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Charles Babbage 1791 - 1871 1815 - 1852 1815 - 1864 Babbage is often regarded as Lovelace is credited with the Boole invented the prototype the “Father of Computing”. title “the first ”. of what is now called Boolean He created the first Difference She worked with Charles , which is the basis of the Engine, the first programmable Babbage’s to modern digital computer. computer in history and even develop what is recognised as Boole is often regarded in drew up plans for the first the first intended to hindsight as a founder of the printer. Babbage died before be processed by a . field of . any of his designs could be She was the daughter of poet Boolean logic is based around the principle of AND, OR completed. . and NOT.

Tommy Flowers 1905 - 1998 1906 - 1992 1912 - 1954 Flowers created the worlds Hopper was a computer Turing is most famous for first electronic programmable and US Navy Admiral. helping break the German computer - Colossus. She was the first to use the Enigma Code during WW2. He Colossus was used by British term “debugging” for fixing created the , a machine codebreaker in WW2 to computer problems. Hopper to decipher the Enigma code. decipher German code developed the first working He came up with the Turing messages. His work was not compiler and developed Test, a method to test artificial acknowledged until the 1970s. COBOL, a programming intelligence. language still used today.

Edgar F. Codd Douglas Englebart David A. Huffman 1923 - 2003 1925 - 2013 1925 - 1999 Codd invented the relational Englebart is credited with Huffman was a pioneer in database while working inventing the first computer computer science, known for IBM. mouse, a wooden box with two for his Huffman coding. metal wheels in it. He and his He revolutionised the way in team also created bit-mapped He was also one of the which data was stored screens, hypertext and some pioneers in the field of and retrieved. precursors to the graphical mathematical origami. user interface (GUI).

Margaret Hamilton Philip Don Estridge 1936 - Present 1937 - 1985 1950 - Present Hamilton is an American Estridge led the development Wozniak is best known as the , systems of the IBM PC, arguably the co-founder of Apple. Wozniak engineer, and business owner. most important computer in single-handedly invented both She was Director of the the history of . the Apple I and Apple II Engineering Division It’s the creation of this that computers in the 1970s which of the MIT Instrumentation led to the types of computers contributed significantly to the Laboratory, which developed we have today. It was a microcomputer revolution. on-board flight software for revolutionary design using the Apollo space program. off-the-shelf parts and allowed for open architecture.

Bill Gates Steve Jobs Tim Berners-Lee 1955 - Present 1955 - 2011 1955 - Present Gates is best known for Jobs is best known as the Berners-Lee is an engineer and founding Microsoft. Microsoft co-founder, chairman and computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World created Windows - the most CEO of Apple. Under Job’s Wide Web. He made a successful guidance, the company proposal for an information ever, and used by the majority pioneered a series of management system in March of people the world over. he is revolutionary technologies 1989 and implemented the first now one of the richest men in including the Mac, iPhone successful communication the world with a net worth of and iPad. Jobs was also the between a HTTP client and over $91 Billion. co-founder of Pixar. server via the in mid-November the same year.

Guido Van Rossum Sergey Brin 1956 - Present 1969 - Present 1973 - Present Van Rossum is best known as Torvalds is a Finnish-American Brin is a Russian-born the author of the Python software engineer who is the American computer scientist language. He has also worked creator, and for a long time, and internet entrepreneur. for Google and Dropbox. principal developer of the Together with Larry Page, he Linux kernel, which became co-founded Google. the kernel for operating systems such as the Linux operating system, Android, and Chrome OS. www.ncitech.co.uk | 01326 379 497 | [email protected]