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| x John Mauchly |
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ENIAC |
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial...
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| x J. Presper Eckert |
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ENIAC |
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in...
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| x Danny Hillis |
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Connection Machine |
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
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| Tinkertoy Tic-Tac-Toe Computer | |||
| x Ed Roberts |
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Altair 8800 |
Henry Edward "Ed" Roberts (September 13, 1941 – April 1, 2010) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and medical doctor who invented the first commercially successful personal computer in 1975. He is most often known as "the father of the personal...
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| x Philip Don Estridge | IBM PC |
Philip Donald Estridge (June 23, 1937 - August 2, 1985), known as Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry,...
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| x Burrell Smith | Macintosh |
Burrell Carver Smith (born December 16, 1955) is an American engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the motherboard (digital circuit board) for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired in February, 1979,...
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| x Bill Atkinson | Macintosh |
Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef...
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| x Jef Raskin |
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Canon Cat |
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943 – February 26, 2005) was an American human–computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B.S. 1964...
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| Macintosh 128K | |||
| x Steve Jobs |
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Macintosh |
Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the...
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| Macintosh 128K | |||
| x Jay Miner |
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Amiga |
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 – June 20, 1994) was a famous American integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips and as the "father of the Amiga". He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959.
Miner started in...
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| x Atari |
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Atari 260 ST |
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Infogrames Entertainment SA (IESA). Atari Interactive has in...
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| Atari MEGA STe | |||
| Atari ST | |||
| STacy | |||
| x Nintendo |
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Nintendo Co., Ltd. (任天堂株式会社, Nintendō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company...
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| x Sony |
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PlayStation 3 |
Sony Corporation (ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha) (TYO: 6758, NYSE: SNE), commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Kōnan Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It ranked 73 on the 2011 list of Fortune Global...
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| x Konrad Zuse |
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Z1 |
Konrad Zuse (German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 1910–1995) was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became...
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| x Dr. Wendell Sander | Apple III | ||
| x Tamiko Thiel | CM-2 | ||
| x Jory Bell | OQO 02 | ||
| x Bud Tribble | Macintosh |
Guy L. "Bud" Tribble, MD, PhD, is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Inc. Tribble served as the manager of the original Macintosh software development team where he helped to design the Mac OS and user interface. He was among the...
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| x Gunpei Yokoi |
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Game Boy line |
Gunpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei, September 10, 1941 – October 4, 1997), sometimes spelt Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer. He was a long-time Nintendo employee, creator of the Game Boy and Game & Watch handheld systems, and producer...
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| x Alan Turing |
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ACE |
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/ TEWR-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a...
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| x Jonathan Ive |
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MacBook Pro |
Sir Jonathan Paul "Jony" Ive, KBE (born February 1967) is a British designer and the senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the lead designer and conceptual mind behind Apple's products, including the iMac, MacBook Air, iPod,...
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| iMac G5 | |||
| Intel iMac | |||
| iPhone | |||
| x Kazuhiko Nishi | MSX |
Kazuhiko Nishi (西 和彦, Nishi Kazuhiko, born February 10, 1956 in Kobe, Japan) launched ASCII magazine. Gradually ASCII started to publish software solutions too. Later he become Bill Gates' friend and in charge of Microsoft's Far Eastern operations....
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| x Steve Chen | Cray X-MP |
Steve Chen (Chinese: 陳世卿; pinyin: Chén Shìqīng) (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China.
Chen holds a M.S....
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| x Brian Silverman | Tinkertoy Tic-Tac-Toe Computer | ||
| x Tom Kilburn | Manchester Mark I |
Tom Kilburn CBE, FRS (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams-Kilburn Tube and the world's first stored-program computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), while working...
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| x Frederic Calland Williams | Manchester Mark I |
Sir Frederic Calland Williams CBE, FRS (26 June 1911 Stockport – 11 August 1977 Manchester), known as 'Freddie Williams', was an English engineer.
Williams attended the University of Manchester, and received his doctorate in 1936 after studying at...
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| x Feng-hsiung Hsu | Deep Blue |
Feng-hsiung Hsu (Chinese: 許峰雄; pinyin: Xǔ Fēng Xióng; Cantonese: Heoi2 Fung1 Hung4) (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. His work...
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| x John Sculley | Apple Newton |
John Sculley (born April 6, 1939) is an American businessman. Sculley was vice-president (1970–1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977–1983), until he became CEO of Apple on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993. In May 1987, Sculley...
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| x Clifford Berry | Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) was an American inventor.
Clifford Berry was born in Gladbrook, Iowa to Fred Gordon Berry and Grace Strohm. He was the oldest of four children born to the couple: Clifford, Keith, Frederick,...
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| x John Vincent Atanasoff |
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Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
John Vincent Atanasoff (ataˈnasɔf; October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist and inventor.
The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer. His...
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| x University of Manchester |
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Atlas Computer |
The University of Manchester (informally known as Manchester University or Manchester) is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It was formed in October 2004 by the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester ...
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| x Shigeru Miyamoto |
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Wii |
Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂, Miyamoto Shigeru) (born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer and producer. Miyamoto was born and raised in Kyoto Prefecture; the natural surroundings of Kyoto inspired much of Miyamoto's later work.
He is...
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| x Maurice Vincent Wilkes |
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EDSAC |
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FRS, FREng, DFBCS (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor of the University...
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| Titan | |||
| x James H. Wilkinson |
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Pilot ACE |
James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.
Born in...
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| x John Cocke | IBM 801 |
John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."
He attended...
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| x Butler Lampson |
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D-Series Machines |
Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
After graduating from the Lawrenceville School (where in 2009 he was awarded the Aldo Leopold Award, also known as the Lawrenceville Medal, Lawrenceville's highest award to...
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| Xerox Alto | |||
| x Rick Dickinson |
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ZX Spectrum |
Rick Dickinson is a British industrial designer.
Dickinson graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) in 1979 with a First Class Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in Design for Industry. The "Design for Industry" degree was the...
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| x Richard Altwasser | ZX Spectrum | ||
| x Ken Thompson |
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Belle |
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson is notable for his work with the B programming...
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| x Steve Wozniak |
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Apple I |
Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak created the Apple I computer and co-created the Apple II computer...
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| x Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann |
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D4a | |
| x Michael Arrington |
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CrunchPad |
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Orange, California) is the founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines...
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| x Frank Soltis | System/38 |
Frank Gerald Soltis (born 1940), an American computer scientist, was IBM's Chief Scientist for the System i computers. Based on his PhD research, his pioneering architecture of technology-independent machine interfaces (TIMI) and single-level stores...
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| x Sony Computer Entertainment |
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PlayStation |
Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. is a major video game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a wholly owned subsidiary and part of the Consumer Products & Services Group of Sony. The company was established...
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