Computing Pioneers Cards
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Norman Abramson Arthur C Clark Created the frst wireless local area A popular science-fction writer network, allowing data to be who consistently predicted how transmitted using radio signals. technology would change the world. Charles Babbage Ted Codd The creator of the frst mechanical An English computer scientist who computer in 1822. His 'Difference created a set of relational database Engine' could compute several sets of rules, which helped others to store numbers and print the results. data using simple rows and tables. Tim Berners-Lee Marty Cooper Created the world wide web and the The inventor of the mobile phone, frst web browser, allowing users to allowing people to make a call communicate with one another without being tethered to a wall. instantly by computer. Jeff Bezos The founder and chief executive Douglas Engelbart officer of Amazon, which began by Worked with Bill English at the selling books online. The company Stanford Research Institute and now sells clothes, toys, e-books and invented the computer mouse. many other kinds of products. Tommy Flowers Nathaniel Borenstein Developed Colossus, the frst electric The inventor of the email attachment, programmable computer, to help allowing users to share fles by British code breakers read encrypted attaching them to email messages. German messages. www.teachingideas.co.uk © Images: © ThinkStock Bill Gates Susan Kare Joint founder of the world's biggest Worked at Apple and Microsoft, software company, Microsoft, which improving user interfaces and creates the Windows operating making them easier to use and system and Office programs. understand. James Gosling Martha Lane Fox Led the development of the Java One of the creators of programming language, which Lastminute.com, which raised the allowed programs to be used in public's early awareness of different devices without having to e-commerce. be changed for each one. Gerald A. Lawson Grace Hopper Created the frst cartridge-based The 'Queen of Software' who helped game system, allowing users to to invent some of the early English- switch and play different games on language programming languages. one machine. Mary Lou Jepsen Ada Lovelace Co-founder of One Laptop Per Child, Created the world's frst computer an organisation that aims to provide algorithm (even though computers children around the world with didn't exist at the time) when she affordable notebook computers. helped Charles Babbage. Steve Jobs Dr. Fujio Masuoka Founded Apple (with Steve Wozniak), The inventor of fash memory, which which created the frst PC with a doesn't lose data when the power is graphical user interface, the iPod, turned off. iPhone and iPad. www.teachingideas.co.uk © Images: © ThinkStock Marissa Mayer Richard Stallman Google's frst female engineer, who The founder of the GNU project, helped with the development of which aims to give users the freedom Google Search, Google Maps and to run, copy, share, change and Gmail. She later became the improve the software. President and CEO of Yahoo! Linus Torvalds Robert Metcalfe The creator of Linux (an open source The inventor of Ethernet which operating system) which encourages allows users to transmit huge open standards in technology. This amounts of data. means that the code is open to the public, who can share and change it. Alan Turing Larry Page and Sergey Brin The 'father of computer science' who Founders of Google, developed the Turing Machine. This whose products include search, device was the foundation for ideas maps, social networking, cloud about computing. It printed symbols storage and office tools. on paper, in a similar way to a person following a sequence of instructions. Mark Zuckerberg Henry Edward Roberts An American computer programmer, Released the Altair 8800, one of the who was one of the fve co-founders frst popular personal computers. of the popular social networking site Facebook. ‘Steve' Shirley Konrad Zuse Dame Stephanie Shirley is a Created the Z1, the frst successful businesswoman who programmable computer, in his created new opportunities parents' living room. It read for women to work in the instructions from 35mm flm, but it technology industry. didn’t work very well. www.teachingideas.co.uk © Images: © ThinkStock.