Important Figures in Computer Science

Known as "The Father of Computers" developed plans for a Difference Engine and Analytical machine. The first digital, programmable computing machines.

• Mark Dean

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• Steve Jobs

She is considered one of the first computer programmers. Worked with Charles Babbage and expanded the use of algorithms beyond number calculations.

• Ada Lovelace

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Jean Bartik

• Alan Turing

He was the inventor of the world wide web. As well as the HTML language, http transfer protocols, and the first web browser.

• Grace Hopper

• Charles Babbage

• John Mauchly & Presper Eckert

• Tim Berners-Lee

Father of modern computing. He developed a machine capable of calculating any number. Which was used to break the Enigma machine during WWII.

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• John Mauchly & Presper Eckert

• Tim Berners-Lee

Designed and created ENIAC, first electronic, digital, programmable computer for the US during WWII.

• John Mauchly & Presper Eckert

• Alan Turing

• Jean Bartik

• Tim Berners-Lee

Her techniques laid the foundation for all future computer programming. She was one of the first computer programmers tasked with programming ENIAC.

• Grace Hopper

• Jean Bartik

• Mark Dean

• Steve Jobs

Co-Founder of Apple Computers.

• Steve Jobs

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Charles Babbage

• Ada Lovelace

Trailblazing Computer Scientist for the US Navy and Vassar College. She helped develop UNIVAC, the second commercial computer.

• Charles Babbage

• Mark Dean

• Ada Lovelace

• Grace Hopper

Inventor and engineer that worked for IBM and developed innovations like the color PC monitor and system bus. This allowed printers and monitors be plugged directly into computers.

• Mark Dean

• Charles Babbage

• Alan Turing

• John Mauchly & Presper Eckert