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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 Roberts (born 1942) is the founder and former president of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which built the Altair 8800, one of the very first hobbyist personal computers.
He grew up in Miami, Florida, where he...
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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 in upstate New York) is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired in February, 1979, initially as...
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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 Computer in the late 1970s.
Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B...
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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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| x Jay Miner |
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Amiga |
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 – June 20, 1994), was a famous 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 the...
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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 multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small...
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| x Sony |
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PlayStation 3 |
Sony Corporation (commonly referred to as Sony) (Japanese: ソニー株式会社, Sonī Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 6758) is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue...
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| x Konrad Zuse |
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Z1 |
Konrad Zuse (pronounced [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 Berlin - 18 December 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in...
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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, also spelled Gumpei Yokoi (横井 軍平, Yokoi Gunpei) (September 10, 1941–October 4, 1997), was a long-time Nintendo employee, creator of the Game Boy, and producer of the long-running Metroid series.
Gunpei Yokoi began working at Nintendo...
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| x Alan Turing |
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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (pronounced /ˈtjʊərɪŋ/, TYOOR-ing; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was influential in the development of computer science and provided an...
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| x Jonathan Ive |
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MacBook Pro |
Jonathan Paul Ive, CBE (born February, 1967) is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum and titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook,...
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| x Kazuhiko Nishi | MSX |
Kazuhiko Nishi (西 和彦 ,Nishi Kazuhiko, born February 10, 1956 in Kobe, Japan) worked for Microsoft during the 1980s as Vice President of the Far East operations.
In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to ASCII Corporation to...
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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 (August 11, 1921 - January 17, 2001) was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams Tube and the first stored-program computer in the world, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), while working at...
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| x Frederic Calland Williams | Manchester Mark I |
Sir Frederic Calland Williams (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 Magdalen...
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| x Feng-hsiung Hsu |
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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 |
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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. Sculley is currently...
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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 (IPA: [ata'nasɔf]) (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American physicist. The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, a special...
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| x University of Manchester |
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Atlas Computer |
The University of Manchester, ranked as high as 26 worldwide in 2009 after the merger it went through , is a "red brick" civic university located in Manchester, England. It is a member of the Russell Group of large research-intensive universities...
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| x Shigeru Miyamoto |
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Wii |
Shigeru Miyamoto (宮本 茂, Miyamoto Shigeru) (born November 16, 1952 in Sonobe cho, Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese video game designer and producer who has been called the "father of modern video games" and "the Walt Disney of electronic gaming" for...
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| x Maurice Vincent Wilkes |
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EDSAC |
Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes FREng FRS (born June 26, 1913) is a British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing.
Wilkes was born in Dudley, Staffordshire, England and read Mathematics at St. John's College,...
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| Titan | |||
| x James H. Wilkinson |
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Pilot ACE |
James Hardy Wilkinson (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 Strood,...
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| x John Cocke |
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IBM 801 |
John Cocke (May 30, 1925 – July 16, 2002) was an American computer scientist recognised 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 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
After graduating from the Lawrenceville School, Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer...
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| Xerox Alto | |||
| x Rick Dickinson |
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ZX Spectrum |
Rick Dickinson was the in-house industrial designer of Sinclair Research Ltd. In 1986, he founded Dickinson Associates, an industrial design consultancy.
He designed the ZX80 and ZX81 home computers, including the touch-sensitive keyboard, as well...
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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 Thompson (or simply ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix...
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| x Steve Wozniak |
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Apple I |
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing...
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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 an entrepreneur and founder/co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere....
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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 Ph.D. research, his pioneering architecture of technology-independent machine interface (TIMI) and single-level store...
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