Individuals who have had an impact on the Evolution of Computing

He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI.

• Ada

  Lovelace

• Steve

  Wozniak

• Elon Musk

• Charles

  Babbage

chairman, founder and CEO of Facebook

• Mark

  Zuckerberg

• Bill Gates

• Hadi Partovi

• Grace

  Hopper

NASA mathematician who played a key role in numerous NASA missions during the Space Race,

• Katherine

  Johnson

• Grace

  Hopper

• Ada

  Lovelace

• Brendan

  Eich

Founder of Microsoft, one of the richest men in the world

• Steve

  Wozniak

• Elon Musk

• Charles

  Babbage

• Bill Gates

United States Navy rear admiral, helped develop COBOL -- one of the first high-level programming languages -- and invented the first compiler, a program that translates programming code to machine language.

• Ada Lovelace

• Grace Hooper

• Katherine Johnson

• Steve Wozniak