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Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage Summary
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. In 1812 Babbage helped found the Analytical Society, whose object was to introduce developments from the European continent into English mathematics. In 1816 he was
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart Summary
Douglas Engelbart was an American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware. Engelbart won the 1997 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “inspiring
Maurice Wilkes
Maurice Wilkes Summary
Maurice Wilkes was a British computer science pioneer who helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), the first full-size stored-program computer, and invented microprogramming. Wilkes became interested in electronics as a boy and studied that subject in his spare time
Steve Wozniak in 2014
Steve Wozniak Summary
Steve Wozniak is an American electronics engineer who cofounded, with Steve Jobs, Apple Computer and designed the Apple II, the first commercially successful personal computer. Wozniak—or “Woz,” as he is commonly known—is the son of an electrical engineer for the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company