| |  | Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating... |  | Adam Osborne (March 6, 1939 - March 18, 2003) was an American author, book and software publisher, and computer designer who founded several... |  | Howard Hathaway Aiken (March 8, 1900, Hoboken, New Jersey-March 14 1973, St. Louis, Missouri) was a pioneer in computing, being the primary... |  | Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing... |  | Dr. An Wang (February 7, 1920 - March 24, 1990) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang... |  | Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive... |  | Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a... |  | Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and... |  | John Backus
male, deceased
(San Francisco, ca, United States)
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language... |  | Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the... | |
