frances
- One of the original ENIAC programmers
- Bina, Eric
- Co-createor of Mosaic in 1993.
- Bluetooth, Harold
- A medieval king of Denmark. The Bluetooth standard is named after him.
- Blolotsky, Gloria Gordon
- An early ENIAC programmer
- Boole, George
- Developed the prototype of Boolean logic. Sometimes considered to be a founder of computer science.
- Borg, Anita
- Worked with memory systems and email communications, among other areas. Founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
- Brin, Sergey
- Co-founder of Google
- Cailliau, Robert
- Helped Tim Berners-Lee create a revision of what became the web
- Cerf, Vinton
- Father of the Internet
- Clark, Arthur C.
- Science fiction author who predicted technology changes including geostationary satellites
- Codd, Edgar F. "Ted"
- Invented the relational database.
- Corbato, Fernando "Corby
- Invented passwords
- Davies, Donald
- co-inventor of packet switching
- Davis, Donald
- Along with Roger Scantlebury, presented a 1967 paper on packet switching. These two met Lawrence G. Roberts at that conference.
- Dominguez, Ricardo
- Co-founded the Electronic Disturbance Theater (with Stefan Wray). In 10/1998, the EDT launched what might be the first electronic act against a US target.
- Eckert, J. Presper
- Worked with Mauchly to design ENIAC
- Ellison, Larry
- Founder of Oracle
- Englebart, Douglas
- Created the mouse, as well as contributing to other technologies that later formed the graphical user interface
- Estridge, Philip Don
- Led the development of the IBM PC.
- Flowers, Tommy
- Created Colossus, the first electronic programmable computer.
- Fox, Martha Lane
- Along with Brent Hoberman, created lastminute.com in 1998 which raised the profile of e-commerce
- Gates, Bill
- Co-founder of Microsoft
- Gerston, Ester
- An early ENIAC programmer
- Gosling, James
- Author of the Java programming language
- Graunt, John
- Father of demography, contributed to the development of big data
- Gruber, John
- Created the Markdown formatting syntax
- Hamilton, Margaret
- Director of a division at MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed flight software for the Apollo space program
- Hollerith, Herman
- Developed an electromechanical tabulating machine that used punched cards
- Hoberman, Brent
- Along with Martha Lane Fox, created lastminute.com in 1998 which raised the profile of e-commerce
- Hopper, Grace
- Widely known for coining the term "debugging." Created COBOL and the first working compiler.
- Huffman, David A.
- Known for Huffman coding.
- Jobs, Steve
- Co-founder of Apple
- Joy, Bill
- Co-founder of Sun Microsystems
- Kahn, Bob
- Played a large role in developing the overall ARPAnet archticture. In addition, Kahn developed an early version of what we now know as TCP/IP.
- Kleinrock, Leonard
- Published the first paper on packet switching theory (July 1961). He published a book on this in 1964.
- Lichterman, Ruth
- One of the original ENIAC programmers
- Licklider, J.C.R.
- Envisioned the "Galactic Network" concept in 1962. He discussed this with a group of people; the idea is very similar to the Internet.
- Lovelace, Ada
- The first programmer
- Marcotte, Ethan
- Provided a definition of Responsive Web Design
- Mauchly, John
- Worked with Eckert to design ENIAC
- McNulty, Kay
- One of the original ENIAC programmers
- Merrill, Thomas
- Along with Lawrence G.Roberts, built the first wide-area computer network in 1965. Connected two computers, one in Massachusetts and one in California with a telephone line.
- Metcalfe, Bob
- Ethernet
- Olsen, Ken
- Founder of DEC, who invented the minicomputer
- Page, Larry
- Co-founder of Google
- Rieger, Bryan
- "The absence of support for media queries is in fact the first media query."
- Ritchie, Dennis
- Author of the C programming language
- Roberts, Lawrence G.
- Along with Thomas Merrill, built the first wide-area computer network in 1965. Connected two computers, one in Massachusetts and one in California with a telephone line. In 1966 went to DARPA and created plan for ARPAnet. This was published in 1967.
- Scantlebury, Roger
- Along with Donald Davis, presented a 1967 paper on packet switching. These two met Lawrence G. Roberts at that conference.
- Sharp, Remy
- Created the HTML5 Shim / Shiv.
- Shirley, Steve
- Early champion of women in IT, founder of Xansa
- Shneiderman, Ben
- Selected the color blue for hyperlinks based upon earlier work
- Sinclair, Clive
- Home computer visionary
- Snyder, Betty
- One of the original ENIAC programmers
- Stallman, Richard
- Founder of the GNU Project
- Thompson, Ken
- Co-creator of Unix
- Tomlinson, Ray
- (1971) invented email and selected the @ symbol. See https://www.internethalloffame.org/official-biography-raymond-tomlinson for details. Note: Shiva Ayyadurai claims to have invented email in 1978. I suggest searching the Internet and reading for history for yourself. Note the dates.
- Torvalds, Linus
- Creater of Linux OS
- Turing, Alan
- Created the Turing Test, which is a method used to test artificial intelligence
- Van Rossum, Guido
- Author of the Python language
- von Neumann, John
- Developed MANIAC (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer)
- Wescoff, Marlyn
- One of the original ENIAC programmers
- Wozniak, Steve
- Co-founder of Apple
- Wray, Stefan
- Co-founded the Electronic Disturbance Theater (with Ricardo Dominguez). In 10/1998, the EDT launched what might be the first electronic act against a US target.
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References
Multiple textbooks and websites: the following list is NOT comprehensive