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The legends of the computing industry made huge technological advances often against the odds. Some names you will know from current news - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Alan Sugar - but computer history started much earlier and there are many pioneers you should know about.
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1 A L Samuel - AI and games pioneer
2 Ada Lovelace, the first programmer
3 Adam Osborne
4 Alan Kay
5 Alan Sugar - Amstrad and the CPC
6 An Wang
7 Bill Gates - before he was famous
8 Charles Babbage
9 Claude Shannon
10 Clive Sinclair
11 Dan Bricklin - inventor of the PC spreadsheet
12 Donald Knuth and the Art of Programming
13 Douglas Engelbart
14 Douglas Hartree
15 Edsger Dijkstra
16 Gary Kildall - CP/M, Digital Research and GEM
17 Gene Amdahl
18 Grace Hopper - The Mother of Cobol
19 Herman Hollerith and the punch card
20 Howard Aiken and the Harvard Mark I
21 Ivan Sutherland - father of graphics
22 Jay Forrester and Whirlwind
23 John Backus - the Father of Fortran
24 John Warnock - Father of PostScript
25 Kemeny & Kurtz, inventors of BASIC
 
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